IRELAND: COLOUR SAMPLES, 2014
Postcards, image with colour palette.

This series catalogues the very particular quality of light and colour experienced in the Irish landscape.

One of the series was chosen by PhotoIreland to be printed as part of their ‘Greetings from Ireland’ postcard project which has been exhibited in and is currently for sale in Library Project Dublin, Photobook Melbourne and the Photo Triennial of Hamburg. Review of PhotoIreland exhibition from The Irish Times 6th December 2014 here.

Now selection of 16 images being sold under the Turfprojects.ie label.

IRELAND: COLOUR SAMPLES, 2014
Postcards, image with colour palette.

This series catalogues the very particular quality of light and colour experienced in the Irish landscape.

One of the series was chosen by PhotoIreland to be printed as part of their ‘Greetings from Ireland’ postcard project which has been exhibited in and is currently for sale in Library Project Dublin, Photobook Melbourne and the Photo Triennial of Hamburg. Review of PhotoIreland exhibition from The Irish Times 6th December 2014 here.

Now selection of 16 images being sold under the Turfprojects.ie label.

IRELAND: COLOUR SAMPLES, 2014
Postcards, image with colour palette.

This series catalogues the very particular quality of light and colour experienced in the Irish landscape.

One of the series was chosen by PhotoIreland to be printed as part of their ‘Greetings from Ireland’ postcard project which has been exhibited in and is currently for sale in Library Project Dublin, Photobook Melbourne and the Photo Triennial of Hamburg. Review of PhotoIreland exhibition from The Irish Times 6th December 2014 here.

Now selection of 16 images being sold under the Turfprojects.ie label.

Collaboration with Casadh drugs rehabilitation centre, Dublin 8, and visual artist Samantha Clarke.

The group chose to develop a project which centred on recreating pieces from a collection of paintings at the National Gallery. The narrative use of painting and photography was discussed by the group, and baring this in mind, each participant chose one painting that they could relate a story in their own lives to, and a modern re-enactment of each painting was made through photography. Each of the resulting images contained a personal meaning for the participants. This project resulted in the group exhibiting a collection of their work, initially at St. Catherines Community Centre, Marrowbone Lane, and then later in the education space of the National Gallery of Ireland.

In 2007 the completion date for the U2 Tower was due to be in late 2011. In 2008 the project was suspended due to the economic situation.

A paper pop-up version was designed to feature in the debut publication of Dublin based collaborative art magazine project Not Drowning but Waving, as a reminder of this ‘unbuilt’. Now existing only on paper, this cut-out serves as a kind of ‘anti-monument’.

These details are taken from a series combining life-sized drawings of wasps with simple architectural scale plans.

Awarded prize in ‘Utopias’ at Éigse Arts Festival Carlow 2006.

This piece looks at the reduction of the world to idealised sign systems and the restrictive effect of such visual definitions which are constantly referenced in daily perception.

SUSPENDING DISBELIEF 2009
2 Videos, Projected Image and Suspended 3D Glasses.

The 3D glasses, which seem to levitate in front of the audience as they enter the installation space indicate the premise on which the work was made; as a reflection on systems of human knowledge and ways of seeing, which are inescapably linked to our physicality and embodied experience. These videos made in the format of homemade youtube ‘how to’ videos explain how to do simple levitation tricks.

‘Willed suspension of disbelief’ is an idea that is used here to explain how a modern, enlightened audience might continue to enjoy certain types of entertainment. It indicates an onus on the audience to participate in the creation and experience of illusionary or fictional events.

THINKING GLOBALLY: GLACIER 2014
Triptych, 20cm x 20cm, Lambda Prints.

SUSPENDING DISBELIEF 2009
2 Videos, Projected Image and Suspended 3D Glasses.

The 3D glasses, which seem to levitate in front of the audience as they enter the installation space indicate the premise on which the work was made; as a reflection on systems of human knowledge and ways of seeing, which are inescapably linked to our physicality and embodied experience. These videos made in the format of homemade youtube ‘how to’ videos explain how to do simple levitation tricks.

‘Willed suspension of disbelief’ is an idea that is used here to explain how a modern, enlightened audience might continue to enjoy certain types of entertainment. It indicates an onus on the audience to participate in the creation and experience of illusionary or fictional events.

HERE AND THERE 2006
12 Screen Synchronised Video Loop Installation

The location and influence of ‘shared space’ was considered in the production of this piece. Clips from the popular Australian soap ‘Home and Away’ were shown directly opposite footage shot in Ireland mirroring the composition and editing of the original clips. The same blue-screen footage of a figure was inserted into the corresponding video loops. The choreography of the actor was limited and determined by the space in the original footage.

Collaboration with Aspiro (formerly Carlow Young Artists Choir) under the directorship of Mary Almond O’Brien.
Creation of ‘light orchestra’ to accompany choral and orchestral performance of Fauré’a Requiem on the 30th of April 2006 in the Cathedral of the Assumption, Carlow. Funded by The Arts Council.

Each choir member produced at least one piece of photography, animation or video work. The videos and animations were displayed on large screens either side of the choir, while the photographs were displayed on light boxes that were placed throughout the crowd. The choir members had ‘scored’ the artworks, so that they would be illuminated in synchronization with the appropriate part of the music by which they were inspired.

Press coverage in the ‘Carlow People‘… “Performance…the first of its kind in Ireland.”

Image taken from series of site specific interventions and performances.

MAKE YOUR MARK 2007
Performance, photography, sound installation.
Collaboration with graffiti artist Tom McDonald and East Wall Youth.
Funded by Temple Bar Gallery & Studios

The aim of the project was to raise participants awareness of contemporary arts practice through engagement with the techniques of photography and graffiti writing. The work produced centered on the idea of transcience and mark making, which participants explored through stop motion animation, storyboarding, light graffiti, sound recording and photography.

An exhibition of the work was held in St. Marys Youth Club in East Wall in December 2007.

IRELAND: COLOUR SAMPLES, 2014
Postcards, image with colour palette.

This series catalogues the very particular quality of light and colour experienced in the Irish landscape.

One of the series was chosen by PhotoIreland to be printed as part of their ‘Greetings from Ireland’ postcard project which has been exhibited in and is currently for sale in Library Project Dublin, Photobook Melbourne and the Photo Triennial of Hamburg. Review of PhotoIreland exhibition from The Irish Times 6th December 2014 here.

Now selection of 16 images being sold under the Turfprojects.ie label.

While the Greek word ‘kronos’ refers to chronological or sequential time, the word ‘kairos’ signifies a momentary break in the determined narrative of chronological time, a fleeting moment of opportunity. Thus kairos represents a significant and decisive moment of empowerment. Chance and determinism are prerequisite in this discourse of internal and external power.

*(Rancière, J, ‘Ten Theses on Politics’, Theory & Event, 5:3, 2001)