Station (2007)
Various materials
250 x 90 x 90 cm

Photo: Broadstone XL, Dublin

Exhibited as part of
Hinterlands: Liam Campbell
& Ciaran Walsh

As a further development of research around the figure and practice of Wilhelm Reich, Station extrapolated the psychiatrists theories and designs to provide orgone energised drinking water for visitors to the gallery space.

Chamber (2007)
Wood, galvanised steel, sheep wool,
steel wool, light boxes
Various dimensions

Photo: Broadstone XL, Dublin

Exhibited as part of
Hinterlands: Liam Campbell
& Ciaran Walsh

A near faithful recreation of Wilhelm Reich's Orgone Accumulator, the device which led to the errant psychiatrist being convicted for medical fraud. Reich was to die two years later in prison, utterly disgraced and excluded by the psychiatric community. Incorporated into the work are the internet-sourced texts from which the recreation is based.

Orgone Prototype (2007)
Wood, copper pipes and fixtures,
clear plastic tubing
210 x 260 x 80 cm

Photo: Hotel Ballymun, Dublin

Exhibited temporarily in the art installation space at Hotel Ballymun

Sited on the upper floor of Clarke Tower - part of the now derelict modernist Ballymun housing scheme - and based upon Wilhelm Reich's psuedo-scientific weather control devices, the work paralleled traces of utopianism and modernity with individualised narratives of invention, optimism, exclusion and failure.

Sheltered (2006)
Neon text, found wood
85 x 46 x 20 cm

Photo: Four Gallery, Dublin

Exhibited as part of solo show
Archipelago and Other Stories

Sheltered represented a gestural act of negation that both touched upon the dichotomy between protection and confinement, and also associated sensations of the desire.

Archipelago (2006)
Various materials
Variable dimensions

Photo: Four Gallery, Dublin

Exhibited as part of solo show
Archipelago and Other Stories

Simplified representations of a generic heterotopia sit under a precariously constructed shelter, inviting more intimate engagement with the scale and delicate fabric of the work, while simultaneously creating a barrier.

TV Stories (2003/6)
Printed text on card, pins
55 x 78 cm

Photo: Four Gallery, Dublin

Exhibited as part of solo show
Archipelago and Other Stories

Four Gallery

Representing three subjective memories of a soap opera, a cartoon series, and a popular film from the childhood memory of the artist, TV Stories depicted ideas of personality loss, confinement and heterotopias funneled through the individual's relationship to narratives in popular culture.

Seven Year Development Plan (2005)
Cardboard, MDF, paper
125 x 125 x 60 cm

Photo: Carlow County Council Offices

Exhibited as part of Flagged, curated
by Neva Elliot and commissioned
by Visualise Carlow

Sited in the lobby of a local council office - normally the location of planning applications and diagrams - Seven Year Development Plan (a title referring to the timeframe within which the body completely renews all it's cells) depicted existing architecture of the locality amongst fictional buildings and superstructures in an attempt to delve into the uncanniness of rapidly developing locales.

Like 1-2-3...Only Backwards (2003)
Cardboard, MDF, closed-circuit
camera, TV monitor

Variable dimensions

Photo: IADT, Dun Laoghaire

Playing on sculptural representations of scale and the construction of fictional space in television, Like 1-2-3...Only Backwards depicted the studio set of a 1960's science-fiction show to query the temporal direction of our attention when viewing the futuristic visions of the past.