Working in cast porcelain, metal and marble, Belfast-based artist John Rainey reconfigures the visual language of classical statuary to propose alternative sculptural histories. His forms appear both familiar and strange: bodies shift between states, fragments are grafted or misaligned, and surfaces mimic other materials.
Drawing on an archive of plaster-moulded forms, Rainey assembles composite, mythological figures through processes of recombination, echoing the hybrid characters of Galway’s Macnas Parades. Presented as an evolving system, Deviations allows familiar structures to drift from their origins, opening new possibilities for form, material and meaning.
Curated by Tom McLean
Thursday 16 July, 6pm
Thursday 23 July, 6pm
Further details for the workshop on galwayartscentre.ie
