Props 1 Sculpture

Gerard Carson is a visual artist based in Belfast, Northern Ireland, who works in sculpture, collage, and video. He graduated from the University of Ulster School of Art & Design in 2010, studying in BA Fine Art. Carson has had works exhibited in Germany, France, the UK, and the Republic of Ireland. He is a member of Array Studios and Catalyst Arts Gallery, both situated in Belfast City. Carson's work takes form through a precarious catenation of interconnecting substances that mimic architectural and technological forms, where the object or construction presents a minimalist facade, underneath which a network of feedback loops exists. He is interested in the development of this abstraction that has come about in tandem with the rise of computing technology. The utilitarian machine for the use of specialists has become a ubiquitous minimalist device, situated within the homogeneity of a wireless environment. By using ephemeral materials (cardboard, paper, tinfoil, found images/video), he attempts to give reference to this environment of ephemeral data, which exists in a simultaneous dichotomy of both the physical and the ethereal.