2019 EMIT
My second solo exhibition at the Droichead Arts Centre, Drogheda, Co Louth.
In September 2015, almost a year after my son was born, three year old Alan Kurdi was washed up on a beach in Turkey with his family in an effort to cross the Mediterranean Sea for what they imagined would be a better life.
At the same time, deforestation in the Amazon was continuing at an alarming rate and I continued to live near the Boyne Valley and Clogherhead beach in relative safety and comfort.
The work from this pre-Covid time explored themes of protection, migration, climate, nature and motherhood in a precarious, unequal and contradictory time.
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Reflections on a Future Past . 10 minute looped video projection in the background. The Very Heart of the Matter in the foreground. Installation view. Dimensions variable
The Heart of the Matter, fine-line drawing on cartridge paper, moulded plexiglass, and looped projection in false wall. Installation view. Dimensions variable
The Heart of the Matter, middle panel detail with looped projection.
The Heart of the Matter, fine-line drawing on cartridge paper, moulded plexiglass, and looped projection in false wall. Installation view. Dimensions variable
2019 EMIT - A Hole in the Water, fine-liner pen on sketchbook paper, photo collage and gold acrylic, 297mm x 210mm unframed
2019 EMIT - Crystal Emits, fine-liner pen on sketchbook paper, photo collage and gold acrylic, 297mm x 210mm unframed
2019 EMIT - Gretatomic, fine-liner pen on sketchbook paper, photo collage and gold acrylic, 297mm x 210mm unframed
2019 EMIT - Crowning Outside, fine-liner pen on sketchbook paper, photo collage and gold acrylic, 297mm x 210mm unframed
2019 EMIT - Seismic Shift, fine-liner pen on sketchbook paper, photo collage and gold acrylic, 297mm x 210mm unframed
2019 EMIT - Crowning Inside, fine-liner pen on sketchbook paper, photo collage and gold acrylic, 297mm x 210mm unframed
2019 EMIT - Reflections on a Future Past, fine-liner pen on sketchbook paper, photo collage and gold acrylic, 297mm x 210mm unframed
2019 EMIT - Freedom, fine-liner pen on sketchbook paper, photo collage and gold acrylic, 297mm x 210mm unframed
2019 EMIT - Concrete Rocks, fine-liner pen on sketchbook paper, photo collage and gold acrylic, 297mm x 210mm unframed
EMIT - Work on paper, Installation view
Migration- mixed media sculpture, stones and driftwood, bird nest, peacock feather, child’s orange croc with gold acrylic, glass dome, artist easel, clamp spotlight, sailor lamp with drawing
Migration, mixed media sculpture, stones and driftwood, bird nest, peacock feather, child’s orange croc with gold acrylic, glass dome, artist easel, clamp spotlight, sailor lamp with drawing, dimensions variable