CJ Mahony's practice is centred around installation and sculpture. Her work takes the form of fully immersive installations, incorporating the human figure in the guise of those who enter the space.

CJ is interested in how the scale and proportion of constructed pieces relate to architectural space. "Dark Room", for example, accentuated the claustrophobia of a space with limited dimensions. The exterior world surrounding the site can also provide a context both for the creation of the work and for the viewing of it.

Her work also seeks to provoke active responses in its audience, thereby affecting the environment that engendered it. It breaks down the familiarity people think they have with a space. "Dissolution Of Identities", housed in a disused block of artists' studios fused the history of those studios with elements that accentuated or violated the way in which the space was compartmentalized and experienced by the observer.

By exploring the psychologies of time and space; limiting the time a viewer spends in a space or leading them through it using visual triggers, CJ creates a unique experience for each individual: the boundaries between what is fixed and what is chance are blurred.

"Possible Worlds" Aurora International Arts Festival 2007
"Dark Room" Enter Arts Festival 2007
"Dissolution Of Identities" Wysing Arts Centre 2006
"an untidy condition" Taxi Gallery 2005
"Hedben Bridge" Sculpture Trail 2005

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