Phoenix Park Stag

Phoenix Park Stag marks a departure from pure architectural abstraction, introducing a natural subject — the fallow deer that have inhabited Dublin's Phoenix Park for centuries — within Kavanagh's characteristically restrained formal language. Printed in mokuhanga, the stag is likely rendered with economy of line, the animal's silhouette or antlered profile distilled to its essential shape against a spare ground. The Phoenix Park itself carries mythological weight through its name, and the stag in European heraldic and Irish cultural tradition carries associations with wildness and landscape. Kavanagh's treatment likely holds the figurative and abstract in productive tension, locating a specific Dublin creature within a broader formal investigation.