Kitchen Couples

My practice moves between research, speculative storytelling, and material exploration. Working through drawing, moving image, sculpture, and primarily textile installations, I explore how histories of place, climate, and human intervention reverberate in the present and question dominant narratives of space and how we relate to shifting environments.

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My research is both archival and field-based, collecting stories, images, and fragments that trace the layered realities of lived experience. These are combined with visual references ranging from early artworks to contemporary media, creating a vocabulary that merges cultural history with the present moment.

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My work attempts to balance play and critique by taking images, abstracting, translating, and transforming them, and then using them to retell stories. I use colour, texture, and pattern as tools to translate into visual form, developing abstract languages that give shape to forces often felt but not easily seen. Alongside my studio practice, I facilitate a variety of textile based workshops in Ireland and the Netherlands as a means of exchange and community connection.