claire Mc Dermott, 'Three', ceramic, 01-05-2009. Photo: by Claire Mc Dermott. By developing space awareness the whole image evolved.
Five projects from a-n members, selected from a-n’s busy Events section, take us to Birmingham, Co. Durham, Exeter, Sevenoaks and Southampton.
Marburae House, Athey Street, Macclesfeild, Cheshire, SK116QU
The Galley HAC, London
15 March – 7 April 2013
Claire Mc Dermott ARBS, 'Identity -GM3', red painted steel, aluminum Perpex, 2013. Photo: Claire Mc Dermott ARBS. By creating the housing of the sculptural forms meant that the foreground was placed in a setting to match the identity of the sculpture. The inventive usage of objects naturally creates a partition, breaking from the twee flower subject and changing how object art is viewed.
Claire Mc Dermott ARBS, 'Vitality.', water colour & black gauche paint, 2012. Photo: Claire Mc Dermott ARBS. Mc Dermott paints delicate water colours of Tulip flowers in transition. By using microscopes, binocular magnifier, paints different aspects of light so that simple discoveries of beauty are found.
Claire Mc Dermott ARBS, 'Idenity AC', Idenity AC, 09.2011. Photo: Claire Mc Dermott. Mc Dermott developed her botanical drawings of Michaelmas into an object, by drawing it in mid air. This action gave a freedom to ?the drawn line? when botanical drawings do not. By simplifying the ideas, the need to conform in accuracy was lifted and the feeling of being trapped within a process or style was pushed aside.
Claire Mc Dermott ARBS, 'Adore', Water colour painting, 2005. Photo: Claire Mc Dermott ARBS. Spent Tulips -
Going to seed -
Claire McDermott ARBS paints delicate water colours of Tulip flowers in transition. Mc Dermott uses microscopes, binocular magnifier, and paints different aspects of light so that simple discoveries of beauty are found. Mc Dermott is looking for the unseen and what we take for granted with our eyes
Claire Mc Dermott, 'Adore', Water colour painting, 2005. Photo: Claire Mc Dermott. Spent Tulips-Going to seed-
....McDermott paints delicate water colours of Tulip flowers in transition. Mc Dermott uses microscopes, binocular magnifier, and paints different aspects of light so that simple discoveries of beauty are found. Mc Dermott is looking for the unseen and what we take for granted with our eyes.
Claire Mc Dermott, 'Atmos', Bone China & Glaze, 2009. Photo: Claire Mc Dermott. The sculpture called ?Atmos? is short for atmosphere and was created to increase the quality of space. By placing the bright flowers in a space that is normally forgotten, the area is reclaimed and starts to have an importance of its own.
This work was created by a sense of timelessness and the simple shapes of fallen rhododendrons petals to convey a calm feeling. My vision was to install a carpet of colour with the flowers and give "Harmony" to the sculpture and the space.