I had the pleasure of exhibiting 6 of my images last weekend in the ReVerve Artist Collective group exhibition during the Hinterland Festival in Kells. The exhibition’s theme and the Collective’s theme is the environment.

Dúisigí which is the Irish for Wake Up! was our visual call out to viewers to pay more attention to our world, to what we are doing to our world and the consequences of these actions. My own images explore the fragile and evolving relationship between humans and the natural world, using materials and processes that echo both intervention and care. Through photography and site-responsive practices, I reveal subtle interactions between presence and absence, growth and decay, the natural and the human-made.

I have stitched natural elements and found human traces into these photographs in order to explore themes of disruption and repair. By working with landscapes marked by weather, time, and human debris, the tensions we inherit and the ones we create, as well as the possibilities for rejoining what has been separated are revealed.

Central to my practice is the idea that brokenness holds its own kind of beauty, and that restoration need not conceal damage but can instead highlight it with care and intention. The resulting works are gestures toward empathy with the land—documents of resilience, vulnerability, and the traces we leave behind.

The exhibition took place from 26 – 29th June 2025 in the Blue Chapel, Kells.