What is it to be here? How do you represent that experience? What are the implications for representation in the face of today's crisis? A world facing climate change and extinction. My work investigated the loss of the world through the loss of the visual world, particularly painting, and the shattering of preconceived ideas about the image.

I make art and write to create a place where I can exist honestly and vulnerably, explore the nature of being and consciousness, dispel feelings of irrelevance and cultural ambiguity, and feel a sense of belonging and connectedness to the world.

Recent work responds to the death of the image and the post-representational transcendental turn brought about by the loss of meaning in an image-saturated world. Based in Kinsale, Co. Cork, Ireland, early work consisted of large abstract paintings expressing an indefinable presence with epic implications. Later, work engaged with the world through site-specific installations that explored a pan-disciplinary approach to ideas about representation.

Found images are adapted to create abstract paintings and drawings (Horizons) where the original is hidden in a forest of post-representational visual noise. A second series uses Venn Diagrams as a self-directed systematic approach to making paintings (Vessels). At the same time, the text-based work (Cantos), based on notebooks collected between 2014 and 2024, meanders through thoughts about meaning and process, creativity and politics, texts are reframed in the style of an epic, non-rhyming stream-of-consciousness, prose poem.