Colour theory gives an excellent bridge between art and science, and many of our works start with its beautiful clarity. Colour Wheels, for example - a permanent light installation for Limerick University - superimposes red, green and blue projected light to make white light circles in which a person will cast three shadows, one in each of the secondary colours…shapeimage_2_link_0

In the Picture

The Barbican, London

2010


Colour Wheels

Permanent installation

University of Limerick

2011

Pourquoi pas toi ?

Centre Pompidou

Paris, 2008-09

Dutch Wax

Dublin Contemporary

2011

Still life with…

Hunt Museum

Limerick, 2010

Limerick City of Culture

2014

COLOUR

Complementary Helmet

(project)

2016

Equiluminance Helmet

(with David Byrne)

NYC 2017

Beam Splitters

(project)

2017

In a recent work session at the University of Limerick, we worked with school children to make and explore a wearable optical device that tests our perception of colour —how our brain can combine separate colour images in opposite and complementary colours, coming from 2 different eyes, into a single image - and what happens when the brain refuses to do so? This extremely wide ranging workshop incorporated colour theory, light transmission, wavelength, UV and Infra red, binocular vision, animal vision, and a variety of other subjects related to the experience.

Complementary Goggles

CURAM residency

2017