Bun na Spéire

Paul Kenny is a celebrated artist/photographer with an International reputation. He has been creating and developing his photographic works for half a century and has works in some of the worlds major public and private art collections.

Never shy to seek out new ways to express his unique artistic vision, over fifty years he has moved seamlessly from monochrome to colour, from analog to digital, from plein air to studio and from camera to cameraless. Now in his seventieth year his artistic journey has led to the creation of moving images.

Bun na Spéire is the first completed project and he commissioned the composer and musician Richard J Birkin to create an original score.

Now combined they are a complete art work, a meditation, a unique fifteen minute visual and aural experience.

These works are not films or animation as such. Martin Barnes, curator of photography at the V&A called them “moving stills”.

Bun na Spéire is created using seawater and scraps of metallic flotsam and jetsam collected from a beach at Downpatrick Head, Mayo. The title is an Irish language term for “horizon”, the literal English translation is “bottom of the sky”.

The film comprises a set of slowly evolving still images that hypnotise and sooth viewers over the course of fifteen minutes.