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Ceramic boat named after a historic site a few miles from my studio near Ballyferriter, Dingle, Co.Kerry.. Dún an Óir means “Fortress of gold”.
In 1578 a ship on the way from Canada and laden with tons of what they thought was gold ore was wrecked here, and gave the name to the site. The stones turned out be Iron Pyrite so no gold, but the black stones with golden glimmer might still be found in the seabed here.. Two years later this very site became famous for a horrific massacre of 600 people during the Second Desmond Rebellion.
As in the Canadian golden stones, the shimmer in the glaze on my ceramic boat is created by Iron, not gold💛
Yellow Mini 55 x 65 x 90 mm €35
Ceramic Boat with silky matte yellow glaze
Ceramic wall piece, imprinted in high-relief with searipple pattern.
Bronze cast. Edition of 9.
1/9 with copper patina. Work inspired by 100 year old shipwreck in Waterville Bay, the Danish schooner “Eliezer”, and the Nordic mythology attached to the sea god of Njord and his heavenly ship-home called Nóatún.
Bronze cast. Edition of 9. 2/9 with bronze patina.
Bronze cast with copper patina.
1/9 features copper patina.
Representation of creative spirits of Dingle. I used imagery from Scandinavian Bronze-age rock art, interpreted into three dimensional form. Ceramic high fired sculpture with stain and oxides.
Ceramic figurine sculpture, stoneware clay with yellow and transparent matte glaze.
Ceramic sculpture with stoneware glaze
Wall hanging Relief imprint of 200 year old rock art from Clogher Beach, Co. Kerry. White stoneware with red Iron Oxide and coloured stains.
“Sound of the Sea” is a visualisation of the sound of millions of tiny bubbles reaching the surface of the water – which is what makes the sound we know as the sound of the sea! Porcelain clay, thrown on the wheel, altered in shape and carefully carved. Glazed with transparent glaze and fired to 1280C.
Porcelain imprrint of section of sand-ripple. Glazed with blue crystal glaze. Wall mounted.
A báidín inspired by poetry:”May there come across the waters, A path of yellow moonlight, To bring you safely home” an excerpt from “Beannacht” by John O’Donoghue.
White stoneware clay. Thrown and altered. Double glazed and fired to 1280C.
“Eclipse” with a matte stoneware glaze in charcoal and blue. This ceramic piece has been constructed by sculpting and combining thrown and pressmoulded elements into a boat-like composition. It features a sea-rippe imprint in the centre accentuated by the pooling glaze.
Searipple plate, with imprint of the seabed of Béal Bán Beach, Kerry, Ireland. It has been glazed with a shiny green transparent glaze, and fired up to stoneware temperature of 1280C.
Mirror Ripple series. The translucent blue glaze has been applied thickly and during the firing it has run down to pool in the completely level base, creating a mirror for the ripple imprinted sides. White stoneware clay fired to 1280C.
“Arrival” €450 12 x 20 x 35.5cm
Stoneware ceramic boat with sand ripples inside the base. Glazed in brown/blue/grey tones that accentuate the relief patterns in the surface. Made by a combination of throwing, press-moulding and slab-building techniques.