Carissa Farrell reports on sculptor and multi-media artist Andrew Kearney’s new installation ‘Tell Me Something’ for Limerick City of Culture, which continues Kearney’s focus on the policing of the private individual
As part of Limerick City of Culture, Andrew Kearney has been commissioned to make a new temporary public art work entitled, Tell Me Something. The work takes the form of a large white luminescent torus (ring) positioned two thirds up the height of the chimney stack at the old Cleeves Condensed Milk Factory near the Shannon. It is intended to be visible from throughout the city centre as far up and perhaps further than the Sarsfield Bridge. Kearney is a skilled practitioner and thinker in the realm of public art and this work is a continuation of his ongoing research into finding ways to interpose the human experience of the built and social environment. His enquiry often exploits architecture but his core interest side lines it as a coincidental (but important) factor in a more fascinating examination of the conventions and strictures of the current social order. His recent project Spaces Building Make, at Middlesex University, London, looks at the dynamic between the ‘everyday users’ and the architectural environment of one phase of the university, built between 1974 and 1978.
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