Red star rug
High voltage
Hi, my name is Patrick
What inspired me to create my work
There are moments when my attention and curiosity are caught by road markings, their colour, their juxtaposition with other elements such as the warning marks of utility companies. I use this visual research as means of dividing the area of a square into different weighted proportions of colour, shape and texture. I have titled this exploration as my “Industrial Graffiti series”.
Each work in the Industrial Graffiti series is augmented on the reverse with title and notation of the observed original location for the stimulus for the process with a set of Cartesian coordinates (latitude and longitude) by which the viewer can locate the observed original location for further investigation, should they wish to do so.
From time to time, I indulge my curiosity in other distractions such as mountain tops in mist and cloud. Or addressing the “Themes” of open calls, or almost anything for some practice!
An extension of Industrial Graffiti
Some time ago, I saw samples of Eileen Grey’s rug work exhibited at the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) and it gave me thought to consider how my Industrial Graffiti work would look and feel if expressed through the soft tactile medium of a rug!
Thus began my venture into Rug Art exploration. The dichotomy of expressing a hard horizontal surface as a soft, tactile, contoured, low relief horizontal or vertical piece of work intrigued me to the point that I had to find out.
My rug pieces are made at Dixon Carpet Company, Oughterard, County Galway.
Recognised by
2026 ArtNetdlr, “Hands On” members open, October-December” under the heading “Exhibitions 2022 -2026”
