About:
‘Lucifer’ (titled after the biblical figure better known as Satan or the Fallen Angel) has many connotations but a specific emphasis was placed on a series of events in Ireland, particularly the recent economic crash and religious scandals, exploring the role of material substance in governing cultural values. Such happenings have highlighted the dominant and ultimately negative characteristics of Irish society which include greed, falseness and a certain ‘tackiness’.
Through the specific use of cheap gold foil, I played on the contrasting implications of the colour gold. As a rare metal, gold is highly valued for its beauty. It is a colour associated with success, achievement, luxury, royalty, prosperity, prestige, value and sophistication. It is powerful and has the potential to amaze and overwhelm with spectacular display. Within the clergy gold symbolises power, majesty and the presence of God. However, today’s mass appropriation of gold has forced it to become less valuable, garish and not rare in the slightest.
Dimensions: 13 meters x 1.5 meters
Medium: Gold Foil installation
Year: Graduate Show 2016
