Opinion, 2010
Cardboard, tape, filler, paint, varnish
courtesy of the artist and Mary Mary Gallery, Glasgow

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The work of ALEANA EGAN which comprises sculptures, collages and drawings, evokes abstract forms and is made from simple, relatively raw materials (chosen for both their aesthetic qualities and inherent structural qualities, how they sit, fall, cut and are malleable)  which she assembles and transforms using manual techniques such as dyeing and bonding.

Imagining shapes as traces and memories, she often relates her sculptures to the exhibition space by incorporating selected architectural features in a modified way into the formal structure of her works. It is often the gaps and impressions of architecture that EGAN focuses on rather than the whole and as a result we are only offered glances: the sculptures attempting at something just previous to intellectualizing, a record of a first and initial response before complete understanding.

ALEANA EGAN was born in Dublin in 1979 and lives between Berlin and Dublin. Recent solo exhibitions include Mary Mary, Glasgow (2011), Drawing Room, London (2011), Mole Vanvitelliana, Ancona (2010), Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin and Art Basel Statements (2009)and Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland (2008).