Emer O’Brien currently lives and works in London.  Her subject demonstrates an enduring interest in the dark flipside of modernism: social failure, urban decay, abandonment and alienation.  It is a vision from the edge of the great beyond, a desert in which the sands of time have eroded and washed away all but the most rudimentary traces of what stood before and have erased everything of substance, meaning and gravitas. The absence of human animation does not go unnoticed; rather her assiduous technique appears appropriate and highly experssive, precisely because these works are examples of cultural collapse and therefore more clear-cut and vivid than gradual decay.

Emer will be showing at FoodFace on Monday 12th 20.00 – 22.00