Am I Dreaming? My practise revolves around my interest in how we as humans interact with and understand our world around us. These pieces explore the similarity between how we understand both the construction of dreams and reality and how we separate the two. We use...
The Black Pubes What is the true measurement for erotic art in contemporary: a hypothesis erotic the sense exist not within a shape but a form, not within the imagery of our human nude, but within the details of the nude. The coniform, the wrinkles, the vaginal...
Shifting Positions “In every outthrust headland, in every curving beach, in every grain of sand there is the story of the earth”. - Rachel Carson (1907-1964), Marine Biologist As a sculptor, with a natural affinity for modelling and shaping resistant materials, I am...
Synthesis Originally from the North West Atlantic coast; the rural “forgotten” county of Donegal, Ciara’s work notes on our interaction with the land and the sea, where two worlds meet. She uses the narrative of the relic though the materiality of clay to generate a...
My practise is predominantly concerned with examining the relationship we have with our physical self in a way that is not completely comfortable, but equally not destructive. As intellectual beings it is easy to lose touch with the physical experience of our body....
Memoirs of Transformation “Life doesn’t last; art doesn’t last. It doesn’t matter.” - Hesse, E. (1970) We all experience the inevitability of life, and death within life. It is a vicious circle that no one can escape, leaving behind a vacuum after we lose people close...
Garments for a party [to which she was not invited] My practice involves the making by-hand of garments that explore the interwoven nature of physical and psychological comfort and discomfort. I am interested in clothing as a means of silent communication;...
"To think is thus to test out." - Maurice Merleau Ponty Our expectation is not always one that is correct and when questioned it provokes new ways of thinking and consideration of the world around us. Each play a role in how we experience the everyday object through a...
Temporary Decomposition (100 balloons) My current work is concerned with juxtaposition between industry (durable) and the domestic (organic), which addresses my interest in the abject body as a vessel. I explore the liminal spaces of the human experience, negotiating...
The Aftermath Our world has become very complicated. Violence is everywhere and our society has become too familiar to these scenes that people have become indifferent towards them. I find ignoring the pain of others the most disturbing part… We simply do not care!...
Like a Woman To live is to move; how we move embodies our past and creates our future. The consideration of these ideas, through the use of performance, photography, drawing and video-documentation, is a continuing strand in my practice. We have enormous capacity to...
My research over the last year has been about exploring through Social Art Practice and using creative play to investigate peoples’ relationship with the outside (real/physical) world and the inside (virtual/technological) world. I have been concerned about Western...