Walking Keshcorran
A collaborative project culminating in a group exhibition during
the Tread Softly Festival, Sligo, 2021
“The ancient biography of these dark mountain caves is at the core of this exhibition. The passage of time permeates these works. The caves themselves are testimony to the power, patience and persistence of a single drop of water across deep time. The hypnotic and rhythmic quality of Kate Oram’s ‘Drip’ evokes both a sense of timelessness as well as the cyclical nature of time. In ‘Attainable’ she invites us to imagine what is almost unimaginable to the modern mind – a landscape where humans and their impact have been erased.”
Excerpt from Dr Marion Dowd’s essay Walking Keshcorran: The view from here
MA in Fine Art Through Creative Practice, IT Sligo 2020
The MA research awakened in me a dormant relationship to the land, and enabled a journey back to the naturalness, almost artlessness, of childhood discoveries. Studies of the landscape roused my interests in local topography and ecology, plant life, tree-scapes and the worrying disconnection of people from their environment.
ASHen
Ash leaf print; clay slip on Fabriano paper, A3
Ash stencil; clay slip leaf prints; A3
Ceramic bowl construction: ash leaves, slip
Ash leaf curling with clay
Bowl with ash leaf burnt out in firing, natural clay slip remaining
Two bowls, MA show
Two bowls, MA show
Dissolving ball; unfired clay, ash leaves
Dissolving ball; unfired clay, ash leaves
Dissolving ball; unfired clay, ash leaves
Bowl with ash leaves burnt out in firing, natural and commercial clay slips remaining
Bowl with ash leaves burnt out in firing, natural and commercial clay slips remaining
MA Show, IT Sligo, September 2020
Nine ash leaf and clay slip prints on paper
Twelve clay tablets, ash leaf prints, fired and unfired