Maud Cotter: a consequence of – a dappled world

Maud Cotter portrait (Roland Paschhoff)(Simon Mills, top); the moon is falling, Maud Cotter, 2018; and

Curated by Miranda Driscoll

Theatre installation: May 27–June 23, 2022 Building-wide installation: May 27–September 5, 2022 For visting hours and more info: irishartscenter.org

Taking its title from “Pied Beauty,” a poem by Gerard Manley Hopkins celebrating the diverse and disparate nature of existence, visual artist Maud Cotter’s solo exhibition questions the nature of form and physical reality. Concepts are liquid; finding form and cohesion through making, calling into question the very nature of physical reality and the place of human will within such a mercurial mix. Bringing together works developed from 2015 onward, Cotter offers transcendent visions of the materials she uses, though in her mind, the primary material is the invisible force-field that holds things together.

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