Four is pleased to present 'It's a roller coaster.', new work by Rhona
Byrne hosted by Kerlin Gallery Dublin.
8th August to 6th September 2008
In Kerlin's private viewing room, Byrne has built a full-scale section
of a wooden roller coaster. The tracks cut through the space as though
looping through the floor and re-emerging, before cutting through the
back wall and disappearing off into the city. It offers a heady and
vertiginous way out of the gallery, a kind-of nerve-racking adventure.
Byrne also presents the early results of a collaborative research
project with renowned environmental and investigative psychologist,
David Canter. This work is an exploration of the relationship between
behaviour and experience and the built and natural environment. It
considers the roles that design, function and memory play in our
attachment of meaning to place. In a film of a discussion about
meaning and space, Canter reflects, amongst other things, on how
galleries operate in relation to his idea of 'rules of place'.
Rhona Byrne makes objects; site-specific, gallery and context-based
installations; films; publications and collaborative event-based
projects. These projects focus on the interplay between people and
their surrounding environment at both macro and micro levels. Byrne's
work explores and engages with the multilayered surfaces and workings
of the built environment and navigates intangible and transient layers
of physical, mental and social space.
Recent solo exhibitions include; Nothing Happens, Gallery for One,
Dublin, 2007; The Umbrella Project, The Lab, Dublin, 2006
(publication); Home, Axis Arts Centre, Ballymun, 2005 (publication).
Selected group exhibitions include; Green Screen, ICA, Sydney, 2008;
Architecture: the bridge, The Dock, Leitrim, 2008; Changing spaces,
The Concourse, Dublin, 2007; Work, Haus der Architektur Graz, Austria,
2006; Locws International 3, Swansea, 2007; Here there and Otherwise,
Dublin, 2005; Offside, Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, 2005. Rhona
currently an artist in residence at the Irish Museum of Modern Art.
Professor David Canter is an internationally renowned applied
environmental psychologist, writer, social researcher, criminal and
investigative psychologist. He began his career as an architectural
psychologist in the early 1960s and has published widely on varied
aspects of psychology and is best known for his theory of the
Psychology of Place. He has consulted and lectured extensively on
issues of environmental design, safety and energy efficient design and
architectural psychology.
Kerlin Gallery, Anne's Lane, South Anne Street, Dublin 2, Ireland
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