Fungais, Daoine agus Siombóisigh Eile
Fungi, Humans and other Symbionts
Suiteán ildaite de sholas síoraithreach, ag spraoi le sraitheanna den idirnascadh agus den idirspleáchas. Meascadh beo de dhúigh nádúrtha agus íomhánna eolaíochta á dteilgean ar idir choirp agus phíosaí líníochta.
Sa tigh gloine an Díseart, mar chuid de Cogar ag Other Voices.
Le ealaíontóir Silke Michels agus mo mhac Ruaidhrí.
A colourful installation of dynamic light, playing with layers of connection and interdependence. A live mixing of natural inks and scientific images is projected onto bodies and drawings.
In the Díseart glasshouse, as part of Cogar, Other Voices.
With artist Silke Michels and my son Ruaidhrí.
Sa tigh gloine an Díseart, mar chuid de Cogar ag Other Voices.
Le ealaíontóir Silke Michels agus mo mhac Ruaidhrí.
A colourful installation of dynamic light, playing with layers of connection and interdependence. A live mixing of natural inks and scientific images is projected onto bodies and drawings.
In the Díseart glasshouse, as part of Cogar, Other Voices.
With artist Silke Michels and my son Ruaidhrí.
Oikos
Radical resting in our human-sized nests at IMMA's Earth Rising festival, by OIKOS artist collective.
We were inspired by the nesting habits of different birds, including the bower bird and the weaver bird. Birdsong on headphones helped people relax and let go.
Carrying the natural materials and building tasks were performative and ritualistic.
Thinking about migration, being welcoming, making home for ourselves and others, taking time to rest and slow down, in rhythm with nature.
We were inspired by the nesting habits of different birds, including the bower bird and the weaver bird. Birdsong on headphones helped people relax and let go.
Carrying the natural materials and building tasks were performative and ritualistic.
Thinking about migration, being welcoming, making home for ourselves and others, taking time to rest and slow down, in rhythm with nature.
Pride In Our Peatlands
Bród as ár bPortach
A creative community project about Kilcummin bog. Artist Emer Fallon and I ran a series of walks, talks and creative sessions with the local community and primary schools, to explore the past, present and imagined future of this very special place.
Funded by Kerry County Council environment department with a Creative Ireland grant.
Funded by Kerry County Council environment department with a Creative Ireland grant.
Ceann Scríbe
A solo exhibition resulting from a year-long walking project; mapping, collecting, writing, and making colour from the landscape. Plant inks, earth pigments, rust and copper were made over time and used to create works on paper and fabric. The exhibition also featured an art book, hanging and sculptures made from handmade paper (from our household’s scrap paper) and natural materials. A large plant inks action painting, experimental cyanotypes, a nest sculpture and an Earth pigment map of the walks were also featured
Idir na Línte - Between the Lines
Between the Lines site-specific, interactive installation at the Dingle Bookshop wearing book dresses and inviting responses written in locally foraged handmade oak gall ink to the question 'What makes a Book?' Collaboration with artist Silke Michels.
Commissioned by the Dingle Literary festival 2022.
Commissioned by the Dingle Literary festival 2022.
Samhlaíocht Sessions
Dance solo responding to the specially composed music of Gerry O Beirne, commissioned by Nasc productions, performed in An Díseart, Dingle.
Photographs by Fiona Morgan.
Photographs by Fiona Morgan.
Inbhear - Estuary
Site-responsive performance at Milltown river, with poetry, music, dance and visual art, commissioned by Féile na Bealtaine arts festival 2022.
Photographs by Manuela Dei Grandi
Photographs by Manuela Dei Grandi
Cnoc a' Chairn: Remembered and Re-imagined
As part of Féile na Bealtaine arts festival 2021, audience members joined us to walk on this mountain that overlooks Dingle, and at the famine graveyard nestled there, for poetry, ritual, and reflections on the past uses of this land, and the possibilities of re-wilding such a place.
I made this piece in collaboration with poet Simon Ó Faoláin, musician Eoin Duignan, singer Iarfhlaith Ó Murchú and environmentalist Darach Ó Murchú. My drawings accompanied us throughout the walk, based on Celtic rock art, depicting the native animals mentioned in the poems and spoken word, some of them extinct or endangered.
I made this piece in collaboration with poet Simon Ó Faoláin, musician Eoin Duignan, singer Iarfhlaith Ó Murchú and environmentalist Darach Ó Murchú. My drawings accompanied us throughout the walk, based on Celtic rock art, depicting the native animals mentioned in the poems and spoken word, some of them extinct or endangered.
