Stuart Cairns: Hinterlands
Saturday 25 May – Sunday 14 July 2024
![Stuart Cairns: Tideline Spoon and Spray; courtesy College Lane Gallery | Stuart Cairns: Hinterlands | Saturday 25 May – Sunday 14 July 2024 | College Lane Gallery | Image: Stuart Cairns: Tideline Spoon and Spray; courtesy College Lane Gallery | photo of two objects on a wall; the one on the left is vertical and spoon-like, assembled with wire, what looks like the handle of a paintbrush which has been decorated in a somewhat Mondrian style + a circular curved blemished disk; the one on the right consists of maybe 100 or so dried stalks of long grass; some of the stalks have natural, black seedheads Stuart Cairns: Tideline Spoon and Spray; courtesy College Lane Gallery | Stuart Cairns: Hinterlands | Saturday 25 May – Sunday 14 July 2024 | College Lane Gallery | Image: Stuart Cairns: Tideline Spoon and Spray; courtesy College Lane Gallery | photo of two objects on a wall; the one on the left is vertical and spoon-like, assembled with wire, what looks like the handle of a paintbrush which has been decorated in a somewhat Mondrian style + a circular curved blemished disk; the one on the right consists of maybe 100 or so dried stalks of long grass; some of the stalks have natural, black seedheads](https://dnote.website/wordpres2/wp-content/uploads/2024/07/stuart-cairns.jpg)
Found/gathered
Material fragments turned
Fabrications of imagination.
Rooted in place,
Or the memory of place.
Wanders
Along the tidelines
Gaze drifting
Out beyond
This is what we bring back
This is what we carry with us.
Stuart Cairns is an Irish artist whose practice is concerned with investigating the environment and his relationship with it through walking, photography, drawing, making and the collection of found objects. Centred on a love for materials, materiality and a sense of place he combines found objects, manipulated materials and fabrications as a physical drawn language. These quiet, small forms sit as poems to the landscape, suggesting wanders by the sea, wonders in the forest and small moments in the city. They show the richness of the material world, the wonders of the everyday which can light up the imagination. Abstracted forms of vessels, implements and tools are referenced, placing human presence within the work and a sense of place. The resulting objects speak of an implied life, of a past and a place, of things being carried, left and lifted once again.
Image: Stuart Cairns: Tideline Spoon and Spray; courtesy College Lane Gallery
Saturday 25 May – Sunday 14 July 2024
Abbey Street
Howth, Co. Dublin
Howth, Co. Dublin
Admission / price: Free