The work included a short film, a paper and a presentation around recent
conversations with women from St Mary’s Church Active Age Group and the
Widow’s Association in Athlone. Using poetry as a gateway in to these
communities and as a pathway of engagement, the women shared and vocalised their feelings around a huge range of topics, including: age, widowhood, friendship and what is important to them.

The works were presented at:

Women and Ageing: New Cultural and Critical Perspectives  (2015)
University of Limerick

Galway International Summer School on the Arts and Human Rights  (2015)
Galway University

WAM Research Summer School (2015)
University of Gloucestershire
UK

Clip from video  ‘Phenomenal Woman: A Poetic View of the Social Construction of Widows in Society’

A secondary project CRUX – sees real world placement of (upstream) matter mapped to the co-ordinates of X (crux) in Shannon-bridged Limerick city.

View pdf here

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A patchwork-in-progress

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Hi-ICONS make use of these “marks” and identity makers. In re-purposing these “signs” or “town tags” and fashioning them into wearable plastic identities – in glorious psychedelic tricolour.

Collectible-wearable art, as identity merchandise.

Where: Studios One and Two Science Gallery, Trinity College Dublin
When: 1830-2030, May 31^st 2012
Admission: Free

DATA 53.0 is a unique event to showcase the work of recent graduates across Fine Art, Digital Media, Interactive Media, Design, Gaming, Music & Audio Technology, HCI and Ubiquitous Computing.

Presenters include:

• Gearoid Beggan, Julian Ewers-Peters, Mark Keenan and Catherine Pearson (TCD) http://www.thedentalproject.org/laughinggas
• David Collier (TCD) http://davidbcollier.com/
• Tony Doyle (TCD) http://soundcloud.com/tonydoylemusic
• Edward McElroy (NCAD) http://eddiemcelroy.wordpress.com
• Karl McHugh (TCD) http://www.mee.tcd.ie/mmt
• Nicole McKenna (NCAD) http://www.unframedterritory.com/
• Kevin Nally (NCAD) http://artistknally.blogspot.com/

A contribution to http://lanadelreydancing.tumblr.com/

GONE is a sculptural light piece, with a timely presence.
As Ireland sits paused, our dreams disabled mid-sequence.
Promised futures have disappeared. Gone!

With a nod to Heidegger’s “Being and Now” and J. M. E. McTaggart’s “In the flow of time”, GONE references classic time theory, but this is not required of the viewer. GONE is a sculptural light piece,  with a timely presence.

GONE… in the wake of now  

Synopses: Data / Object / Model is a sculptural neon piece. This artwork is a 3d visualisation of data – in two flavours.
Online / offline data visualisation is currently in overload mode. Mapping / tracking  and collecting of personal data is a constant norm.

This artwork questions the priority of asthetic composition over the legitimacy of data (collection, massage and treatment).

www.booraproject.com

The Boora Project is a digital intervention in landscape and was performed live in Boora, County Offaly, on May 3rd, 2011. Please see the website for the full extent of the project.

Laser projection in landscape

Test 01
Killucan
Co Westmeath

April 2011

“Men can see nothing around them that is not their own image; everything speaks to them of themselves. Their very landscape is alive.”