“Sitting at a slight angle to me, looking very slightly, thoughtfully upwards, she reminds me of a Leonardo da Vinci portrait –Lady with an Ermine (1489-90), perhaps.”
Desmond’s practice uses Super 8 film to document neglected areas of the cityscape and to expose the hidden significances of the nature found within it.
Their artworks establish conceptual frameworks for working with space within built environments by utilising different methods that are related to abstract qualities in artworks that are embedded in the nature of spatial and social perception.