Luminosity in loss.
Afterimage. Invisible threads.
Light and shadow. Language.
Themes of restoration are the foundation of my practice. Using re-purposed garments; gauze, thread and beeswax, or paper, paint, ink, canvas, and charcoal, I seek to mend.
Bees, beekeepers, and the drone sounds of hives are recurrent themes.
I study Irish - a hereditary language - searching for words which articulate our deep connections to the earth, each other, all of life, death, and the ever-present unseen world.
I look to language and cultural restoration as methods for collective rethinking.
Ultimately my work is about liberation - disentangling from the limitations put upon us through the overlay of colonial systems and therein seeing ourselves.