Rhiannon Elliott 

Rhiannon Elliott’s work is a response to the changing material and social landscape of Dublin’s city centre. From November 2019 to October 2020, she documented processes of demolition and construction at various locations around the city. In particular she focused on locations where popular venues, such as The Bernard Shaw and the Tivoli Theatre, once existed. She has also studied residential housing estates that are quickly becoming encased by new developments. Her documentation of these locations provides the basis for a series of large-scale drawings, created with media such as pencil and carbon paper, which capture the movement and repeating patterns of scaffolding. Using the absent venues as the main characters within her project, she highlights the decline and demise of public spaces, and the displacement of long-standing residential homes by hotels and empty apartment complexes.