Why Drawing Matters...to me.

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

​"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” (O’Toole 2021).

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.

​I combine fieldwork, studio, material and new-phenomenological research to enquire the ways in which atmospheric spaces are active agents in the drawings. My aim is to enact ‘holding space’ for an intimacy as sensed through our felt bodies that is in a dialogue with wider forces at play including social, environmental and cultural contexts.

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

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