I am an Irish artist based in London. My practice primarily focuses on painting, drawing and collage but I have previously worked in sculpture, textiles, performance and film.
My work investigates human experience, memory and background and how this intrinsically shapes our identity and relationship with the world around us. I am interested in the ‘woven-ness’ of things; an ‘unseparation’ between people and everything else. Growing up in Belfast, the particular religious and political events of my environment and sectarian tensions, have influenced my relationship with myself and my Irish identity. At times, this means that my work sometimes, inevitably touches on political themes.
My paintings inhabit the liminal space between figuration and abstraction; fragmenting and distorting, whilst they simultaneously tessellate and interlace like Celtic knots, creating a sense of interconnectedness.
My approach to my work is intuitive. Borrowing figures from art history, personal photographs and archival images, as well as, life drawing classes, I am drawn to body language that conveys or recollects a personal experience, emotion or, occasionally a dream; allowing the meaning of each work to emerge organically from there. I make paintings using oils, acrylic, charcoal and pencil amongst other materials.
I have studied at Leeds College of Art and The Essential School of Painting in London.