Mullin’s work playfully explores states of failure, incompletion, and destruction as a means to displace our accustomed approach to everyday objects and structures. Born in Northern Ireland and trained in Design at the Royal College of Art, he broke early on from the traditional pathway of creating functional objects, intrigued instead to develop artwork that shakes up the vocabulary and effects of architecture and design.
This new body of work entitled Pack attempts to uproot how our everyday constructs are communicated and received. With humour in mind, objects and images taken from daily life are deconstructed and gathered together to form a network of investigations and incongruous views operating on the threshold of painting, architecture and drawing.
Tony Mullin
I am looking to challenge the boundaries between Architecture, sculpture and design. Born in Northern Ireland and trained in Design at the Royal College of Art, I broke early on from the traditional pathway of creating functional objects. I was intrigued instead to develop artwork that uses the vocabulary and operational effects of architecture and design. Because of the nature of these interventions, I have incorporated sculpture, drawing, photography and multimedia as a means to document my practice. The major aim of each work is to either replicate something of a particular space that is unseen, or propose something that might take place at a particular site in the future as a way to promote critical debate. At the core, I am making work to locate myself – to understand the space around me.
Curated by Seán O'Reilly
