From Altered Light - Padraig Spillane

From Altered Light - Padraig Spillane
Digital Print
34.5cm x 52cm

Pádraig Spillane works with photography, appropriation and object-based assemblages. He explores associations and interplays in imagery with the affects that appearances activate. His employment of materials considers gestural potentials and simulations of various forms, with works performing as gatherings of disruption and appeal. Pádraig lives and works in Cork, lecturing at CIT Crawford College of Art & Design.

Recent exhibitions include: Far From Here, The Complex, Dublin, (2019); Naked Truth: The Nude in Irish Art, Crawford Art Gallery, Cork, (2018); What Passes Between Us, Sirius Arts Centre, Cobh, (2017); ART WORKS 17, VISUAL Carlow, (2017).

His work is supported by the Arts Council and Cork City Council Arts Office.

ABOUT THE WORK

Title: From Altered Light, 2017, collage

From Altered Light collages images from a mid-twentieth century science journal and a mass-produced nature book. Juxtaposing manipulated inversions of a solar eclipse and a wildcat, the work explores how scientific and nature documentary imagery have impacted our understanding of the world.