Statement

I am a practising artist specializing in analogue photography and mixed media. My practice is a mixture of nostalgia and memories of reflection into my family ancestry. My medium is analogue photography and family belongings intertwined and bound together. My latest collection Nurtured in Concrete form began in 2007 when I started photographing my paternal Grandfather’s home who had passed away in 2005. I was curious to learn more about my Grandfather of whom I knew very little of at the time. By photographing his home the project and collection gathered momentum. And became a catharsis for historical regression into my family’s past uncovering secrets, religion, illness and emigration. Relating to my family’s ancestral roots in Sothern Ireland and the impact of the potato famine of 1845. Nurtured in Concrete Form is a therapeutic collection of past life regression taking photographic form. The element of nostalgia and reflection have played an influential role to my artist practice which, has coincided with my gravitas and interest in the arts as a form of therapy for aiding health and wellbeing.

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