Forerunner (2017) Installation view of ‘Periodical Review #7’ curated by PPS & RGKSKSRG (Gavin Murphy, Mark Cullen, Rachael Gilbourne & Kate Strain) in Pallas Projects, Dublin. Photograph: Kasia Kaminska. 

First commissioned by the Mermaid Arts Centre in Bray, Co. Wicklow curated by Niamh O’Donnell in 2017. These structures were made specifically to help ‘solve’ the architecture of the Mermaid Arts Centre and were positioned so as to redistribute sense of space, light and allow new uses to emerge within the gallery. This project emerged in early 2017 following research into sustainable and reproducible building processes with a focus on certain modern influencers. Combining ideas of knowledge sharing, the early self build movement and artists such as Sol LeWitt and Ken Isaacs a vocabulary of physical platforms and shapes was created for the Mermaid Arts Centre in Bray. Borrowing heavily from the Ken Isaacs book How To Build Your Own Living Structures (1974) a scaffold construction system was created, deliberately based around a human dimension as opposed to the globally standardised size of lumber. 

In late 2017 I the work was selected for the Pallas Periodical Review, an annual group exhibition. Used as a framing device, the images shown here are the second iteration of the work.