A R T I C L E S : S E E N A N D U N S E E N
As the earth heats, our habitable world destabilizes, with every fraction of a degree hotter the more precarious our future becomes. This project asks: Is Ireland’s media responding with urgency to the climate crisis Ireland declared in 2019? To investigate, I examined Ireland’s most read and watched media, The Irish Independent, The Irish Times, and RTÉ News for the year 2024, the hottest on record. The project focuses on front pages and headlines as indicators of what is deemed most critical each day.
The work materialises this inquiry through a series of paper clay tiles created from pulped newspapers, and affixed to the walls of a domino-like tunnel. The passage doubles as a type of walk-through calendar with incisions signifying days with no climate coverage. At its end, a light slowly shifts, evoking temperature graphs, a setting sun, or a silent alarm. The video is marked largely by absence of media coverage, with each day being represented by a glitch per second.
Often perceived as abstract or distant climate change struggles for immediacy in a news cycle dominated by other mounting crises. The work itself mirrors marginalisation, installed peripherally along the rooms edges. To confront this crisis, we must see it not only as an environmental and scientific issue, but also political and cultural, shaped by those who control what is seen, heard, and felt.
Work shown as part of Vertigo: A Crescendo, Cork County Council Building, Cork City, 7 - 9 April, 2025
Supported by an Arts Council Project award with artist collective inter_site
Video by Albert Hooi
Images by Roland Paschhoff
The work materialises this inquiry through a series of paper clay tiles created from pulped newspapers, and affixed to the walls of a domino-like tunnel. The passage doubles as a type of walk-through calendar with incisions signifying days with no climate coverage. At its end, a light slowly shifts, evoking temperature graphs, a setting sun, or a silent alarm. The video is marked largely by absence of media coverage, with each day being represented by a glitch per second.
Often perceived as abstract or distant climate change struggles for immediacy in a news cycle dominated by other mounting crises. The work itself mirrors marginalisation, installed peripherally along the rooms edges. To confront this crisis, we must see it not only as an environmental and scientific issue, but also political and cultural, shaped by those who control what is seen, heard, and felt.
Work shown as part of Vertigo: A Crescendo, Cork County Council Building, Cork City, 7 - 9 April, 2025
Supported by an Arts Council Project award with artist collective inter_site
Video by Albert Hooi
Images by Roland Paschhoff
R E S T R UC T U R I N G E L E M E N T S
Restructuring Elements blurs boundaries between self, surroundings, and structures, where the solid becomes liquid and dichotomies dissolve. This altering environment challenges static notions of form and identity, fostering fluidity and disrupting fixed patterns to open new possibilities for transformation. At this societal and environmental precipice, the interstitial space becomes a site of potentiality—a place for interaction, reimagining, and reconfiguration.
Solo exhibition at Crane Visual, Shandon, Cork City, 16 January - 27 February
Images by Roland Paschhoff
Solo exhibition at Crane Visual, Shandon, Cork City, 16 January - 27 February
Images by Roland Paschhoff
C A S C A D I N G , H I G H
Cascading, high is a photographic installation documenting the financial districts and developing docklands in cities such as Lisbon, London, Dublin and Cork. It examines the financialization and homogenization of space. Capturing the phantasmagorical effects of these glass and steel structures it echoes the illusionary and disorientating sense of living within the structures of neoliberalism.
Layered 35mm photographic prints on vegetal paper
Layered 35mm photographic prints on vegetal paper
C E A S E L E S S , M O R E
Ceaseless, more spoken word performance explores a breathlessness of humanity by the hand of capitalism, and the drive towards perpetual progress. A sense of accelerating constriction undergirds the performance. It weaves social and political contexts and its effects on the corporeal and takes a critical stance on our current reality. Using materials from the adjacent construction site viewed from the window, the inner and outer environments are linked.
Installation and spoken word performance.
Installation and spoken word performance.
O N U N S O L I D G R O U N D
On Unsolid Ground draws from architectural research on the particular street which the exhibition was being held South Main Street which referenced the streets previous state as an area of reed beds. This work imagines Cork City in its previous form as a marshland, pre reclamation and development, meandered by the river Lee. A phantom place in a crypt like room, its acts almost like a homage to the lost landscape. Through coalescing fragments of time and space our positioning in an interlinked, transforming ecology is brought into question.
Suspended reeds, video projection, sound
Oscillation: An Altering Rhythm, inter_site at the Counting House for Stamp Festival with Sample Studios, 19 - 21 May 2023
Images by Roland Paschhoff
A D U S T I N G, A G L I M M E R
A Dusting, A Glimmer is a sculptural installation and performance using shards of found glass and mirror sourced within the post industrial site in Barreiro, Portugal once the largest conglomerate of industry in Portugal. Though it now lies mostly in ruin, many of the original shareholders still have shares in many of the businesses across Portugal including in insurance and private hospitals. The work looks at the act of looking to the past to understand the present and how this may have affects for the future.
Found Glass shards, light and accompanying performance
PADA, Barreiro Portugal, 26 August, 2022
Supported by a Cork City Council Artist Bursary
Images by Lena Lewis-King
Found Glass shards, light and accompanying performance
PADA, Barreiro Portugal, 26 August, 2022
Supported by a Cork City Council Artist Bursary
Images by Lena Lewis-King
C A S C A D I N G , H I G H
PADA, Barreiro, Portugal, 26 August, 2022
Supported by a Cork City Council Artist Bursary
Images and video by Lena Lewis-King
Supported by a Cork City Council Artist Bursary
Images and video by Lena Lewis-King
S T A C K E D, M I S P L A C E D, E R A S E D
Commissioned by Catalyst Arts as part of Future(s), Belfast Photo Festival, 2021
Images by Ben Malcolmson
Images by Ben Malcolmson