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Secret Senses - installation comprising steel frames and scented wax tablets.
:From 6th - 27th June an installation by artist Catherina Hearne from Cork will be showing at Droichead Arts Centre.
Secret Senses is a series of 2.3m high sculptural panels comprising thousands of individually cast scented wax tablets, which will create a series of intimate spaces, filled with colour and scent. The work is intended to interact with the exhibition space on multiple levels - visually, physically and emotionally.
On a formal level it transforms and humanises the architectural structure of a space by creating intriguing sub-division or personal space. On an aesthetic level it introduces a dynamic splash of colour and a more subtle range of scents to entice the viewer and create an area of pleasant calm.
Colour is an important element within the work, coming mainly from the warmer end of the spectrum- reds, violets and oranges. Due to the visual interaction of the various panels of colour the viewer is provided with a constantly changing vista as they move through and around the installation. Scent is used to evoke memories and to stimulate senses beyond the visual. The range scents id diverse creating new scents through interaction.
The work is designed to interact with both the viewer and the space in which it is presented. It operates on a human scale inviting the viewer to enter enclosed places and explore its internal and external references. The positioning of the panels and the spaces created relate to the location in which it is presented - it may echo spaces within a building or contrast them.
‘This work combines my interest in formal aesthetic, particularly sculptural concerns with a broader sensory experience and continues my exploration of the concept of a journey‚’ said Catherina Hearne."
Drogheda Independent, June 8, 2001
Secret Senses is a series of 2.3m high sculptural panels comprising thousands of individually cast scented wax tablets, which will create a series of intimate spaces, filled with colour and scent. The work is intended to interact with the exhibition space on multiple levels - visually, physically and emotionally.
On a formal level it transforms and humanises the architectural structure of a space by creating intriguing sub-division or personal space. On an aesthetic level it introduces a dynamic splash of colour and a more subtle range of scents to entice the viewer and create an area of pleasant calm.
Colour is an important element within the work, coming mainly from the warmer end of the spectrum- reds, violets and oranges. Due to the visual interaction of the various panels of colour the viewer is provided with a constantly changing vista as they move through and around the installation. Scent is used to evoke memories and to stimulate senses beyond the visual. The range scents id diverse creating new scents through interaction.
The work is designed to interact with both the viewer and the space in which it is presented. It operates on a human scale inviting the viewer to enter enclosed places and explore its internal and external references. The positioning of the panels and the spaces created relate to the location in which it is presented - it may echo spaces within a building or contrast them.
‘This work combines my interest in formal aesthetic, particularly sculptural concerns with a broader sensory experience and continues my exploration of the concept of a journey‚’ said Catherina Hearne."
Drogheda Independent, June 8, 2001
Moments in Time
"Catherina Hearne's exhibition at Butler House cleverly and wittily utilises everyday (or everyhour) items from a woman's handbag or toilette to make a series of mini-sculptures ranged in installation-style groups. There are, perhaps, just too many of them for comfort, yet the invention is kept up all through. " The Art of Contrast" Irish Times, Aug 26, 1997