Archive of work by graduates from the renowned MFA Programme at GSA

A Mineral Dance: Or How To Become Glass (still from video)
12:22 minutes
2022
A Mineral Dance: Or How To Become Glass (still from video)
12:22 minutes
2022
The Story of White’s Whistlers (still from video)
09:15 minutes
2021
A Mineral Dance: Or How to Become Glass
3-channel video (00:12:06) beach sand, ceilp/seaweed ash, copper wire, fish glue, glass slag, glass tumblers, inkjet print on paper, kelp glass (beach sand, ceilp/seaweed ash), pyrex mixing bowl, restoration glass (made using 19th c. fourcault techniques), seaweed gin, standard float glass, stoneware, toughened glass table top
2022
A Mineral Dance: Or How to Become Glass
beach sand, ceilp/seaweed ash, fish glue, glass slag, kelp glass (beach sand, ceilp/seaweed ash), restoration glass (made using 19th c. fourcault techniques), stoneware, toughened glass table top
170cm x 100cm x 30cm
2022
A Mineral Dance: Or How to Become Glass
beach sand, ceilp/seaweed ash, stoneware
2022

Fionn Duffy

With an interest in human folly and it’s slippery definitions*, Fionn responds to the material consequences of modern mythologies surrounding labour and infrastructure, landscape and capital. She uses objects, video and text to excavate spiralling macro-narratives that explore ethical and ecological concerns that converge in porous zones of contact between bodies: chemical, mineral, cultural and historic.

Process-led and embracing autodidactic conglomerations of knowledge, Fionn attends to sympoetic methodologies to inform her practice; often working collaboratively with other artists, enthusiasts, researchers and specialists, be they human or otherwise.

*from early 13th century Middle English (from Old French folie) “foolish behaviour/wickedness/madness”, but also used in the 12th century meaning “delight”.