I am visual artist based in Cork, Ireland. I specialise in contemporary landscape oil painting. My art practice primarily explores spatial cultures with a particular focus on speculative future landscapes and peripheral topographies.
My painting work examines the relationship, contrast and dichotomy between the built and the natural world. I am fascinated by liminal environments and structures that lie on the margins of human habitation. I often explore the interstitial spaces and edgelands situated at the intersection of the urban and rural.
My painting practice is grounded in an archaeology of the recent past and I see it as a means of uncovering hidden layers of meaning within the everyday. Most of my paintings are fictional landscapes and structures that are loosely based on locations I have visited, researched and photographed in the past. I than amalgamate these images or ideas into a metaphorical environment within my paintings in order to reflect upon wider socio-geographic issues, such as ecological degradation, alterity, peripherality, speculative future landscapes and The Anthropocene.
I am interested in infrastructure and habitats that are ambiguous, amorphic or obsolete. I see these structures and places as being an architecture of the periphery and an allegorical reference for time, change and history as well as being symbolic or suggestive of an anthropomorphic landscape. Much of my painting practice explores potential future landscapes inspired by ethereal topographies that oscillate between progress and decline within the arena of the everyday.
