Artworks

Brian Duggan's levelled stone power-plant designs explore the social history of the atom and the nuclear debate in Ireland. It is a polemic that is mirrored and reverberated from our microcosmic local scenario to a global scale. The use of stones, solid slate and solid marble, deepen the connection of this polemic to a consciousness of geological time and geological depositories.

The stone power plants in ‘Fight the Power (Station)’ and ‘Suitable sites, are Duggan’s own design reimagining a specific solution that was proposed for the energy crisis. The original plans, which became a catalyst for a grass roots protest movement, were drawn by and unknown architect of engineer and suitable sites were investigated around Ireland, with Carnsore Point in Wexford selected initially.

Duggan’s work takes us through the many layers of our geological, social and industry history. It digs deep into our earth’s elements with the use of metamorphic and sedimentary rock derived from mud and volcanic ash millions of years ago, to the floating constructs of the atomic history and nuclear power.