Ciaran uses grids, stencils, masking tape and a limited colour palette that show the process of the making - where elements don’t quite align - to create distortion, depth and negative spaces. Around those marks new patterns emerge and the work takes on a metaphysical aspect; one where the viewer creates a sense of something else being there, something more than what is merely visible.
He is interested not just in what we see, but how we see it; where perception becomes the medium.
Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not just in the eye; it is in the mind. It is our positive response to life.
Agnes Martin
