Onos, 2010
Car bumpers, industrial cardboard tubing, hand-stitched bedding, 180 x 180 x 50cm. Installation view at Askeaton Contemporary Arts ‘Welcome to the Neighbourhood’, Limerick, 2010
Onos is a sculptural work that imagines a low-tech ‘hippy’ production of a high-end designer bed. Specifically, the work brings together two design references from the late 1960’s; Drop City, a notorious hippy commune who used scrapyard materials to construct their homes, and the progressive design and architecture collective, Superstudio, who produced the original moulded fibre-glass Onos bed.
