The Pallasboy Project
Channel: Recording Archaeology
Date: 23/05/2016

The Pallasboy Project aims to explore craft and creativity and the connections between past and present, by practical experiment, using the skills of contemporary master woodworker Mark Griffiths to carve a replica of the ‘Pallasboy Vessel'. Mark, who has experience in remaking historical artefacts, carried out the work at UCC using hand tools, comparing replica Iron Age tools and contemporary equivalents. Brian Mac Domhnaill recorded this work, focusing on the visual, aural and textural details of both object and process. Also of interest was the incidental and previously unrecorded aesthetics and associated effect of the
crafting process, both for the maker and observers. The documentation strategy was to be thorough and functional, with scope for development throughout the project, responding to
processes of interest. In keeping with the practice of the project artist, the resulting archive of photographs and video footage will be scrutinised, edited and distilled into independently valid artistic output that will serve to engage the general public on an aesthetic and experiential level.

Benjamin GEAREY and Brian MACDOMHNAILL (University College, Cork, Ireland)