Tyrrell’s practice is grounded in a concern for how the physical and psychological limitations of a person's situational experience might hinder and deviate their movements. She considers how a person's movement through a space determines their perception of it. She contemplates the invisible happenings and ways of being that hold real value.
Through touch and time she finds a point of contact to make tangible her own perceptual experience. She slows a space down to consider the invisible realities or happenings within the space, visually and physically feeling through an embodied and tacit knowledge of experience.
Monument frames softness, gentle power and small moments of movement as monumental in both their individual mark and their accumulative fabric. Taking up space in softness, Tyrrell exemplifies the structural importance of stillness and vulnerability.
Originally exhibited at the NCAD Sculpture and Expanded Practice graduate show Softening a Room - Monument is currently being exhibited at Luan Gallery, Athlone in group exhibition Take Care to Leave a Trace, curated by Aoife Banks.
“Take Care to Leave a Trace examines the invisible exchanges and affectual relations between mind, body, and land. Exploring themes of memory, grief, spirituality and our relationship with our surrounding environments, Take Care to Leave a Trace investigates psychic and relational terrains through the monumentalisation of the intangible, unseen interactions between body and space.
Featuring the work of selected recent graduates: Peter Bjoerk, Aoife Ní Dhuinn, Laura Grisard, Shane Malone-Murphy, Aisling McConville, and Patsy Tyrrell, Take Care to Leave a Trace offers insight into the practice of emerging Irish artists working across mediums such as sculpture, performance, film, photography, and drawing.”
