Welcome to Vintage Works!

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The current project is a sculptural piece based on the DeLorean DMC12 commissioned by Kerry artist Sean Lynch. Sean has carried out an extensive study into the history of the infamous Irish marque and written a short publication on this industrial saga.

Read on to view an extract from that publication, and  Vintage Works’ involvement!

Using traditional handforming metalwork techniques {Vintage Works} has set about making a wooden mould in the shape of a DeLorean car and forming out of stainless steel grade 304 a bootleg version of the exterior body panels.

Crimping, wheeling, welding and hammering out the shapes, the work has been labour intensive, producing by hand what was once made through industrial means by the tooling now in Kilkieran Bay.

This transposition points towards a kind of contingency in putting elements of this history to work, literally, in a speculative form. Will this version of the DMC-12 be entirely remade? How can art ‘re-enact’ an entrepreneurial act such as DeLorean’s? And what forms of objecthood can be established through the transmission of historical and economic knowlage?

Sean Lynch

Thanks for taking the time to read this – the first post of Vintage Works! I trust you will return again in the near future to see what else we have going on!