Sophie Curran is a Dublin based Artist/Designer currently completing a BA(Hons) in Fine Art: Ceramics and Glass. Sophies' work researches concepts of fragility and instability. She uses the everyday teabags as a metaphor to represent her ideas relating to the entropy of Irish Society. Sophie has exhibited in Gallery Zozimus 2016 and 2017. Shortlisted for Future Makers Award 2017. Selected Sculpture and Context.

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My research this year engages with the entropy of Irish Society in response to the recession in Ireland. I investigated ghost estates, empty office blocks and vacant retail spaces. Looking at the housing crisis and economic collapse led me to ideas of instability, and fragility of the country but also the population’s lives and livelihoods. After having read an article on architecture Ireland entitled finding wilderness in the concrete jungle I began to research, ruin photography, The ideology of ruin value; Ruins as ‘melancholic reflections on the transience of past glory, and Ruin Porn: images that that are metaphors for financial hardship and poverty.

 

My process has been to gather used teabags, these mundane objects bare witness to the conversations had and not had holding the memories, and worries of those who used them. I have now began to cluster and immerse in slip clay, after firing they are cut sharply to expose these organic shells characteristics of fragility between the connections made balanced on a delicate edge to convey a sense of instability.My most recent work has evolved to become forms that resemble fossils of an archeological dig reflecting back on Irelands most recent past with inspiration from dendrochronolody and the layers of time. I have used multiples as an integral part of my work, how they relate to one another to create a flow using this gradual decline into a state of disorder. I have created forms that contain this entropy.