Material photo collages and textile works featuring hand embroidery, 2024/2025. Dimensions variable. Polyester crepe the Chine, organza, wool, found domestic materials and gifted items. Works were created during art residencies at Det Vilde Spinderi, Denmark and Konstepidemin, Sweden.

I composed habits for those acres

So that my last look would be

Neither gluttonous nor starved.

I was ready to go anywhere.

 

- Taken from Seamus Heaney’s poem “Land” 

 

In the life of an emigrant, there is a complex interplay between movement and stability, belonging and exile. In the last 17 years, having lived in five different countries, these sentiments have been echoed throughout my practice. In 'Transitional Geographies', I wanted to play with material as a way to navigate both physical and emotional terrains—the past and the present —the real and the imagined - as those which I believe map and inform the self. 

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Layered and collaged images, intercut or disturbed by thread, wool or text, reflect the notion of "negotiating" belonging and identity; suggesting an ongoing tension between the desire for stability and the pull of migration. The primary content for the project was gathered in Tallaght, Dublin and includes photographs taken on daily walks around my neighbourhood. Photos from other locations I have visited or spent time in recently are also included to highlight the cross-border and continual transitory nature of migration and movement.

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