Growing up on the fringes of Dublin, I was shaped by the experience of being displaced from the inner city and surrounded by a cycle of “spent” urban planning. This sense of displacement and boundary became a foundation for my work, particularly as I later pursued an apprenticeship in industrial screen printing. Witnessing the decline of the industry due to technological transformation instilled in me a critical understanding of labour, class, and the shifting dynamics of society.
These formative years working in industrial spaces, along with a series of precarious jobs, have deeply influenced my art practice. I explore the intersections of living, labour, and class structures, interrogating how these forces continue to shape both individual identity and collective belonging in a fractured world.
Through moving image, photography, digital manipulation, and sonic elements, I engage with a wide variety of materials and methods, from creating new work to reinterpreting existing forms. This approach allows me to challenge our perception of time, space, and the cyclical nature of social and economic systems. The work I create often draws connections between the past and present, especially in relation to the ways that borders, both physical and ideological, continuously shift, blur, and reshape our understanding of freedom and identity.
By reflecting on both the personal and theoretical, my practice seeks to question how borders, solidarity, and freedom are not fixed, but fluid and contested, reshaped by ongoing social and geopolitical exchanges.
These formative years working in industrial spaces, along with a series of precarious jobs, have deeply influenced my art practice. I explore the intersections of living, labour, and class structures, interrogating how these forces continue to shape both individual identity and collective belonging in a fractured world.
Through moving image, photography, digital manipulation, and sonic elements, I engage with a wide variety of materials and methods, from creating new work to reinterpreting existing forms. This approach allows me to challenge our perception of time, space, and the cyclical nature of social and economic systems. The work I create often draws connections between the past and present, especially in relation to the ways that borders, both physical and ideological, continuously shift, blur, and reshape our understanding of freedom and identity.
By reflecting on both the personal and theoretical, my practice seeks to question how borders, solidarity, and freedom are not fixed, but fluid and contested, reshaped by ongoing social and geopolitical exchanges.
