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Gather, Wood.

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FÀP ESSAYS · PROFILE
04 / 2023

GATHER,
WOOD.

Artist — Niamh O'Malley
Perfumer — Géraldine Ignesta
Medium — Sculpture
Status — Available

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

Niamh O'Malley works with glass, wood, steel, and stone — materials so familiar you can anticipate their touch and weight, and place them immediately within your surroundings. For Ireland's Pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale (2022), she presented Gather, an exhibition on how we pause, attend to, and gather around objects. Asked whether scent could ever be sculpture, she answered: “Scent is quite spacious. It occupies space.” The fragrance translates wood as material and metaphor — soft, muted, an invitation to slow down.

MUSKY · DRY WOOD

MATERIALS
angelica seed, elemi, bergamot, iris, carrot seed, ambrette, black pepper, cedar on iris, sandalwood, white musk

Each bottle carries its own artwork. Request a preference at checkout.
Arrives in its handcrafted box from Hokkaido.

Read our conversation with Niamh O'Malley. → INTERVIEW
Prefer to begin smaller? → DISCOVERY
The full story lives in the archive. → ARCHIVE

FÀP ESSAYS · PROFILE
04 / 2023

GATHER,
WOOD.

Artist — Niamh O'Malley
Perfumer — Géraldine Ignesta
Medium — Sculpture
Status — Available

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

Niamh O'Malley works with glass, wood, steel, and stone — materials so familiar you can anticipate their touch and weight, and place them immediately within your surroundings. For Ireland's Pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale (2022), she presented Gather, an exhibition on how we pause, attend to, and gather around objects. Asked whether scent could ever be sculpture, she answered: “Scent is quite spacious. It occupies space.” The fragrance translates wood as material and metaphor — soft, muted, an invitation to slow down.

MUSKY · DRY WOOD

MATERIALS
angelica seed, elemi, bergamot, iris, carrot seed, ambrette, black pepper, cedar on iris, sandalwood, white musk

Each bottle carries its own artwork. Request a preference at checkout.
Arrives in its handcrafted box from Hokkaido.

Read our conversation with Niamh O'Malley. → INTERVIEW
Prefer to begin smaller? → DISCOVERY
The full story lives in the archive. → ARCHIVE

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

Gather, Wood.

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

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

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

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