‘I am a visual artist working in expanded drawing, printmaking, social practice and ephemeral installation. My work interrogates place and how the topography and geography of a site can inform and create culture.’
My practice is concerned with interacting with geography and people in specific sites to create material representations of these encounters. This articulates itself in drawing, ephemeral public installations and sculptural paper cut-out pieces. Looking at cartography and through collaborations with others I create a subjective record of a place in time using analog techniques.
I work in a pared down way using mainly paper, pigment or other impermanent materials for my ephemeral site specific work. Walks, social history and topography combine to produce a visual relational geography.
I have recently been embedded artist in residence on the TOCHAIL project, in the Iveragh peninsula looking at the rural housing crisis, part of the Creative Places initiative supported by Create, the Arts Council and Údarás na Gaeltachta. Other recent projects include an artist book project Rinn Aun, looking at Dublin Bay’s fishing heritage printed in the National Print Museum, this project is supported by The Design & Crafts Council of Ireland and The Irish Museums Trust.
I was previously DCU Artist in Residence where I created a body of work on the local geography in response to the research of Dr. Ruth Mc Manus, Associate Professor of Geography. I live and work in Dublin, Ireland.