FERGUS MARTIN, DUBLIN, IRELAND, 1955. LIVES AND WORKS IN DUBLIN, IRELAND.

ARTISTS WEBSITE: WWW.FERGUSMARTIN.COM

MARTIN IS REPRESENTED BY GREEN ON RED GALLERY, DUBLIN, IRELAND.

Fergus Martin makes use of the world around him as a source for his paintings, sculpture and photographs. His work reflects things seen or even fleeting moments from the everyday. The geometric forms that consistently appear in his work give shape to his preoccupation with space, form and materials.

Recent projects have taken the form of spatial and environmental pieces. These sculptures and paintings are a journey towards a moment of recognition which Martin thinks of as a meeting of form and energy. They mirror the world around him - the colour and shape of things. He wants them to feel the density and weight of things - their sense of compression, or their opening out. Their placing in relation to one another and their relation to their architectural surroundings is a conversation about distance and nearness, centre and periphery. Ideally, it is a journey without end. Each work will initiate its own time and space while always having a sense of movement, of going on.