Factory Made at Green On Red Gallery, Dublin, looks at a common interest in a number of contemporary art practices that celebrate the use of industrial materials and tools, as much as possible in their existing states, with the minimum of intervention, to a variety of artistic ends, starting with German artist Kirstin Arndt.

It echoes a theme in the recently-visited Room 1 in the Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, called Aus Der Fabrik / From the Factory which celebrates the work of two leading 20th century artists Donald Judd and Charlotte Posenenske.  The wall text explains how the early minimalists were “ fascinated by serially manufactured products from factories “ and “ After making his first boxes by hand, Judd commissioned the family business Bernstein Brothers to produce his work industrially.“  Posenenske, on the other hand “ .. deliberately departs from this sobriety “ with her playful square tube configurations made using unadorned metal industrial vents or plain brown corrugated cardboard.  The Posenenske sculptures in the room are reconstructed several times during the exhibition, according to the wall text.

Add to the industrial aesthetic in Arndt a play with material-specificity and site-specificity as the materials fall or suspend in space, sometimes map space, always allowing the materials to speak eloquently.  The materials variously absorb light, reflect light, make light, depending on their factory-made material or finish.  Her floating compositions are all the more impactful thanks to their stripped-down nature and clean, simple forms.

Sofia Hultén’s work has been described as aggressively or brutally industrial.   Her industrially sourced or found works bear the marks of use, of wear-and-tear, of being in the world, of having worked in or been broken in the world.  Hultén engages with her materials in a more personal and direct way using the memory of the material and of the artist as active components.  She takes her materials on a journey which can be playful, violent or loving.

Fergus Martin‘s new paintings develop an aspect of his most recent solo exhibiton in Green On Red Gallery with the invention of new shaped, factory-produced ” canvases “.  They are wall-mounted and/or floor-mounted.  These new Atomic ( 2025 ) paintings on aluminium are meticulously painted by hand in one burnt umber colour , front and sides, with a small 1″ wide paint brush.  They have an insistent, luxuriant presence.

We are excited to show London-based Irish artist Hazel O’Sullivan for the second time in Green On Red Gallery with a new large painting, Lagore Crannóg ( 2025 ) and new drawings.  The large hard-edge abstract painting somehow hovers between early Renaissance perspectival interiors – also the root of her previous wood-inlay and carpet-inlay paintings – and a disarmingly large staring face.