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Seamus Staunton

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biography

Seamus Staunton was featured in Contemporary Art Society's ARTfutures 2007 at Bloomberg SPACE, London.

statement

Seamus Staunton is interested in the potency of sound and the way that music maps emotion and mood.

Previous sculptures have often employed forms deriving from sound wave patterns and frequency graphs. Some have been likened to the sound boxes of musical instruments. Staunton's recent wall-mounted Constellation series have a highly reflective coloured external shell enclosing a flock -lined interior chamber in contrasting colour. A number of circular apertures punctuate the surface drawing the viewer’s gaze to an inner space that remains elusive, their soft matt interiors suggesting muffled intimacy. The regular rhythm set up by the pattern of holes suggests a cellular form with the potential to grow in any direction.

Other recent series deal with landscape, the natural and the man-made. Much of what we think of as natural is often the result of human contrivance and the garden is nature at its most artificial. These works make reference to the stylised landscaping epitomised by golf course design as well as the world of interior furnishing. Surfaces are clad in the same green baize used on billiard and snooker tables, originally used to convey the sense of a playing field, a model of the outdoors. With their green, upholstered slopes and geometric contours enclosing a pool of perfect blue water, the sculptures of the Reservoir series suggest an idealised topography. Reservoir III can be read as a hill containing a tarn or, from a distance, as a manicured shrub, a piece of topiary. A container for liquid, it is also a repository for ideas about landscape and art, nature and cultivation.