First shown in Ireland at Cork's Lavit Gallery, curated by Stephen O'Connell last year. This body of oak furniture, the Residual Geometry series, comes from a single tree that grew at Alan's ancesteral home in Ireland

In an essay written for Alan's solo show in Ireland, Architect Stephen Tierney wrote of this work. "There is a juxtaposition between the turned vessels and the sculptural furniture but also a key connection, they are both revealed forms. The furniture or Geometries are like the diagrams from wooden ship building manuals that show how to disassemble a tree and identify the crooks and joints that will provide the knees and braces for a boat's ribs and decks, the hidden structures. This most essential heartwood core of a tree's form, is shaped by the local climate, exposed and then used again for a different structural challenge. These Geometries are on the edge of being furniture, liminal, they play with familiar dimensions; seat heights and table levels, but they give none of the comfortable reassurances we expect, they are not ready to accommodate us, we hesitate. And as we examine our eyes will naturally find resonances between the natural world and the human body, in this instance our eyes flicker between seeing furniture or human forms, semi-human perhaps, frozen like the moulds of Pompeii's Roman victims, with limbs and like the turned vessels having a sense of their own gravity."