I am a multi-media visual artist working primarily in painting and sculpture. My current practice 'How the surface wavers' investigates the layered histories of place, focusing on the transformation of the Limerick Good Shepherd Magdalene Laundry into the Limerick School of Art and Design. Through site-specific work, I explore how the past persists within the present, using fragmented symbolism to illustrate the paradox of two realities coexisting in a single space.By viewing the building as a hauntological element, interplaying between realities, objects, and temporality, absence becomes a form of memory. My materials, chosen for their malleability, reflect the fragility of history and lived experience. Techniques such as building up, breaking down, staining, and layering allow me to submerge my work in the materiality of change, evoking themes of loss, transformation, and the passage of time.
