See Hear, is a sound work made from the voices of people who live in Ennistymon. It acknowledges community, diversity, openness, and support through a simple mechanism for participation, collective activity, and testimony to a sense of belonging. With the help of artist Jarlath Slattery, McLoughlin spent time in the summer of 2023 recording the names of people from the town. The work takes the form of a 'broadcast' from two speakers outside the gallery that call out the names of everyone who was recorded. The sound can travel great distances. It travels through the air, through the streets, as a testimony to belonging and a call to friends. See Hear conceptually connects to the other work by McLoughlin, in the exhibition, Rest Here, making sense of the distances people have travelled to make Ennistymon their home, their refuge, and their place to belong. Rest Here is a spatial sound installation made from the song of the Common Swift. In heraldic tradition, the swift represents the exiled, or one without land. Yet we meet it as the communal bird, drawn together by each others’ song, returning, gathering in colonies, nesting, raising young and resting before taking flight once again. The parallels between the story of the swifts’ journey and those of people taking flight from persecution, poverty, or war in search of refuge deepened. This artwork has a simple premise. It’s an invitation, an extended welcome to the landless traveller and to remind us that we are part of their journey. We can offer support, hope and a safe place of rest. Michael McLoughlin is a visual artist, who has been making sound work, drawings, video and sculptural installations since the mid-1990’s. Much of this artwork has a sociological inquiry at its core and frequently examines mechanisms of social interaction and infrastructures that support it. Michael lectures in Fine Art at Limerick School of Art & Design where he graduated in 1994 and recently completed a PhD in Sociology at UCD.Michael McLoughlin has made site-specific work in Limerick (Cumann: An Audio Map of Limerick, Limerick City Gallery of Art) Drogheda (Cumann, Droichead Arts Centre; Beyond the Pale, Highlanes) and in Dublin (Rest Here, UCD Sutherland School of Law; Ocean Wonder, Resort Revelations, Portrane) He was the inaugural UCD College of Social Science & Law Artist-in-Residence (2015) and Artist in Residence with Dublin City Council 2017/18; Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia in 2019; Rūcka, Cēsis, Latvia, 2019/20; PRAKSIS Oslo, Norway, 2018. Michael was Artist in Residence in Draíocht Arts Centre, Blanchardstown (2017-2019) where he recently presented a major body of work Mulhuddart Satellite in 2018. In 2021 he installed 'Kad es saku tavu vārdu, es tevi atceros/ When I speak your name, I remember you' a permanent sound-based ‘memorial’ in Cēsis, Latvia, and last year presented work based on the first social dance post-Covid restrictions in the Rainbow Ballroom, Glenfarne, Leitrim (The Ballroom of Romance).