Description:
Island is a series of black and white photographs organised in a geometric shapes on the walls in the Social Service Centre. Tallaght. In 1996 Tallaght was a growing suburb or ‘New Town’ to the west of Dublin City, surrounded by the Dublin Mountains. The work explores the relationship between the natural environment of the mountains and the structure of the Social Service Centre, creating a contrast between the organic forms or materials found on the mountain and the geometry or structure of the building. The photographs depict, represent and document the surface of the mountains (the ground covered while walking), the terrain is mapped through its interpretation in photographic form. The modular or geometric structure used to organize the photographs again creates a contrast with the organic forms they represent.
'The work records the surface of the mountains, there is a direct relationship here between the mountain surface, representation as surface and the surface or wall on which the work is mounted. The photographs articulate the wall or space they occupy, physically becoming or creating an Island in the Social Service Center, an imaginative leap, a window that creates an alternative to the space in which it exists.' Martin Yelverton
Artist Biography:
Martin Yelverton received
a Diploma for Art and Design Education, National College of Art and Design 1995 and graduated with a
Degree in Fine Art, from the National College of Art and Design in 1990.
He had also previously received a Diploma Visual Communications from the Limerick School of Art and Design, 1984.
Exhibitions
include; Video Invidious Arthouse, Dublin (1999), EV+A, Limerick (1984, 1989, 1990, 1993, 1995, 1988), Confrontations RHA, Dublin
(1997), Flux touring exhibition, various art centres in Ireland
and London (1997), Arts Council Exhibition Space, Dublin (1996), Waiting Spaces Critical Access, Dublin
(1996), Response Irish Life Center, Dublin (1995) Iontas, Sligo Art Gallery (1991), NCAD Degree Show
(1990). Yelverton has received Arts Council Grants and Awards annually from 1994 to 1997 and an EV+A Painting Award in 1984.
Currently in 2009/2010 Martin Yelverton is currently teaching art and studying for a Masters in Visual Arts Education at the National College of Art and Design,
Commissioner Type:
Dept. Social and Family Affairs
Commissioner:
Department of Social and Family Affairs
Programme:
None
Funding:
Department of Social and Family Affairs
Budget Range:
Unknown