At Sea, The Daily Practice of Swimming, Gary Coyle

The copy is reduced in price due to slight damage on the cover.

This book was printed to accompany At Sea Performance at the Project Arts Centre Dublin 2009 and At Sea Exhibition at The Royal Hibernian Academy Dublin 2010. Essays by Patrick Murphy, Maeve Connolly, Dr Mia Lerm Hayes and Gary Coyle.

For over a decade Gary Coyle has photographically recorded his daily swimming ritual at the Forty Foot promontory in Dublin and has documented, in his notebooks and diaries, the mood of the sea and the idiosyncrasies of the characters who swim there regularly. 

'What and how will all this activity add up? That is truly the intriguing question that surrounds this work. For the moment, it is too close, Coyle presses our faces against the window and we are too contorted by the teeming wonder of his vision to catch sight of what it all might mean. Perhaps this is the artist’s intention to so obsessively and diversely present information both documentary and aesthetic that we are balanced, our reason thrown into the sea alongside him and we bob and float with all of the beauty of the risk and danger of swimming with our own mortality.'
(Words by Patrick Murphy, RHA Director, extract from catalogue essay)

Published by Kevin Kavanagh Gallery
Edition of 750
Hardcover
120 pages
245 x 195 mm
ISBN 9780956053800