This was the third in a series of solo exhibitions in 2017 for Artlink Members. Objectecture brings together sculptural works that showcase for the first time Kevin McLaughlin’s long term engagement with assemblage, constructions and found objects. This body of work seeks to draw on and explore overlooked aspects of non-typical sculptural materials. He employs a breadth of materials – wood, stone, metal, bronze, plaster and found objects – readily available in Inishowen, on its beaches, along its boreens and roadsides, in its fields and boglands and its abandoned rural buildings. There is an authentic engagement with the materials that taps in to what is compelling in their nature.
Kevin is interested in the extreme cultural juxtaposition between certain aspects of the landscape of the northwest of Ireland and certain principles of materiality in contemporary sculpture. With its mountainous undulating coastline that is constantly being formed and reformed by the omnipresent power of the north Atlantic Ocean, it is a landscape that is undeniably sculptural in its topography and fundamental essence.
Past projects include solo and group shows with the Earagail Arts Festival and the Derry City of Culture 2013 visual arts programme and a driftwood mandala installed and immolated at Burning Man in 2006.
- March 29, 2017
