Artist Statements
Coracle Oracle
Becky Coffey.
With one of its uses being fishing, the idea of threads and hooks and the idea of something getting caught was what caught my attention when we first began to work on the coracle. Along with this was the idea of the build up of interconnecting moments, be they hours spent fishing, with the light changing in the sky as time passed by, and in the actual process of working together to make the coracle.
Dream catchers, and how they resemble webs, brought about the idea to make my own one for the coracle, using coloured threads all interlinking with one another to represent the changing light of the sky, with a circular willow frame to contain all that may be caught within them.
Becky Coffey is an artist based in Dublin. Her works involves mixed media installation She is a co-founder of Satellite Studios (2011 – present)
Ceara Martyn.
An instrument that holds the user ‘secure above the chaos’. The weaving of the willow rescues traditions and dying values. On a symbolic journey between the conscious and the unconscious, it comes full circle. The seeker, the spirit and the destination are all one.
Weaving willow around the figurehead, I tried to convey the combination of the craft and the symbolic. Woven willow surrounding a female ‘Lady Luck’. The anbiagram symbol represents the conscious/unconscious – everything coming full circle.
Ceara Martyn is an artist based in Dublin. Her work looks at symbolism and myth’s. She is also co- founder of Satellite Studios. (2011-present).
Ed Devane.
Music and sound informs my take on the coracle oracle. The inclusion of foghorns and electronic "fish calling" circuits may create cognitive dissonance in those who consider fishing to be a quiet sport, but studies have proven that fish are fascinated by noise. With my image I have endeavoured to place the traditional coracle into a contemporary, polluted canal context, replete with some essential fisher accessories.
Ed Devane is a sound artist and instrument builder, and is based in Dublin.
Roisin McNamee
There is an infinite chord of double helix that stretches out from land over waves to a universal vessel, a Coracle on open water, connecting the dreamer to the dream.
Repetitive processes of knotting and twisting give shape to the rope.
Roisin McNamee is an artist working in Dublin. Her interests lie in myths created around scientific language. She also is co-founder of Satellite Studios.