Sculpture
The exploration of materials is essential to Condon's sculptural practice. Her works fluctuate between exposing trace marks, imprints, and residues, and obscuring commonplace domestic items and surfaces through methods such as taping and covering with wax, latex, and paper clay. These meticulously crafted individual elements are combined with collections of detritus to form Condon's expansive mounds of accumulations.
House Skins.
Latex imprints taken from house bricks.
The process of peeling back revealing residue marks including builders pencil markings.
Condon often explores the softness of materials in contrast to the hardness and rigidity of building structures.
Bathroom Exoskeleton: Tape regularly features in Condon's works and is used as a method of mapping and tracing domestic spaces.
Taping up her bathroom and then later removing.
The bathroom taping acts much like an exoskeleton. It was relocated to the studio taking on its own form.
The Devil is in the Detail.
Detail "Domestic Skins," 2024. house bricks hand painted in layers and layers of beeswax assembled together with bristles.
Detail "Domestic Skins," 2024. handmade paper with trace marks from window-screen mesh.
Detail "Domestic Skins," 2024. clear tape moulds from armchair.
Detail "Domestic Skins," 2024. household items concealed under layers of tape and latex.
Detail "under the bed," 2024. latex, foam, carpet and carpet underlay layers.
Photograph: Robin Wood Images. Detail "Inter-Vene: Re-En-Vision: paper skins," 2024. tissue paper and stockings coated in and handpainted with beeswax.
Detail "Domestic Skins," 2024. hair.
Detail "Domestic Skins," 2024. latex remnants and home grown oyster mushrooms dipped in beeswax.
Photograph: Robin Wood Images Detail "Inter-Vene:Re-En-Vision," 2024. Latex brick wall imprint.