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instinct both
affirms and masks...
the call of the thing to be made...

The captivation known to some artists.

That this must be made.

Period.

Vinciane Despret,
What Would Animals Say If
We Asked The Right Questions?
,
2012, Editions La Découverte, p122

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  • projects

    this page lists different art projects by date. click on the images or links to visit pages for the overall project.

  • research, video, drawing, process

    aiteann

    a research residency and series about aiteann (gorse) and wildfires as part of the international research project FIRECULT

    Wicklow, Ireland

    Leitrim, Ireland

    Berick-upon-Tweed, England

    2025-

    view works and information

    a burnt stump taken from a low angle
  • community engagement, ritual, video, research, collaboration

    ^

    work from the collaborative group ^ from 2022-date is documented at another website. Click on the image below to view this.

    ^, Manorhamilton, Ireland

    The Glens Centre, Manorhamilton, Ireland

    2022-2026

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    people in costume walk down a road in a rural town holding a banner that says benbo on it
  • research, video, socially engaged, photographs, stickers, performance, string figures

    untangle

    community engaged project about the entanglements between technology, clothing and lace

    Limerick, Ireland

    2024-25

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    abstract image of string-based sculptural installation
  • video, drawing, interactive installation

    the edge is where everything happens

    considering material relationships and porous borders between human, nonhuman organism, and technological object

    Swap Space, University of Performing Arts and Music, Graz, Austria

    Artlink Fort Dunree, Ireland

    ^, Manorhamilton, Ireland

    ecoversities, India

    2022-2024

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    a concentric series of ovals with a photograph of beach stones inside
  • interactive installation

    Assembly

    considering the (hi)stories that we choose to tell, and how technology influences these narratives

    Jackie Clarke Collection, Ballina, Ireland

    2022-23

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    An art installation with screens and a projection in a dark room, showing images of water. newspaper wallpaper surrounds this
  • interactive installation, drawing, public intervention

    ]EXPOSURE[[ENCLOSURE]

    complex relationships between human, animal and technology, working with farmers and researchers exploring endemic livestock disease

    Project FIELD, University of Lincoln, UK

    Leitrim Sculpture Centre, Ireland

    2020-22

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    6-video art installation built into a hexagon with different animals on each screen
  • interactive installation, video, writing, tree planting

    Wood Wide Web

    the entanglements of forest, technological and human networks in an area where 39,000 native trees are being planted in the UK

    Visual Arts in Rural Communities, Highgreen, Northumberland UK

    Northumberland Wildlife Trust, Northumberland, UK

    2020-22

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    a light-based art installation with many glowing cables emerging from a tree-like form
  • interactive installation, textile, painting, writing

    Solastalgia

    grief felt by loss of place, influenced by glenn albrecht's phrase 'solastalgia'

    ^, Manorhamilton, Ireland

    Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

    Lockstown, Wicklow, Ireland

    Charlestown Arts Centre, Sligo, Ireland

    2019-23

    view works and information

    Goldfinch flapping its wings next to a bird feeder filled with peanuts
  • interactive installation, video

    Antikythera, etc.

    five projects that consider technologies that never were, or that were never given a chance

    Rye Creative Centre, Rye, UK

    Duncairn Arts Centre, Belfast, Northern Ireland

    Wormwood Gate, Dublin, Ireland

    Regional Cultural Centre, Letterkenny, Ireland

    2016-20

    view works and information

    An art installation in a room with a projection over a near-white painting
  • painting

    ADA

    a distributed archipelago; a painting split into 96 pieces and distributed around the world

    Wandelbar Art International, Gstaad, Switzerland

    2015

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    a colourful abstract painting with a bridge, pipes and buildings
  • interactive installation

    Our Altered Places

    technological objects interfering in places where they would not usually be

    Where It's At, The Big Picture, Tallaght, Ireland

    Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

    Phase One, The Dock, Carrick-on-Shannon, Ireland

    2013-16

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    a person using an old telphone outside that is wired to a digital receiver
  • painting, object

    Hubbert's Peak

    considering plastic as a material technology, and its relationship to a global energy infrastructure

    Vermont Studio Center, Vermont, USA

    2012

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    detail of a painting with a jumble of wires around an electricity pole
  • painting, installation

    Archipelago

    considering islands, insularity and the myth of individuality after the economic crash, created between ireland and iceland

    Push Remote Arts, Sligo, Ireland

    Nes Artist Residency, Skagastrond, Iceland

    2011-12

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    colourful painting of a row of buildings with tetris blocks and a person falling from the sky
  • painting, collage, video

    Floating Islands

    precursor to archipelago, with a focus on how selfish thinking created the 2008 financial crash

    Nes Artist Residency, Skagastrond, Iceland

    2011-12

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    colourful painting of a row of buildings with tetris blocks and a person falling from the sky
  • installation, painting

    Future Proof

    built-in obsolecence in technologies

    Granby Park, Dublin, Ireland

    Nes Artist Residency, Skagastrond, Iceland

    2009-13

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    An art installation detail with bicycle wheels, tubes and video tape
  • painting

    Anonymous

    a very long-running self-portrait

    Push Remote Arts, SLigo, Ireland

    IT Sligo, Ireland (Degree work)

    2008-10

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    A painting detail showing a person coyly looking at the viewer with a chaotic background
  • installation, painting

    Places and Non-Places

    considering marc auge's non-places ten years on from the english language publication

    IT Sligo, Ireland (Degree work)

    2008-09

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    A painting showing a long building with red doors

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