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Graphite on gessoed book endpaper
23 x 29 cm
2025
Rooted in my experience of growing up during the Northern Ireland ‘Troubles’ and relocating to England in my twenties, my work explores themes of loss, trauma and the persistence of memory. Drawing directly on the pages and covers of old books, I layer new imagery over traces of existing text and illustration, creating surfaces where histories overlap and time seems to drift. Water serves as both subject and symbol: fluid, reflective and unpredictable. The sea becomes a drifting expanse of remembering and forgetting, suggesting migration, distance and emotional undercurrents tied to exile and return. Using the tonal depth of blending, erasing and layering graphite, I build atmospheric spaces that hover between beauty and menace, while the intimate scale draws viewers into quiet, yet unsettled worlds that feel simultaneously familiar and estranged. These drawings, which fuse inherited fragments with personal mythology, imagine the sea as a threshold where boundaries dissolve and transformation becomes possible. In this space of uncertainty and fluidity, the act of drawing becomes a means of navigating loss and imagining renewal.
Graphite on gessoed book endpaper
23 x 29 cm
2025
Rooted in my experience of growing up during the Northern Ireland ‘Troubles’ and relocating to England in my twenties, my work explores themes of loss, trauma and the persistence of memory. Drawing directly on the pages and covers of old books, I layer new imagery over traces of existing text and illustration, creating surfaces where histories overlap and time seems to drift. Water serves as both subject and symbol: fluid, reflective and unpredictable. The sea becomes a drifting expanse of remembering and forgetting, suggesting migration, distance and emotional undercurrents tied to exile and return. Using the tonal depth of blending, erasing and layering graphite, I build atmospheric spaces that hover between beauty and menace, while the intimate scale draws viewers into quiet, yet unsettled worlds that feel simultaneously familiar and estranged. These drawings, which fuse inherited fragments with personal mythology, imagine the sea as a threshold where boundaries dissolve and transformation becomes possible. In this space of uncertainty and fluidity, the act of drawing becomes a means of navigating loss and imagining renewal.