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finding the forgiving element | 6th April - 26th May 2024 | Butler Gallery, Kilkenny | Solo exhibition | ​Photographs by Ros Kavanagh

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Language is not an adequate mirror tool, 2024 (installation view)
​rubber, pigment
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untitled, 2024
foam, rubber, pigment
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the second kind of commitment, 2024
steel, jesmonite, pigment
          pliant material, suited to challenge, 2024
​          rice paper, food colouring, plexiglass
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               untitled, 2024 (detail)                
               foam, rubber, pigment                
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the second kind of commitment, 2024
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establishing one's presence, objectively, 2024
wood, latex balloon, rubber, pigment, plastic ties
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​SA_FILM_GREEN_REV_ , 2024
​video, 4 minutes and 54 seconds
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SA_FILM_GREEN_REV_ , 2024 (stills)                
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  establishing one's presence, objectively, 2024
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pliant material, suited to challenge, 2024
​rice paper, food colouring, plexiglass
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Language is not an adequate mirror tool, 2024
​rubber, pigment
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a kind of ethical involvement 2, 2024
​foam
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the wonder that a thing exists, 2023
foam, rubber, perspex, pigment, mdf
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to crinkle the light bouncing off, 2024
rice paper, foam, pigment, metal
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​we are now absorbed something, 2024
latex balloon, rubber, resin, pigment
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a hierarchy of human beings, 2024
​rubber, pigment, plexiglass
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exhibition views          
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untitled, 2024 (foreground)
foam, rubber, pigment
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untitled, 2024
foam, rubber, pigment
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the palm becomes a working space, 2024
foam, rubber, pigment
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SA_FILM_BLACK_REV_, 2024 (stills)
video, 4 minutes and 54 seconds
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