Orion’s Jumper- New Artist in Residence

Elva Carri is the new artist in resident in The Good Hatchery. In June 2008 Elva graduated from the Limerick school of Art and Design with a first class honours in sculpture and combined media. Since graduation she has been involved in a number of projects including ‘Wheels Beneath Toys’ a collaborative project with Jessica Foley exhibited in This is Not a Shop as part of the Dublin Fringe Festival. Elva’s practice includes video, sculpture and installation in which she often employs a childlike language in an effort to expose a darker force at work in our society.

“Since arriving at The Good Hatchery, as well as settling in, acclimatising and learning to kick wood apart for the fire I have been researching the history and concept of the fairytale and attempting to find manifestations of comparable stories in the present-day: In the time of fairy tales like Little Red Riding Hood and The Three Little Pigs, the wolf was not merely a metaphor but a real threat to peoples’ livestock and thus to their lives. We still mistake wolves for nice old Grannies and build houses of straw that are easily huffed and puffed down, but the wolf is not so tangible. I am using newspaper headlines to find the wolves that threaten our lives today in the hope of piecing together our complicated, contemporary fairytale.