Giorria
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I'm a member of the Irish language contemporary theatre ensemble Giorria whose members include writers, directors, dancers, actors and poets based across the country.
Most recently we made Faoi Scáth...Le Chéile performed outdoors in the Díseart gardens, Dingle. My part in this piece came from my research into native Irish trees and the Ogham alphabet and became about human and nature dis/connection. I made a special costume, and devised movement and words.
Míle buíochas le Ealaín na Gaeltachta agus An Chomhairle Ealaíne don tacíocht.
I'm a member of the Irish language contemporary theatre ensemble Giorria whose members include writers, directors, dancers, actors and poets based across the country.
Most recently we made Faoi Scáth...Le Chéile performed outdoors in the Díseart gardens, Dingle. My part in this piece came from my research into native Irish trees and the Ogham alphabet and became about human and nature dis/connection. I made a special costume, and devised movement and words.
Míle buíochas le Ealaín na Gaeltachta agus An Chomhairle Ealaíne don tacíocht.
A Question of Degree: Climate Change in Coastal Communities
I spent a wonderful summer in 2019 as artist-in-residence at Siamsa Tíre, Tralee. I worked with people living on the coast in our county and created a soundtrack of their words which was accompanied by projected photographs from the places I explored. I also mapped the residency as a drawing on the gallery walls for Culture Night where visitors were invited to add their drawings of what they treasure about their coastline. I also invited people to draw a postcard size picture of 'Our Changing Home', reflecting on how we can live more sustainably and as part of nature. These were added to the exhibit that grew throughout the residency. I also facilitated various workshops and drew plants and animals that I saw on my visits.
Between the Lines: Project 8
A 'micro-residency' at the Dingle Book Shop in collaboration with artist Silke Michels. We spent a day at the shop, recording people's voices, writing poems using book titles (and inviting others to do so), folding origami, taking photographs, asking questions and using the shelves for an installation. We then performed in paper dresses with our photos projected onto us as we played a soundtrack made from the collected voices, with an audience joining us during Féile na Bealtaine arts festival.
A Walk In My Shoes
An exciting and ambitious collaboration I enjoyed with filmmaker and photographer Mickey Kelly and Camphill Community Dingle where people of all abilities reach their potential by focusing on and developing their skills.
Funded by the Arts Council’s ‘Artist in the Community Scheme’, managed by Create, the project explores the themes of friendship, trust and (in)visibility through performance, contact improvisation and the poetry of movement.
The group devised and performed three live pieces of work during the eight month project and filmed at four locations – An Díseart, Dingle Marina, Dún Síon beach and The Blasket Centre – to create a short dance film, with its premier at the Phoenix Cinema Dingle as part of Féile na Bealtaine Arts Festival. They also presented an exhibition of portrait photographs – one of each participant taken during the project.
These beautiful photographs above were taken by the wonderful Mickey Kelly (with the exception of Eoin in the green T-shirt, and the angel wings - those were taken by the also wonderful Neal Moran, an employee of Dingle Camphill!).
To view a full case study of the project (and other fantastic work funded by AIC awards) please follow this link to Create's website.
In The Post
I work in collaboration with three women artists. We live in different countries so we have made a special way of working by post. It started with a paper fan - one each - and every month the fans were passed on. We shared our thoughts and ideas by writing and drawing on the fans. Stories are elaborated on, the layers build up.
We were inspired by the Chinese women in Hunan Province who had their own secret language which they used to communicate with each other at a time when they could not voice their opinions openly.
The project now revolves around the posting of a tin box which contains words, images, sounds, little films and is used by each of us in turn to inspire our work as it develops further. We stick to a set of rules and each time must add something to the box that relates to each of the five senses.
The work resulted in an interactive installation in Dingle during Féile na Bealtaine arts festival in 2015. Hundreds of visitors to the exhibition added their own words and images to our paper, wire and bone figure, or gave themselves a temporary tattoo, and many spent several hours exploring the different parts of the installation which was also based around senses.ly
We were inspired by the Chinese women in Hunan Province who had their own secret language which they used to communicate with each other at a time when they could not voice their opinions openly.
The project now revolves around the posting of a tin box which contains words, images, sounds, little films and is used by each of us in turn to inspire our work as it develops further. We stick to a set of rules and each time must add something to the box that relates to each of the five senses.
The work resulted in an interactive installation in Dingle during Féile na Bealtaine arts festival in 2015. Hundreds of visitors to the exhibition added their own words and images to our paper, wire and bone figure, or gave themselves a temporary tattoo, and many spent several hours exploring the different parts of the installation which was also based around senses.ly
Please Draw Your Home
A community project inviting visual reflections on the idea of 'home'.