Contents May Shift During Transit
Solo exhibition – Working Artist Studios, Ballydehob, Co.Cork May 2026 Contents May Settle in Transit marks a significant shift within my practice. While my work has previously centred on materially driven sculptural processes, this body of work moves into painting as a primary medium while continuing my ongoing research into intergenerational memory, female experience, and the […]
Port – Crete
This work emerged from a three-month funded artist residency in Chania, Crete in 2025. The setting itself was extraordinary — the generosity of many of the Greek people, the light, the sea, the rhythm of the city. Like most residencies, however, the lived reality was more complex than the postcard version. But back to the […]
Paintings
I am currently exploring painting as a material. I consider myself a visual artist that used many different materials to convey an idea. After attending a painting symposium held by MTU, discussing the ‘death and resurrection’ of painting I am interested in why we are so intent on defining or categorising our work. After listening […]
COVID STORIES
Photograph by artist
SEARCHING IDENTITY
This work remains unfinished (or should I say put on hold) as it began just as COVID 19 put a stop to any large scale exploration
SHELVING RESPONSIBILITY
This work began with interviewing Irish women in their 40’s and 50’s. My interest lay in what they thought about their roles and responsibilities. I wanted to reference the concept of cocooning, evolving and the views about the changing roles and responsibilities expressed by those interviewed. Eventually this led me to the Irish myth of […]
PAPER SCULPTURE
I have experimented with making paper from many varied materials. Taking this paper and making sculptures with inclusions of other raw, organic materials is the objective. Seaweed is a favourite when working with hand-made paper. I collect seaweed from the shore at different times of the year. I then treat it and store it for […]
RIPPLES
2019, Porcelain and fabric, 15 x 9 x 5 cm (2 pieces) This was in response to being invited to participate in an international exhibition. The brief stipulation was ‘book’. I decided that I wanted to create a sculptural object that told a story but left the story untold. The motivation for the piece was […]
MOTHER MAY I
An experiential piece spread over 2 studio spaces. 10 metres x 5 metres, with a dividing wall. The area is covered with a fabric reminiscent of the type of tights worn by nuns in the 1970’s/80’s. The floor of the space is safe to walk on but undulates underfoot. The fabric, which also covers the […]
MEMORY BAGS
Textiles, handmade paper with flower inclusions, stitching and fragments of original poem, 24 bags 20 x 10 x2 cm, suspended