I am an Artist working primarily through new text, installation and performance. Facilitation, Action & LOVE are crucial to my practice.
I work regularly with communities of identity, purpose, and/or place. I make work to investigate contemporary living, acknowledging the visceral reality of past trauma while always focused towards healing. Rooted in my own lived experience, my work extends from the feminist declaration: the personal is the political. While studying Drama & Theatre Studies with Sociology at Trinity College Dublin, I began to fuse sociological tools within my arts practice; Reflexive Practice informs my methodologies. The intention to be authentic, allowing what’s there to be present in the space, owning my own stuff, and self identifying as female, white, Irish, queer, working-class, extending to more nuanced lived experiences when pertinent. This practice informs the process, enabling the potential for real relationships to develop within. My underlying assumption is that we are beings of infinite potential, each, every. I begin from a place of Equality, with the attempt to balance I Am free/I Am responsible continuously moving from the conceptual principle towards sustainable practices. I don’t always manage to hold that liminal ideological space, it’s an ongoing practice to try, starting with my own repairations, towards manifesting an equitable society. We are not there yet. That’s usually my initial motivation to create work, to artistically interrogate the sociopolitical landscape, trace root causes, wounds across time carved on the body politic.
Photograph by Louis Haugh
