The Green Room Exhibitions: Kyla McDonagh.

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The main receptacles are modelled in porcelain and stoneware clay. Additional materials are integrated including paper scrolls and stone; lithic debitage salvaged near the Mesolithic site at Mount Sandel. Inspired by archaeological discoveries and sealed behind glass, these mixed-media displays allude to allegory. 

“My artefacts are fashioned in clay. The tactile process of modelling a soft, earth-sourced material and transforming it with heat into a vitrified ceramic votive, marks the physical construction. The impetus behind it; a mental scuffle with ideologies and theories of human origin. From the dawn of opposable thumbs, the human species has been leaving its mark on history, every modest incision linked to a greater story.  Palaeolithic bone engravings, rudimentary tools, and early metalwork have been a source of inspiration.”   – Kyla McDonagh

Biography

Specialist training in the field of ceramics led Kyla McDonagh to investigate the beauty of form through the medium of clay. Graduating from the University of Ulster with a First-class Honours Degree in Fine and Applied Arts, she was awarded a prize by the Royal Ulster Academy of Arts. Kyla is currently producing art works from her studio based at the North Coast. Connected to principles of knowledge, her curated displays reverberate the sound of treasured history and remnants from the past.