Photo Works

Books: series of 8

Republican prisoners kept a library of books in the post-hunger strike period after 1981. These book’s surfaces have became a repository that offer insight into their psychological condition in the aftermath of these events. 

Windows: series of 11

These images were made in a derelict wing of the Maze Prison complex. The images suggest the psychological as part of a mapping process of the surfaces and how they, like memory itself, are replaced or fictionalised to accommodate the patina of trauma.

Ruins: series of 8

This photographic workemerges from the recent demolition site area of the Maze/ Long Kesh Prison from 2007. These images allude to the reconstruction and aftermath of events that is a repository of a social conflict history and suggests the psychological impact of this history. 

These three photographic based works look at the trace of memorial experiences
of individuals from the 1980’s hunger strikes in Northern Ireland.
The camera has been used to explore and map out trace and metaphor of the memorial residue and psychological insight. These works are from sites of incidence; the Maze/ Long Kesh prison complex and a prison library book collection that have become part of a process of narrativised history making. The photographic work is immersed in this evocative environment, however not memorialised but visualised.

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Other projects: 1994- 2004