The Pattern Of Purpose
08th Jul 2010 - 18th Jul 2010
Opens 8th 7-9pm. Runs daily 11-5pm
Brian Hegarty works from an archive of collected materials, found objects and printed matter. Abstractions that possess the raw and vital energy of urban graffiti, or coded city maps, are arranged to separate and organise the spatial field. Hegarty’s are compressed worlds, scenes of simultaneity, where elements can get lost or scratched out. His dense assemblages of a nowhere resist claustrophobia and give way instead to agile floating worlds. Fragments of coloured shapes, snippets of text and disengaged motifs operate like graphic coding.
Adapted from an essay by Cliodhna Shaffrey ‘A perfect paradox’ from a catalogue of Brian’s work entitled ‘Between accident & intent.’