I am an architect and artist from Dublin, now living and working in County Longford. I studied Architecture at University College Dublin and I am completing a BA in Contemporary Art at Atlantic Technological University, Galway. My work explores the threshold between figuration and abstraction, a space of perception, of what is and what is maybe, where everything is maybe something else. As an architect, I find that the same thought processes about making buildings translate into how I think about making art; I have the same preoccupations with form, line, shape, geometry, colour, materiality and the reduction of the image or object into its minimal expression, all informed by the process of making. Working primarily through drawing and painting, my subject matter is concerned with ideas about representing the figure, the natural world and its phenomena and the in-between spaces of the built environment within this space. Inspiration comes from source images, sketchbook drawings, the philosophies of pan-psychism and deep ecology and history of art and architecture, in particular the modernist period in art, design and architecture.
