'I used to be afraid of colour!' Eva Rothschild, Ireland's dockside voice in Venice

The Irish artist’s sculptures have taken her from the seafront of Dún Laoghaire to the galleries of the Tate – and now to the industrial docks of Venice

“The weird thing about Venice,” says Eva Rothschild, sitting in her Hackney studio, surrounded by crated sculptural components ready to ship to the Biennale, “is that it’s the shiniest show in the world, and everyone else has done it before, except for the artists.” It’s true: most of the 87 national pavilions at the Biennale are run by teams who set up the same space every two years like a carnival on tour. But for the artists, it’s a once in a lifetime deal.

Not that the artist, who is representing Ireland, is an ingenue. Born in Dublin in 1972, Rothschild grew up near the seafront in Dún Laoghaire. There’s something of the harbour to her sculpture, which often incorporates boldly striped poles, spindly metal frameworks, cabling and casually spray-painted boulder forms that recall improvised portside infrastructure. It should look right at home in Venice, where the Irish pavilion exits on to old industrial docks.

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