Irish Blue Limestone and Corten Steel
Each ⌀ 3m with a depth of approx. 1.8m
'The Morrígan' is a large-scale, site-responsive sculptural work composed of three blue Irish limestone erratics, encircled by three steel rings, each three metres in diameter, with a combined weight of 45-tonnes. The stones are glacial boulders, displaced by ice long before recorded history, carved and polished to expose fossil traces from an ancient sea.
The work takes its name from the Morrígan, a triadic figure in Irish mythology associated with consequence and irreversible moments. Three stones and three rings are held in a state of tension and restraint.
Three rings, rolled from 50 mm steel plate, form closed circuits around the stone. Precise and industrial, they stabilise while simultaneously constraining. The stone endures; the steel governs. Together they establish a condition of uneasy containment.
Installed as a public-facing work during the 2022 Nevill Holt Opera Festival, the sculpture aligns with the rising solstice sun, entering a lineage of monuments oriented toward celestial measure. Light passes through the work not as renewal but exposure.
