I’m very happy to have work in several great shows at the moment: Highlanes Gallery in Drogheda, SO Fine Art Editions in Dublin and Dlr Lexicon in Dun Laoire.

Text below posted by Highlanes Gallery:

Conor Horgan
Flag no. 66
60 x 45cm
On loan from the artist

Exploring the impact of humanity on the natural world, this work depicts a skeletal frame structure of a building with trees enclosed. The abandoned building has now been reclaimed and recaptured by nature. Green trees flourish from within the structure, showing the forces of nature and its resilience in wake of the war waged upon it by mankind. The image invites the viewer to question aspects of human behaviour in the face of the inevitable ecological crisis, a crisis which recognises no borders.

Flag no.66 is part of a larger body of photographic work- Post State. Horgan’s flag images acknowledge these complexities of Anthropocene existence. Rooted as they are in an all-too-real climate of rising temperatures and political extremism, the images in Post-State are part of a personal attempt to come to terms with this global crisis. These images, saturated, crisp and uncanny, blur the lines between documentary and dystopia. They carry us through portals, across boundaries, inside the abandoned and toward the unknown. Their keenly observed compositions juxtapose the constructed and the organic, bearing witness to the aftermath. The landscape, unpeopled, appears to be the sole survivor; post-capitalist, post-breakdown, post-state.

TRAce – Artist Teacher Researcher Curate

The exhibition explores our relationship and impact on place. It is concerned with our personal and social connection to our environment and how sites become imprinted over time. It continues until Saturday 9th September and is open Tuesday-Saturday 10.30am-5pm, and on Summer Sundays until the 27th August.