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Artist Statement

As a multidisciplinary artist, I explore the relationship between identity and place using my body as a subject to interrogate how they influence and expand on one another. My work is rooted in places that hold personal significance to me, that evoke internal responses and become spaces for expression and introspection. I work with graphite, ink, paint, photography, digital editing, and video, approaching each medium with a ritualistic, repetitive, and methodical process. These slow, intentional methods allow me to engage in contemplative making, where the act of making becomes a means of self exploration.

 

With my work I aim to invite viewers into a similar space of reflection, where deeply personal themes can resonate as uniquely individual experiences to others. As my practice evolves, I aim to further explore video and sound, incorporating sensory and immersive elements, to create atmospheric installations that ground the viewer in both a place and a feeling.

“Nature is a tool to get children to experience not just the wider world, but themselves” – Stephen Moss

Cad a dhéanfhaimid? (What Will We Do?)

This video piece was one of the final works for our 3rd Year exhibition 'Tethered and Becoming'.

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Compulsion Series

An exploration of the routines and mental detours that shape how we cope, focus, and move through our lives. Thoughts that both ground us, yet endlessly repeat.

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Coill Series

This body of work explores the irony of feeling 'at home' in a man-made non-native forest. It explores how the woods acts like a socially fluid space where actions do not have the same consequences as everyday life

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