My practice is informed by doctoral research in art history and theory, as well as creative interests identified during a HND fine art. Working across mediums and the visual languages of abstraction and figuration, it is concerned with natural dynamics, the structures that underlie reality as we experience it, and relationships within and between things.

 

Featuring, metaphorically, the interlacing threads of woven textiles as recurring motifs, it probes the polarities encountered in art and life and how these relate to ideas about unity. Recent work inspired by textiles and my coastal location visualises the seafront as an 'overlap zone'. Primarily through ink pen, charcoal and pastel drawings, it explores this location as a weave between waves and foreshore, with interacting warp- and weft-like elements. My recent solo exhibition, 'Drawing as Tapestry', at the Signal Arts Centre, Bray, featured 43 works that mainly drew on this strand of enquiry. For more, see here, and for a retrospective view, see here.

 

Following a residency in Athens, I am also undertaking an art + research enquiry, one phase of which was funded by an Arts Council Agility Award. Probing contrasting elements of style in ancient Greek sculpture, it draws on ideas about iterative patterns from chaos theory to consider how refreshed categories of form may recur over the course of art history. The next phase of this project will culminate in an exhibition at University College Dublin's on-campus Classical Museum in 2027.

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Artist CV

CV

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