Dorothy Cross - Leaving Cert Higher Level Art

Context, Ghost Ship, Parachute, Virgin Shroud

Born where/when, education, how multidisciplinary artist

Cork, 1956

Crawford College, Leicester Polytechnic, San Fransisco Art Institute

“poetic amalgamation” of found objects

 sculpture, photography, video, installation

Virgin Shroud - Year

1993

Virgin Shroud - Media

found object piece

cowhide, udders included, stitched to grandmother’s wedding dress.

steel structure creates the human form underneath.

Virgin Shroud - Subject Matter

women’s role in society and how they are viewed

motherhood, feminitity and virginity

draws immediate parallel with cows - mothers to their calves, common comparison to women 

Virgin Shroud - Composition

human like frame - resembles a bride. udders - resemble crown

Virgin Shroud - Colour

white - purity, virginity

black - unsettling contrast

Parachute - Year

2005

Parachute - Location

IMMA, Dublin

Parachute - Composition

gannet hung upside down - emphasises lifelessness - from “parachute” (blue fabric) resembling the sky, from ceiling

Parachute - Media

parachute

gannet - found washed up on Ireland’s Atlantic Coast, ad preserved, to prevent decay

Parachute - Subject Matter

loss, remembrance

irony - birds don’t need parachutes - highlights death

reflects on death and former existance

Parachute - Colour

natural colours from gannet

blue parachute - blue sky

cream/white gannet - delicacy, lightness

Ghost Ship - Year

1998

Ghost Ship - Location

Scotsman’s Bay, Dun Laoighaire - temporary

ten minute video and two scale models (one painted) available at the IMMA

Ghost Ship - Media

140 foot lightship, the Albatros, painted in phosphorescent paint - glow in the dark

three hour cycle

recharged with UV lights