A new series of framed photographs of hand-built wooden roof models. The models are made by male and female apprentice carpenters working across Ireland, then staged and photographed by the artist in front of handmade backdrops in the workshops and institutions where they were fabricated. These scaled roof models are the result of a standard learning exercise that encourages the student makers to develop and test a range of complex skills to translate two dimensional plans into three dimensional space. The series also alludes to a longer tradition of photographers going into sculptors’ studios and design workshops to stage their maquettes and assist in bringing the objects made with care in these interior testing spaces out into the world.

Series of 18 works (ongoing), each 45cm x 36cm.

Archival Pigment Prints on Hahnemuhle Fine Art Cotton Rag paper (dibond mounted), hand-coloured wood frame, glazed with anti-reflective UV-protected glass.

Limited Editions of 5 (request print list)