Skerries Art Trail: Liliane Puthod - Lunch Break
Artist Liliane Puthod
Title Lunch Break
Materials Sandstone with hand painted finish and bronze cast elements
Dimensions Approx. 270cm x 120cm x 37cm
Location Green area between South Strand Street and the Walking Trail along Skerries South Beach
[Artist’s Production Partners: Artists Jackie McKenna and Tim Morris]
Liliane Puthod’s public art project as part of Skerries Art Trail is called Lunch Break.
The artwork combines a carefully selected piece of sandstone with a hand painted finish, along with bronze cast elements.
Liliane’s artwork is a hybrid of three main characters – the human, the seagull and the vending machine.
The body of the sculpture, based on the shape of a vending machine, and includes details in the sandstone that have been hand carved by the artist. This is fused with the oversized legs of a seagull, as well as a precisely placed electrical cable, used to ‘plug in the machine’, both made from cast bronze.
Artist’s comment: “Taking the idea of productivity in relation to inactivity as a starting point, I explored sculptural forms and materials that captured both the passage of time connected to work and also individuals in the context of Skerries. Lunch Break as an object appears to be lying back, taking a moment of rest, having unplugged from the hustle and bustle of a busy day”
Biography:Liliane Puthod
Liliane Puthod (b. 1986, France, she/her) lives and works in Dublin and graduated with a Master in Fine Arts at HEAD Geneva. She makes sculptures and large-scale interventions or what might be deemed to be a subversive appropriation of objects, images and texts by using both industrial materials and handmade processes as a way to confront archaeological and commodified times.
Selected exhibitions: New considerations of familiar settings, Newbridge House, Donabate (2021), Woman in the Machine, VISUAL (2021), Dissolving Histories: An Unreliable Presence, Golden Thread Gallery (2020); How Long After Best Before, Pallas Projects/Studios (2019); Everything Must Go, PS2, Belfast (2019). Awards: IMMA Residency, A Radical Plot (2021), Project Studio, Temple Bar Gallery+Studios (2020/21); Arts Council of Ireland Visual Arts Bursary; Summer Studio Residency, TUD, Dublin (2019).