.SAATCHI GALLERY

CARAGH THURING 2008

General Scenes of Unloading & 409

.PRIMARY PHOTOS (TAKEN FROM GALLERY):

.PRIMARY PHOTOS (TAKEN FROM GALLERY):

ANALYSIS OF WORK:On my visit to the Saatchi Gallery, I found the work of Caragh Thuring’s two pieces very enticing and attractive. Initial thoughts when viewing the canvases was that both of them had a very light and natural landscape like element within them. After close inspection, the first piece shows a crane, chains and other objecs associated with construction. Whilst on the ‘409’ canvas, the first thing which caught my eye was the composition of the black lines and the greatly texture background on the piece.

Thuring’s interest for the UK’s industry of construction efforts and engineering is evident in her piece. The skills and equipment needed in order to perform relatively simple tasks proves a great fascination for Thuring, as she finds that the docklands (London) are a complete eco-system where each element has a function that is part of an interdependent network. She explores the functions of construction and geometry within the piece by painting seperate fragment pieces of ‘snapshots’ of different elements such as barriers and pipes, creating a bigger picture for the viewer to appreciate. Whilst she has used warm colours on a big proportion of the canvas, the elements of engineering are highlighted in contrasting colours of black and red which could portray the confinding relationship of todays society in ratio of natural surroundings and the developmentof construction in London.

In the ‘409’ piece, it is clear that the canvas shows a birds-eye view like captured moment. The piece features a building, mountain, aircraft and a series of black lines which is spread throughout the whole composition. The black line retraces the actual flight path of a glider over the Alps. Thuring has created height and depth in this piece as because each element is rendered independently and the scale of each object differs to create a type of perspective when the audience is viewing the work. The white painted dripping effect layered behind also helps create an increased amount of texture and contrasts to the smoothness of the flight path.