It’s All About Books
Exhibition, The Cregan Library, St. Patricks Campus, DCU (2019)
This exhibition looks at the role of books in our culture: the book as artefact, object, document, resource, entertainment, concept etc. The works engage with the materiality of books, also with aspects of their history and future in a technology driven world. In Black Book, text and margins are inked to total blackness, while Unwritten offers a shelf of white blanks. Works such as; Ghost, The Life and Death of the Author and Murder Mystery explore points of intersection between writer and reader, reader and fellow reader. Staging the exhibition in a library created a parallel context for the works. Included were; seven pieces presented on plinths and an opening night performance which transformed into an installation for the duration of the exhibition.

The Life and Death of the Author
prepared book with noose cable (2019)

Black Book
book saturated with black ink (2019)

Ghost
book of transparent blank acetate pages (2019)

Book of Mirrors
mirror and mirror foil (2019)

Murder Mystery
prepared book (2019)

Unwritten
a shelf of blank books (2019)

Ulysses Bolted
prepared book, two views (2019)

Assimilation
Performance still (2019)

Assimilation
Post performance installation
