Moon over a Mayo Landscape, Seaworks

A moon shrouded in shadows emits a mystical glow, illuminating an enigmatic landscape...

"Inspired by the idea of nature leaving its mark on the man-made object, Kenny started cutting up bottles to create his works."

Working without a camera, Kenny creates small plates or slides laden with objects found on his wanderings – leaves, flowers, shells and rocks. Each plate is then scanned to produce abstract large-scale photographs rich with opalescent colours, which take on the form of imagined landscapes.

Kenny’s ‘O Hanami’ series is named after the Japanese festival that celebrates the few short days of cherry blossom blooms before they are swept away by the wind.

“I sought out beauty and fragility in the scraps of gathered material, mindful of my concerns about the landscape and the scars and marks left by man as the land is ordered and shaped, clipped and manicured,” Kenny says of the series." - R, Seymour, British Journal of Photography, 2016.