Artist Statement

Formally trained as a biologist, a primary theme that informs my practice is the intersection of the visual arts and the sciences. These disciplines are often perceived as being distinct from each other, but they share many commonalities including that they are systems that produce knowledge, in addition to being avenues for investigation and communication.

Currently enrolled in a Master's of Fine Art program at NCAD, the core of my current research is a creative engagement with archives, which expanded from a National Gallery of Ireland project. This involves the development of programmatic methodologies to generate free-form text and an embodied audio response as avenues to explore themes of disintegration, dissipation and the universal entropic processes that we strive to resist.

Art and archives can be considered transmission systems, conduits for lived experiences, portals to narratives that can be continually expanded by the subjective experience. Artworks and archived objects are never truly complete, remaining open-ended as we perpetually enter into a dialogue with both. Chance encounters, an integral element of archival research, can also be pivotal points that propel an artistic endeavour forward. By intentionally harnessing randomness, I desire not only to create objects, but also to see what will happen?, a commonality shared between artistic and scientific experimentation.