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cloch: 42 words for stone

2024–, In progress.

cloch: 42 words for stone [working title] is a body of video work, photography, and mixed media prints, taking disappearing (Gaelic) words as an entry point into personal and collective (postcolonial) imaginaries. An exploration of alternative forms of knowledge, and the possibility of decolonizing the tongue and mind.

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My artistic practice has encompassed sculpture, installation, photography, video, collage, and artist’s books. Following an extended hiatus, my recent projects include an experimental play entitled The Entangled Museum, lecture performances, collage, and mixed media prints, in tandem with a cross-genre book entitled The Shape of Silence. I am currently working on cloch: 42 words for stone, a body of mixed media and video work engaging with language and landscape as intertwined post/colonial topographies. This work relates to my hybrid book in progress, Between Language [working title].

I have exhibited and performed my work in solo and group exhibitions in Ireland, the UK, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and the US at venues including Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin; Aachener Kunstverein, Germany; Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork, The Globe Gallery, Newcastle, UK; Mehrwert e.v., Aachen; Wexford Arts Center, Wexford; Basement Gallery, Dundalk, Ireland; Art Hive, Cork, Bilderhaus Bornemann Galerie, Germany; Outpost Venice, Italy; Lavitt’s Quay Gallery, Cork; 1430 Contemporary, Portland, and the Center for Contemporary Art and Culture, Portland. My artist’s books are held in the New York Public Library art collection.

Selected Recent Work

  • cloch: 42 words for stone

    2024–, In progress.
    2024
  • Molten Voices

    2022–2023
    2022
  • Braiding

    Oregon Center for Contemporary Art, Portland

    November 2021
    2021
  • The Unknown Future

    Center for Contemporary Art and Culture, Portland

    12 March 2020
    2020
  • After Difference

    Center for Contemporary Art and Culture, Portland

    9 April 2020
    2020
  • The Entangled Museum

    1430 Contemporary, Portland

    2019– Ongoing.
    2019

Artmaking is an exercise in precision and ambiguity. Each closer examination reveals another hidden gesture, a repetition foregrounding difference, a play between withholding and expressing. Sometimes I think that everything I have ever made is a collage. An attempt to open up cracks between surfaces, an oscillation between materiality and metaphor. An incessant dialogue that never stops preceding and extending itself beyond itself