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ARTIST STATMENT
I have an ongoing independent practice making films for inclusion in installation/interventions within galleries or as individual pieces in their own right. My films are made using the camera as an accomplice exploring ideas of implausible games played out within the home. The digital methodologies I use in recording performance encounters are affective instigators of intimacy. The installations created use the architecture of the gallery to engage the viewer, who is asked to physically compromise themselves in order to see the work.
The camera in my work is a device used as an uncritical companion, as both audience and actor. My work explores sites where performance and intimacy, architecture and the visceral collide. Using the camera as an accompanying intimate, I perform behind it, scanning domestic spaces like cupboards, wardrobes, or under the bed. I explore private places, places to be private, hiding places and finding places, playing out strangely cathartic games. When a home becomes a place of performance, the necessity for intimacy could become a search through implausible spaces, a playground for the actor and the audience alike.
Having achieved a BA in Fine Art at DIT in Dublin in 2001, I travelled to London and undertook an MA in Textiles at Goldsmiths College, University of London in 2003.
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