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As a sculptor, Kavanagh’s instinct is to render personal responses to life in form. For years she found inspiration within the tradition of organic abstraction, carving sculpture in the manner of Arp, Brancusi and Moore. Today, however, celebrating natural beauty per se no longer satisfies her. She feels a need to search for beauty in all aspects of nature, even those manifested by epic disasters.
The TSUNAMI PROJECT, a solo exhibition created in response to the Indian Ocean tsunami of December 26, 2004, was her first large-scale effort to attempt to reconcile water’s inherent fluid grace with its horrific capacity for destruction. Exhibited in September, 2006, at the Blue Mountain Gallery in New York, the show was favorably reviewed in the December, 2006 issue of SCULPTURE Magazine.
ARCTIC ICE MELT: moulins of my mind, a sculptural exploration of the warming of the Polar region, is Kavanagh's latest work with water. Here she imagines the effect of water cascading through ice tunnels called moulins. These tubular chutes are formed when melt water rushes through glacial crevasses. Kavanagh's moulin sculptures were previewed at The American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY during the International Polar Weekend, February 7 - 8, 2009. They were subsequently exhibited at Blue Mountain Gallery September 8 - October 3, 2009.
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