My art practice has been an investigation of material processes and procedures, a craft-led enterprise embarked upon to explore the mysterious divide between material reality and the disembodied world of abstract sequenced thought.

Place plays an important role in my work, both as a pre-existing environment to negotiate and a fundamental structuring device. My work is site specific in that it is created almost entirely in the exhibition space. Over the duration of an installation it responds directly to the formal qualities of the hosting space - oddities of lighting and structure, the subtle nuances of place. The idea of a particular, non-transferable set of circumstances is something that has informed all of this work.

In my practice I works directly and experimentally with materials, constructing open-ended arrangements of order and entropy, conservation and decay. I work with natural and manmade fragments, paying attention to their distinct physical properties – their weight, their balance, their particular way of occupying space, how they impinge on each other. In exploring these dynamics my art consistently operates on the plane of the personal, the particular and the intimate - the world of cataclysmic, hairsbreadth differences, irrational attachments and temporary stop-gap measures.

In my current body of work I am interested in exploring tensions and contradictions within the idea of ritual and pattern. How does artifice and ritual connect us the natural world? How can unchanging patterns generate new meaning? The pilgrimage site Trá Mhaoighris will be the focus of a material exploration of these questions.