About

Conor McMahon is a Dublin-based sculptor, photographer, composer, interaction designer and wanderer.

He creates photographic and video works from the manifestations of geographical transience he happens upon and endeavours to document in urban, suburban and semi-rural locations in Ireland, England, Germany, North America and Brazil. He creates these works as a means to represent transience as a casual, evolving monument to our perpetual human, ‘civilised’ endeavour - forever not-quite-realized and always at least a little frayed at the edges.

Artist’s statement
From within manifestations of neglect, abandonment and dereliction I document human expressions of what I see as the uneasiness between us, and the techno-economic initiatives increasingly imposed upon us in the environments we inhabit.

Predominantly through the medium of photography, I endeavour to faithfully recreate a sense of these environments at the initial moment of happening upon them. Revisits are often required to achieve just that, as they might also afford the opportunity to further dwell within the transient atmospherics I am drawn to at these locations. 

“All of us have a place in history. Mine is clouds.” - Richard Brautigan