• Wonder

    bronze & black granite

    47 x 27 x 21cm - edition of 5

  • Photography by Ros Kavanagh

  • Breath

    bronze, nickel plate & black granite

    53 x 16 x 17 cm - edition of 8

  • Turn I

    bronze & black granite

    49 x 32 x 16 cm - unique, from a series of 10

  • Turn II

  • Turn III

  • Turn IV

  • FATHOM - outstretched arms

    cast silver & fishing line

    2.5 x 2 x 2 cm - unique

  • Unseen I

    bronze & emerald pearl granite

    32 x 15 x 10 cm - varied edition of 5

  • Unseen II

    32 x 15 x 10 cm - varied edition of 5

  • Unseen III

    32 x 15 x 10 cm - varied edition of 5

  • Un seen IV

    24 x 12 x 9 cm - varied edition of 5

  • Un seen V

    24 x 12 x 9 cm

  • Un seen VI

    19 x 9 x 9 cm - varied edition of 5

  • Un seen VII

    19 x 9 x 9 cm - varied edition of 5

  • Inhale/Exhale I

    Marbling ink & carrageen size on watercolour paper

    80 x 60 cm - unique

  • Inhale/Exhale III

    25 x 35 cm - unique

  • Inhale/Exhale V

    40 x 30 cm - unique

  • Inhale/Exhale VI

    40 x 30 cm - unique

  • Inhale/Exhale VII

    25 x 35 cm - unique

Fathom - Outstretched Arms

Solomon gallery 29th May - 21 June 2025

This is a show with bronze marine sculpture forms, print, video and is complemented by a Creation Loop piece written by Poet Kerry Hardie.

“the work is rooted in my own personal journey of change and to seek a deeper connection to our irregular but natural world that is in constant flux. As a focus, I am exploring Lough Hyne’s unique marine reserve as a living breathing entity, making the invisible more visible”. RJ

Breathe 4:8

Filmed by the artist at the rapids in Lough Hyne, edited by Louis Joynt de Fouw.

Creation Loop

Poem by Kerry Hardie, motion graphics by Louis Joynt de Fouw.

invisible becomes visible

Drone filmed at Lough Hyne & edited by Louis Joynt de Fouw, microscope footage from Lough Hyne water sample, supplied by marine biologists Maria McGuinness & Prof. Rob McAllen, University College Cork.

¹ Wallace Stevens, Description Without Place, 1945 ² Rachel was referring to Steve Mentz who uses this phrase in his book, At the Bottom of Shakespeare’s Ocean, where he writes about the ocean’s inherent mystery and its challenge to human understanding, The sea possess a complex and dynamic nature that is difficult to fully grasp.

Catalogue Essay by Cliodhna Shaffrey

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