2014
Sapporo International Arts Festival
Video commission and site-specific photographic response made for the Sorachi Coal Mine Exhibition as part of the Sapporo International Arts Festival, 2014. This project was the result of being awarded the Grand Prix from the Sapporo Biennale international art competition in 2011.
The exhibition was held in a decommissioned electrical power plant in a former coal mining town of Yubari, Hokkaido.
The film and photographs reflected on permanent and temporary disfigurations of the landscape.
The film was shot in former mining sites throughout county Wicklow, with a human figure traversing streams still polluted with run-off from mines closed over 100 years earlier.
The photographs were shot in Yubari, focusing on out-of-use energy infrastructure in the local area, alongside artificial colours, waste and plastic interrupting the landscape.
Left: Video installed in the basement of the electrical power plant. Below: video installed at Fake Hikers, group exhibition at MMCA Changdong, South Korea.
2012
Dusting
Made on residency in Prague as part of the Started residency, a result of an honorary mention from the Startpoint Prize for Emerging Artists.
Dusting is a 4 minute video and 35mm slide projection installation, where a monotonous domestic task – dusting- becomes the basis of a grotesque display of desire as years of dust and dirt are licked off the windows of an abandoned public building.
Above: We at Catalyst Arts.
Left and below: Started 2012: Residents of Startpoint, Galerie NTK, National Technical Library, Prague.
Dusting at solo exhibition at the Crawford, 09.2020-01.2021.
2011
An Oral Fixation
Exhibited at the Royal College of Art graduate exhibition in 2011, An Oral Fixation won the Little White Lies Award from the London Short Film Festival for best low budget short.
2011
The Unnameable
Exhibited at the Royal College of Art graduate exhibition in 2011, this film and photographic series was made in collaboration with Sally-Anne Kelly. It was exhibited at a solo exhibition in Rua Red, alongside a self-published photobook which tells the story of a boy who grows up feeding an invisible ‘elephant’. As he begins to imagine life without the elephant, we follow him through his imagination, in out of his consciousness.
Startpoint Prize for Emerging Artists, Wannieck Gallery, Brno, Czech Republic.
2013/2014
The Moonless Ocean
The Moonless Ocean was shown at solo exhibitions at Contemporary Art Institute CAI02 in Sapporo and Galway Arts Centre. Made in collaboration with Sally-Anne Kelly, the film and photography project explored the presentation and manipulation of self-image.
Galway Arts Centre.
CAI02 Contemporary Art Institute, Sapporo, Japan.
