"Lilliput, Blefuscu, Laputa, Glubbdubdrib, Luggnagg – these were some of the fantastical places that Gulliver visited on his journeys across the world. I liked the idea of islands as a source of wonder and perhaps, contrivance - so I decided to create a new series of works on this theme. In the beginning I was painting with watercolour on birch plywood but when I began to carve into the wood, I felt that the multiple layers in the plywood reflected the many layers - the political allegory, the philosophical and cultural critique etc - in Jonathan Swift's satirical novel."

Eoin Mac Lochlainn