Carissa Farrell is transfixed by the shard-like glass birds and decayed flowers that combine to fascinating effect in Graham Gingles’s signature boxes at the Hamilton Gallery, Sligo
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Gingles is known for his lifelong practice of producing boxes which imitate apothecaries’ cabinets filled with compartments of curiosities, sculptures, drawings and found objects. His work is enriched by an avid imagination that returns to examine themes of particular fascination to him: biology, death, sex, religious iconography and decay. This new work at the Hamilton Gallery, Sligo comprises both boxes and works on paper. A general air of tragedy and decay can be attributed to particular aspects of the work, such as the overall distressed quality of the materials; a ghoulish white paint that Gingles has untidily washed over elements of the frames and more explicitly, sculpted birds made from shards of broken glass
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