As It Is

Exhibition: 25th – 30th June 2022

The Painting Building, The Royal College of Art, 12-15 Howie Street, Battersea London SW114AN

As It Is, RCA Grad Show MA Painting

The work responds to economic, scientific/antibiotic and sociological research. It is inspired and informed by research at LSE and Imperial College London and Dublin City University respectively.

Using video, installation and painting, in oil on linen and acrylic on canvas, Mulchrone seeks to operate in a time lag between the objective and the subjective.

“A code for something... Hiding. Overlaid with layers. Why the concealment? Someone or something hiding data? What’s the data doing? Dots to a grid. Dots and lines all hiding. Are they hiding from me as I look at them? A kind of embarrassment perhaps?

Build that wall and watch to see if it keeps them out. Don’t let them slip from vision... Keep the observations close to the eye. Start with numbers and feed it through the process… You’ve been there. A body and a mark through a process for prediction. A mark in the past trying to figure out some sense of the future.”

Extract from text written by Jesse Ash, an artist and tutor at the Royal College of Art, London.