I am an Irish artist currently living and working between Dublin and Rotterdam. I have just completed my MFA at the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam (2019/21). Since finishing my MFA, I have been reassembling what my art practice is and how I wish to approach it. This has resulted in my approach to making art to become research and experience lead. I work in many mediums that tend to come together in installations and relate to photography and its wider relations. I use installation as an approach to merge many types of material and media together in order to approach the complexity of ideas. My work is invested to understanding our relations to technologies all encompassing vision to be networked and connected. I centre photography in my approach as Its where my knowledge is situated, but I rarely use photography as my output. I instead use the materials, or respond to the infrastructure or systems it is connected to.
Industree - Industree is an image in space of what photography literally is. Industree represents the landscape of photography and not a photography landscape.
This work reflects on the paradox found within the fantasies of digital recording tools such as the digital camera and its relation to cyclically erasing and renewing memory.
Materials: 8" silicon wafers (Si), steel, lemon juice, rust water, potassium, silicon carbide (SiC), foam.
Year: 2022
Exhibited alongside Quinda Verheul in The Wild Summer of Art II, at Brutus.
Quinda's work:
Title: Between the Sun and the Moon
Materials: Aluminium and concrete
Year: 2022
Industree - Industree is an image in space of what photography literally is. Industree represents the landscape of photography and not a photography landscape.
This work reflects on the paradox found within the fantasies of digital recording tools such as the digital camera and its relation to cyclically erasing and renewing memory.
Materials: 8" silicon wafers (Si), steel, lemon juice, rust water, potassium, silicon carbide (SiC), foam.
Year: 2022
Exhibited alongside Quinda Verheul in The Wild Summer of Art II, at Brutus.
Quinda's work:
Title: Between the Sun and the Moon
Materials: Aluminium and concrete
Year: 2022
Industree - Industree is an image in space of what photography literally is. Industree represents the landscape of photography and not a photography landscape.
This work reflects on the paradox found within the fantasies of digital recording tools such as the digital camera and its relation to cyclically erasing and renewing memory.
Materials: 8" silicon wafers (Si), steel, lemon juice, rust water, potassium, silicon carbide (SiC), foam.
Year: 2022
Exhibited alongside Quinda Verheul in The Wild Summer of Art II, at Brutus.
Quinda's work:
Title: Between the Sun and the Moon
Materials: Aluminium and concrete
Year: 2022
Creeper - 2021, steel, miracle gro fertiliser, copper with growing patina
Shrub - 2021, Steel, rest water, resistors
IndusTree - 2021
8" Silicon Wafers, steel, lemon pickle liquor
7 Allen Park Drive - Garage, Rotterdam, 2020
Exhibition - Through The Looking Glass
7 Allen Park Drive is a lock and key. The key is from my family and grandmother's family home, a home that doesn't exist for us anymore. The key was carried on my key chain ever since I was given a key to the house. I have carried the key for many years after changing it from key chain to key chain. Dwelling on the unsatisfactory of reaching the past through photography and my digital archives, I longed to touch the past somehow. I brought the key to a locksmith and asked to make a lock backwards from the key. This seemed a very odd request for the locksmith and he wasn't sure if it could be done. The lock was made in reverse from the key and after installing the lock in a plinth, I was able to turn my family home key once more. I could touch the past.
When Fools Rush In and Connect With The Stars - Growing Space, Weilewaal, Rotterdam, 2021
When fools rush in and connect with the stars
(May 2020) In lockdown: there are no planes in the sky, there haven’t been for weeks. I’m standing under the skies my ancestors looked up at. My gaze is fixed downwards, towards the pavement.
Strangely, I get the feeling I’m discovering a new sky. My head down, it is as though I am an inexperienced explorer who has been launched into the flickering cosmos, reaching farther than anyone before me.
In this frictionless journey through the abrasive abyss, I am 7 billion years into a directionless past (1). I am standing in a time before the sun from our solar system came to be. I am standing on star dust, manufactured for me to walk among the stars (2). The litter nearby are the only things between the beginning of time and infinity above me.
1. Murchison meteorite, Victoria Australia landing in 1969. In 2020 scientists revealed it to have pre solar grains of silicon carbide dating 7 billion year ago.
2. E.G Acheson, inventor of Silicon Carbide (SIC) 1891. Recorded in his essay; Carborundum: Its History, Manufacture and Uses (1893)
