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Gather, Wood.

$160.00



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INCLUDES A COMPLIMENTARY
10ml / Pocket Perfume

GATHER, WOOD.
with NIAMH O’MALLEY

SCULPTURE


»An invitation to touch.
A sense of familiarity, but enough strangeness to produce a moment of attention.«

Niamh O'Malley is an Irish artist whose sculptural practice works with glass, wood, steel, and stone—materials so familiar you can anticipate their touch, perceive their weight, immediately place them within your surroundings. For Ireland's Pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale (2022), O'Malley presented Gather, an exhibition exploring how we pause, attend to, and gather around objects. When asked whether scent could ever be sculpture, given its non-tactile nature, she responded: "Scent is quite spacious. It occupies space." The fragrance translates wood as material and metaphor—soft, muted, an invitation to slow down.

Texture | SOFT, CURVED, MUTED

Character | MUSKY DRY-WOOD


MATERIALS
ANGELICA SEED, ELEMI, BERGAMOT, IRIS, CARROT SEED, AMBRETTE, BLACK PEPPER, CEDAR ON IRIS, SANDALWOOD, WHITE MUSK


PERFUMER
Géraldine Ignesta

YEAR
2023

IMPRINT
FÀP Essays / Interview


SELECT YOUR EDITION VARIANT
Each bottle features artwork and color variations. You may request a color preference at check out.



_
INCLUDES A COMPLIMENTARY
10ml / Pocket Perfume

GATHER, WOOD.
with NIAMH O’MALLEY

SCULPTURE


»An invitation to touch.
A sense of familiarity, but enough strangeness to produce a moment of attention.«

Niamh O'Malley is an Irish artist whose sculptural practice works with glass, wood, steel, and stone—materials so familiar you can anticipate their touch, perceive their weight, immediately place them within your surroundings. For Ireland's Pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale (2022), O'Malley presented Gather, an exhibition exploring how we pause, attend to, and gather around objects. When asked whether scent could ever be sculpture, given its non-tactile nature, she responded: "Scent is quite spacious. It occupies space." The fragrance translates wood as material and metaphor—soft, muted, an invitation to slow down.

Texture | SOFT, CURVED, MUTED

Character | MUSKY DRY-WOOD


MATERIALS
ANGELICA SEED, ELEMI, BERGAMOT, IRIS, CARROT SEED, AMBRETTE, BLACK PEPPER, CEDAR ON IRIS, SANDALWOOD, WHITE MUSK


PERFUMER
Géraldine Ignesta

YEAR
2023

IMPRINT
FÀP Essays / Interview


SELECT YOUR EDITION VARIANT
Each bottle features artwork and color variations. You may request a color preference at check out.

 
 
 

Niamh O’Malley’s artwork reveals a profound appreciation for the act of trying. Trying to catch a certain slant of light, trying to prove a pattern or uncover a composition, trying to fathom a mountain, trying to hold time still. Working with the moving image, mark making and sculptural materials such as glass and wood, O’Malley’s work attempts to contain and reflect the weight and wonder of the world in its becoming. It is the act of trying, in the face of predictable failure, that gives way to conviction and a sense of hope within the artist’s work. Full of reflection, both literal and metaphorical, filled with absence and framed by negative space, O’Malley’s work asserts something unstoppable about the human spirit, something that neither distance nor death can extinguish. By Kate Strain

Niamh O’Malley in her Studio at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, 2021
Photograph: Dragana Jurisic
Courtesy Ireland at Venice 2022