Artist, living and working in Liverpool, who attended Ruskin School of Fine Art, Oxford, 1996–9. Ireland made sculptural objects and installations using everyday items of household furniture and hardware juxtaposed with landscape images culled from magazines, picture books and tourist guides. At times this combination created an allusive and wistful scene which, while offering an escape, could frustrate because of the fragility of the illusion. Ireland won an Acid Fund Portfolio Development Award in 2000. Exhibitions included Big Warm Open, Cambridge Darkroom Gallery, 1999; How we built the world, Hanover Galleries, Liverpool, which he curated, 2000; Double Take, Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth, 2001; and Unscene, Gasworks Gallery, 2002. In that year f a projects held its first solo show of Ireland’s work, shortly after he completed a residency at La Friche, Marseilles, France, and prior to his making a major room installation at the Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool.