I make art and write to create a place to exist honestly and vulnerably, to dispel feelings of irrelevance and cultural ambiguity, and to have a sense of belonging and connectedness to the world.

Recent work is a response to the death of the image and the post-representational turn brought about by the loss of meaning in an image-saturated world. Based in Kinsale, Co. Cork, Ireland, early work consisted of large abstract paintings expressing an indefinable presence with epic implications. Later, work engaged with the world through site-specific installations that explored representation.

Found images are adapted to create abstract paintings and drawings Horizons where the original is hidden in a forest of post-representational visual noise. A second series uses Venn Diagrams as a self-directed systematic approach to making paintings Vessels. At the same time, the text-based work Cantos, based on notebooks collected between 2014 and 2024, meanders through thoughts about meaning and process, texts are reframed in the style of an epic, non-rhyming stream-of-consciousness, prose poem.