'Drum Loch' is a body of work that brings together natural copper plate etching and chine collé printing processes along with sculptural and sound elements. My practice explores mapping as a way to trace memory, material, and place. I engage with the Irish landscape, particularly the Boyne Valley, as a layered site of personal and geological history. An old copper water tank from my childhood home became a catalyst. Its corroded surface resembled a map formed by time and water. The paradox of copper being both toxic and essential resonates personally through a family history of Wilson’s disease, a condition that causes copper levels to build up in the body, thus deepening my relationship with the material. I use copper plates to print through the chine collé process, building delicate, layered impressions that suggest sediment, erosion, and fragile systems of mapping. 'Drum Loch' reflects on how we inscribe, inherit, and transmit experience across land, through the body, and within material itself.
