Clodagh Molloy (Irland) - Designer (Plus One Group Exhibition)

Brooch, copper, enamel and steel pin.

I have taken a series of photos of the institutional buildings of a former mental asylum Grangegorman, Dublin, and transformed them through enamels into a small series of brooches, trying to convey the images of the building on a brick framework. I want to capture the fragile nature of the buildings before they were demolished or rebuilt. The decaying and unstable buildings were comparable to the crumbling minds of its former patents.

Brooch, copper, enamel and steel pin.

Brooch, copper, enamel and steel pin.