eilidh mcnair

EILIDH MCNAIR
OVERLAYS

My site-responsive installations, sculptures, and wall-drawings deal with the conventions of perspective, geometric forms and the architectural spaces we move through. Drawing is central to my work as an exploration of space and form. Often my installations are drawings converted into three dimensions - formations of aluminium sheets, multiple strips of VHS tape, painted wooden forms, and lines of spray paint extending over different surfaces.

Incorporating existing architectural features, the original spaces are added to, highlighted, manipulated, or obscured in an effort to set up a duality between reference and obstruction. These works could not exist without their surroundings, yet they transform and consume them.

Applying linear and geometric patterns directly onto the wall, or onto sculptural elements, is a way of superimposing another perspective onto the existing. These works use the methods of anamorphic drawing and trompe l'oeil as an exploration of drawing conventions and spatial awareness. Adding an altered perspective onto an existing one creates a dichotomy between the actual and the represented and could be seen as destructive in its disregard of the underlying structure.