Safe Space
2024
Safe Space is an installation exploring ideas of housing security, food security and surveillance. This work was made in the Converge Space Lismore window gallery as part of an ongoing Residency and Professional development program.
Vibrascopic
'Vibrascopic' 2023
Installation.
'Vibrascopic' is a 3m long 3D kaleidoscope that opens a portal to a moving visual prism - using various naturally occurring waves of energy filmed through science experiments of light, colour, frequency and sound.
This work was presented for the UN[contained] Festival 2023 for Georges River City Council
Special thanks to Abstract Plastics for help with part fabrication and HVG Graphics Media for the specialty projector film.
Image: Courtesy of Georges River Council. Photographer: Maxwell Photography.
sumbállō,
2022-2023, digital prints from paper collage.
Through investigating visual histories in art, human society and spirituality, sumbállō the Ancient Greek meaning for symbol (“I throw together”) is expressed and represented in collage as a methodology.
The collage process, much like the ancient Greek word, uses a frenetic combination of selected idea’s of scientific, sculptural and the mystic forms to throw together and generate a new series of symbols. Seeking inclusions from early homosapien to bronze age humans, into the renaissance man and science of today. McGarry’s collage’s include these links to the past in a present metaphysical space. By generating imagery of spiritual beyond Newtonian science and psychology, these works made in meditative states beckon this past/presence into a Quantum age.
A is for Allegory: Part I 2021
This series explores the concept of allegory in a contemporary context, juxtaposed against allegorical paintings and etchings from the late Renaissance to the Romantic era predominantly investigating inspiration from Cesare Ripa's Iconologia published in 1555.