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.