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​Previous Work

Bog Spell 2025

Emerging Narratives 2024 with soundcloud link

This Is How I Pray 2024

In Toto 2024

2025

Bog Spell |”Bloodroot”|Hamilton Gallery & Embassy of Ireland, The Hague, The Netherlands, Pulchri Studio, the Hague, Netherlands.

 

Iron rich ash from burnt peat turf, human breath as photographs.

30cm x 30cm

2025

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Bog Spell I & II were created in response to the Open Call “Bloodroot” from Hamilton Gallery Sligo and The Embassy of Ireland, The Netherlands. Female artists were invited to respond to selected poems by Annemarie Ní Churreáin from her 2017 publication Bloodroot. One of my favourite living poets, and luckily my favourite poem from this collection was on the list.

 

Bog Spell I & II are in response to Bog Medicine by Annemarie Ní Churreáin

 

Bog Medicine

Drink these star-leafed nettles

And keep in your purse a fern.

 

To become invisible, say your harm

To the hill.

 

This hill is pagan.

This hill is Hill.

 

It will answer in bog-tongue

And occasional fire,

Burning back the earth

Along the heather-stream

 

despite bald heels of rock,

despite the kissy mink,

despite a saintly air

 

until the stream runs dark

with what needs

to blacken out of you.

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Emerging Narratives | STAC Chapel 2024

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Historical and current photographs, marker on geotextile and fabric, oars and boat floor, boat building paraphernalia, sound piece with interactive elements. Process Zine and postcard collection.

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Variable dimensions. 2024

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Social Engagement & Practice Mentorship Programme - Building for the Future from STAC and Creative Ireland.

Over six months, I received mentorship from Deirdre O’Mahony, Kate O’Shea, Evelyn Broderick &  Enya Moore. I spent the final two of those months, working with The Workmen’s Boat Club in Clonmel.  We explored the River Suir from the perspective of the members, most of whom have spent their entire lives on the river. We mapped out the stretch of river that the club uses and gathered place names and stories, and a host of species which they both see regularly and have not seen in years.

These stories were also woven into the sound piece with the interactive pieces being accessible via scanning QR Codes.

 

Further sculptural elements were supplied by the use of boat and boat building paraphernalia supplied by the Club for the duration of exhibition.

 

SOUNDPIECE which was on loop throughout exhibition. QR Code pieces are not included here.

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This Is How I Pray |  La Pocha Nostra Performance presented by Live Art Ireland, The Source Arts Centre, Thurles.  2024

 

New Prayer, glass vessels and charred sculptures

Live and unrecorded

2024 

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Meditative live performance as part of gathering of invited performance artists. Instigated and presented by La Pocha Nostra.

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In Toto | Zeitgeist Irland 24,  “Meant To Fade” , Saarbruken, Germany. WITHDRAWN

K-Fest 2024 &  An Chead Tine, “Lines of The Land”, Kilkenny. 2024

 

Charred peat, Iranian red ochre, Kilkenny limestone, dripping water at a rate of 30 drips per minute.

2m x 65cm

2024

Water drips in a concealed circulatory system and drips continuously over Kilkenny limestone covered in Iranian red ochre, until eventually, water erodes away the ochre to reveal stone beneath. Structure is cloaked in creased paper, coated with charred peat, peat brought to its carbon self.

The execution of this piece was poor, however, the method of controlling the water drip was a success as was the action of erosion.

 

iranian red ochre (500 million years old) is washed from

kilkenny limestone (340 million years old) by

water (4.5 billion years old) enclosed by

raised bed peat (forming for the last 10 thousand years)

 

 

iranian red ochre – human, homo from humus meaning living soil

kilkenny limestone – formed while this landmass sits on equator under warm tropical sea

water – formed in space as tiny dust particles, human bodies are more than half water

raised bed peat – significant part of vegetation landscape, forming from end of last ice age

 

 

iranian red ochre – take in / soul song / ingest to heal

kilkenny limestone – foundations / layer lines / memory holder

water – everywhere all at once

raised bed peat – holder of storylines

 

 

copper pipes (circulation, drip)

water pump (circulation, electricity)

wood and paper (structure)

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