Sugar wos ear (extract), 2011
Sugar beet was grown in the fields around my home in Carlow town, Ireland, until the untimely closure of the Carlow sugar factory in 2005 to free the land for development.
In ‘Sugar Wos Ear’ I collect a palette for ephemeral graffiti while playing with ideas of abstraction, the making of colour-field paintings & compositions in the field, alluding to movements in painting & poetry that co-existed in time with the establishment and development of the Carlow sugar factory.
