I am a Dublin based visual artist working across various mediums, such as photography, drawing and printmaking in analogue and digital formats. I gravitate primarily towards photography as the foundation of my practice, which I often combine or transform into other mediums.
I photograph my surroundings regularly, documenting our ever changing environment. I'm concerned with establishing a visual preservation of places and people, especially in Dublin City, my adopted home of over 30 years. I strive to investigate and reflect on the possibilities and importance of communities through my interpretation of places. I'm motivated to bring a spotlight on and call attention to these empty, unused buildings with a previous history now sadly left to decline through lack of attention. By documenting them through photography and drawing, I am holding onto or creating new memories of the space.
My work often delves into the past. I use my photographs and work with found source material, which I have gathered over many years. Items such as photographs, slides, letters, postcards and visual books. Some are of a personal nature, images of friends and family comfortable with their surroundings. Others have an educational or promotional context. All are generally over 40 years old. I utilise imagery from this source material to tease new ideas, recontextualising them through drawing, printmaking and collage. Through these various processes, I bring these items back from obscurity and create new narratives and reimagined stories where real and fictional coexist.
I also co-own a design studio, called Pixelated with my husband Micky Kelleher and work part-time for Mazars in Ireland as a graphic designer and in all areas of digital media.
