Dara McGrath is interested in exploring the transitional lives of spaces, those in-between places where architecture, landscape and the built environment often intersect, and where a dialogue – of absence rather than presence – is created. His work takes as its starting point Foucault’s observation that spaces are “saturated with qualities” and are neither lifeless nor neutral. His practice is driven by explorations of these charged, shifting entities – buildings that have come to the end of their functionality, the changing functionality of a landscape, human interruptions in the landscape - that exist in urban, rural and suburban contexts. Recent exhibitions and interventions include: In the City, Chaoyang Park (Beijing 2008), Ev+A 2008 (curated by Hou Hanru), Let’s Go (RHA, Dublin 2008), Two Minds (artist+ architect collaboration at GT Gallery, Belfast and Irish Architectural Gallery Dublin, 2007), ‘Beyond the Country’ (Lewis-Glucksman Gallery, Cork, 2007), ‘Thru Irish Eyes’, (Beijing Institute of Art & Design, 2007), Kaunas Photo Days 07, (Lithuania), Indensitat ’07, (Barcelona), E.U. Eyes on Japan, Iwate Museum of Modern Art (Japan, 2006.) ‘Boundaries’ (Uberbau Gallerie, Düsseldorf, 2005) and ‘Making Things Better’, East ‘05 (U.K.) For more information please visit www.daramcgrath.com and www.daramcgrath.blogspot.com