Institution
Limerick School of Art and Design (LSAD)
Medium
Print
Graduation Year
Class of 2026
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I am an emerging artist based in the Midlands of Ireland and a recent graduate of Limerick School of Art and Design, where I graduated with First Class Honours in Print Contemporary Practice. My practice is rooted in an exploration of site-specific places and the emotional, cultural, and historical connections we form with them. Through an interdisciplinary approach that combines printmaking with lens-based media, I investigate how landscapes function as repositories of memory, carrying traces of personal histories, family narratives, and traditions. Central to my work is an interest in material culture and the ways in which everyday objects, domestic artefacts, rural environments, and traditional practices embody lived experience. Through processes of documentation, drawing, and print, I seek to reveal the subtle marks left by time, labour, and human presence, considering how absence can be represented as powerfully as presence. My practice often begins with research and direct engagement with a particular site, combining photography, archival footage, personal reflection, and observational drawing to build a visual language that reflects both the physical landscape and its emotional resonance. Printmaking provides a tactile and process-driven methodology that mirrors the act of remembering, where images emerge gradually through layering and reconstruction. Lens-based media complements this process by documenting fleeting moments and overlooked details, allowing the work to exist between documentation and interpretation. My most recent body of work, Traces of Him Left Behind, responds to the rural landscape of Skeirke in County Laois. Developed as a visual memoir, the project reflects on familial relationships, grief and enduring the absence of my Grandad who have shaped the garden. Through photographs, prints, and material interventions, the work considers how landscapes become vessels for memory and how traces of a life remain embedded within the everyday environment. The work invites viewers to reflect on their own experiences of loss, belonging, and connection to place. As my practice continues to develop, I aim to further explore the intersections of memory, landscape, and materiality through collaborative research, site-responsive projects, and expanded print practices. I am interested in creating work that encourages slow looking and reflection, offering spaces where personal histories intersect with broader cultural narratives and where the familiar can be reconsidered through material and image.
