Institution
TU Dublin
Medium
Installation
Graduation Year
Class of 2026
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I am a Meath/ Dublin based artist, working across multiple disciplines. These include painting, sculpture and sound installation. My current work involves welded frames made from box section, containing raw, stretched calico canvases onto which natural materials have been pressed. These expanded paintings contained within free-standing metal frames are interspersed between floor-based sculptural, industrial assemblages. A sound piece scores the installation, immersing the viewer further into this fabricated landscape.My practice explores the growing disconnect between humans and the natural world, specifically within western societies shaped through urban, technologically driven lifestyles. Emerging from the experience of travelling through less industrialised landscapes, the work reflects moments where intimacy and balance between people and environment still feel deeply present. Through immersive installations, I externalise personal experiences of my family-owned land in Ireland alongside wider global landscapes, creating environments that hold both distance and closeness, grief and measured hope. The metal frames hold the paintings like the body holds memory; This work puts forward a belief in renewal that is emotional as much as it is visual. Constructed through tactile, unpredictable processes using raw calico, mud, beetroot dye and foraged plant matter, knotted, soaked, pressed and stained, each surface records an exchange between body and matter, resisting control and embracing chance. Shifting toward fully natural materials to deepen their environmental and material integrity, each sculptural painting holds the same core value alone. When brought together, fragmentation and unity co-exist mirroring how we understand the environmental crisis only partially, never in full. The metal frames humanise industrial material through their feet and posture, while the paintings introduce bodily, organic elements into rigid structures. The disruption of what feels “sensible” reflects our current condition - a world where nature is framed, confined and controlled, yet still alive. Assemblages of found materials, taken from my grandfather’s field, grounds the installation in personal site and family memory. They are way stops for the viewer to wander through. The sound piece layers a slowed vocal frequency, oscillating between calm and overwhelming, reflecting both collective complicity and the possibility of reflection. Time Your Life to a Falling Leaf reflects the idea that we are all connected and that even the smallest actions carry weight over time.
