I am a fine Art student from Galway working through installation assemblages. My practice brings together sculpture, video, welding, and handmade processes that form temporary relationships that draw on the connection between human’s beings and the environments they co-inhabit. The artworks investigate how materials and objects carry meaning historically and materially, exploring these meanings through the language of sculpture. The works enable contexts and conditions where the body and materials meet, actions and gestures then form an internal logic of understanding that can enable a reconsideration of our relationship with the world.
My installations are composed of a collection of materials and incomplete objects that allow multiple configurations and concepts to emerge. Fragments and inactive gestures archival images, archaeological artefacts, forgotten uses, drawings, nettles, writing, and video, the works form open-ended arrangements that resist fixed interpretation and instead invite speculation or a piecing together.
Melt into me, and flow elsewhere
The installation explores the relationships between human beings and the environments they co‑inhabit, bringing together a collection of materials and objects that are transformed, processed, organic, and archival. The materials are arranged and orchestrated with ambiguity in mind; the compositions gesture toward a more symbiotic world, one where materials and human relations are co-constitutional.
The work behaves as an attention trap, leading the viewer into a conversation with the materials, where they must begin to acknowledge their own body in relation to them. This cultivates a form of care and sensitivity towards the body’s external relations. The work questions how we apply hospitality to the nonhuman, to things that are obscured, that resist, that ask too much.
The nettle becomes a device for this shift. It asks the viewer to approach with caution, and patience, opening a space that de-centers the human’s perspective. The installation invites the viewer to reconsider how we relate to the world, moving towards a position of openness and adaptability like the raw materials that are themselves always in the process of becoming.
