Why Drawing Matters...to me.

​"The question is not how a space feels to me but how it feels though me. In other words, it's not how I perceive a space but how a space is perceived through me"  

I make work that materialises the non-representational aspects of our world by mapping the ‘emotional vibrations’ of spaces.  

I consider myself a ‘patheur’; someone who follows their intuitive impulses, and I make drawings that must be felt rather than only cerebrally understood.

My aim is to enact an intimacy through our felt bodies; a ‘holding space’ for a dialogue with wider forces at play within ecology, social, environmental and political contexts. 

I combine fieldwork, material and new/phenomenological research to enquire the ways in which these atmospheric spaces are active agents in the drawings.

I’m an independent visual artist and practice-based researcher currently a doctoral researcher (PT) at Loughborough University, UK.

Co-founder of Drawing deCentered which is artist-led collective that explores contemporary drawing practice in Ireland. 
www.drawingdecentered.com

Member of N I N E-artists ​
​nine-artist

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