Bailieborough Creative Hub’s Summer Exhibition takes places in The Courthouse, Bailieborough, Cavan from Saturday 19 July (opening at 2pm) until Saturday 2 August 2025

‘Dystopian Billboard’ examines the fragile boundary between nature and human culture, using decaying billboards as symbols of both resilience and impermanence. The work reflects on how our constructed landscapes are inevitably shaped and reclaimed by natural forces, revealing the intertwined narratives of humanity, environment, and time.

My environmental work explores the fragile and shifting relationship between humans and the natural world, often through landscapes where the traces of human presence are being weathered, reclaimed, or quietly absorbed by nature. Using photography and site-responsive practices, I focus on the points where growth meets decay, and where the constructed and organic overlap — revealing a space of both tension and transformation. I’m drawn to places marked by erosion, neglect, or abandonment — sites where the effects of time, weather, and human intervention converge. These locations speak not only to environmental disruption but also to the potential for repair. Natural elements and found human debris become materials through which I consider how damage might be acknowledged rather than erased, and how beauty can be found in what has been altered or broken. Central to my practice is the belief that restoration doesn’t have to mean concealment. Instead, I aim to highlight fragility with intention and care, creating work that acts as a quiet form of empathy—for the land, for the passage of time, and for the unresolved traces we leave behind.