John Hurrell – 29 July, 2026
Darragh's brilliant sculpture is simple but very powerful. We reluctantly laugh through clenched teeth, for most of us realise how seriously ill our planet is, and how now it may be too late to fix. The cascading chunder is quite a disturbing sight, yet the complementary colours of the blue ball on the orange chair are an artfully pleasing combination, offset by the black circle on the floor.
Found in Judy Darragh’s Pool exhibition currently seen at Two Rooms (22 July - 17 August 2026), this amusing-but-chilling sculpture (Globe) shows a spherical planet earth vomiting sick while reclining in a child’s plastic playroom chair. In this actually very serious critique of humankind’s planetary neglect, a kid’s naïve innocence is crudely replaced by involuntary physical retching and overt expulsion of a stomach’s contents.
Darragh’s brilliant sculpture is simple but very powerful. We reluctantly laugh through clenched teeth, for most of us realise how seriously ill our planet is, and how now it may be too late to fix. The cascading chunder is quite a disturbing sight, yet the complementary colours of the blue ball on the orange chair are an artfully pleasing combination, offset by the black circle on the floor.
The point of the work is not overstated, for the polar hole from which the liquid gushes is not a delineated mouth or anus with vomit or dysentary. It is precise and squeaky clean geometry, while also highly disgusting in its important message.
John Hurrell
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