Recent work is a response to the death of the image and the post-representational turn brought about by the loss of meaning in an ever-increasing technological world. Based in Kinsale, Co. Cork, Ireland, early work consists of large oil paintings with epic implications. Following the conceptualisation of the work in the late 1990s, a site-specific multi-media approach through the 2000s, a return to painting in 2014, and recent developments in text-based and digital artwork, follow a pan-disciplinary approach to making work.
Text-based work based on notebooks collected over many years meanders through thoughts about meaning and process; texts are reframed in the style of epic, non-rhyming, stream-of-consciousness prose poems.
I make art and write to explore the nature of being and consciousness, to feel a sense of belonging and connectedness to the world, the amazing cosmic wonder that is life and the real threat to that life we are facing and how we can turn this around by embracing the unknown and the unknowable as a resistance to computational capitalism and its inevitable reductionism.