“I am drawn to and explore the possibilities of materials that display a richness of visual quality, sometimes marked by use and time, and carrying the patina of their history”
For artist Mary Nagle the everyday and ordinary possess infinite possibilities. Drawn to the seemingly inconsequential and the disregarded, she sees the beauty in worn and thrown-away natural and man-made objects – the hard labour undertaken by the wearer of a pair of well-worn utility gloves (found carefully folded and inserted into a gap in a stone wall), a beautifully crafted iron stand from another era and glistening sea glass from another land. Imagining prior use and personal histories, Nagle treasures them as repositories of memory. Valued for the stories they tell, she uses them to form abstract compositions an
The Glucksman Library at the University of Limerick is now one of the most digitally advanced libraries in the world, writes Judith Hill
