John Rainey appraises the varied sculptural practice of artist Blaine O’Donnell
Blaine O’Donnell’s new body of work, ‘idir’ (Irish for ‘between’), offers a provisional entry point into a practice invested in unfamiliar connections between disparate things. Working in a range of sculptural materials, O’Donnell engages with fields including technology, architecture and geology. In an increasingly specialised world, artists have rare access to this type of disciplinary versatility. ‘You get to spend time in those worlds, becoming acquainted with their materials and methods of inquiry without being bound by the conventions of the field,’ he says.
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