The Queen still falls to you is an immersive sculptural installation animated by a sound and light composition. The sculptures are composed of Cinefoil casts of existing public sculptures and monuments in Sydney, Australia – the current home – and Dublin, Ireland, the former home of the massive sculpture of Queen Victoria who presides at the centre of the installation.
This monument to Victoria was first installed in Dublin in 1904, unceremoniously removed in 1945 and placed in storage for 40 years before the city of Sydney paid for its transportation to be installed in front of a shopping mall in Australia in 1987.
The Queen still falls to you returns the “famine Queen” to Ireland in the hollow, fragmented and deconstructed form of Cinefoil impressions.
The sculptures (The Queen, Pallbearers, Stretcher Bearers, and Tomb) are animated by a sound and light composition evoking the crowds that call a monarch into power, demand her dethronement, and mourn her passing.
Publication: The Queen still falls to you, Forms of Imagining, Project Press, Dublin, Ireland, 2016. With essay by Emer Lynch.