Goodbye Scarecrow by Billy Metcalfe and Siofra Dromgoole book Unique 1/1 artworks

Unique 1/1 artworks

and ideologies from other countries and continents

The artworks are installations

A series of works accompanying Melanie Jacksons current solo exhibition rouge flambé: an ongoing body of new work linking fire

Sylvie Fleury

Goodbye Scarecrow by Billy Metcalfe and Siofra Dromgoole book Unique 1/1 artworksWhy scarecrows? It was hard to answer that question at the beginning, and its almost harder now to pin down. This book is made up of Billys paintings and my poetry in dialogue; but also the poems of others, their voices credited throughout. Each approaches the object from different angles there are poems about lovers and poems about kindness, poems about nature and about hurt and about failure. One poet told me she was interested in the frictional