Tomorrow, at Watts Gallery & Artists Village the Edges project enters its final phase with the opening of a collaborative international exhibition of sound and ceramics, featuring artists from Ireland and Estonia.

Edges began with a residency and exhibition, Peripheries at The Ceramic House in April-May 2022 and continued last summer with a residency at Interface with Kay Aplin in Connemara, Ireland, followed by an autumn residency with Kay at Watts Gallery. In February 2024, Wexford Arts Centre hosted the first omnibus Edges exhibition, which featured my own four-channel sound installation listening to the wind (created from field recordings collected on residency in Connemara).  The current exhibition is a transfer from Wexford, accompanied by two new bodies of work from Kay and myself which came out of our residency at Watts.

My new work is a geo-located soundtrail Where we meet… which accompanies the listener from the main body of the exhibition at Limnerslease, the former home and studios of GF and Mary Watts (the founders of the Watts estate) to The Chapel in the cemetery nearby. As you walk between the two sites you hear sounds recorded in the partner nations, Ireland and Estonia, ‘psychedelic’ drones and sonic manipulations, and the voice of curator Hilary Underwood talking about the history of the Watts estate. In The Chapel, is an edited version of my sound installation listening to the wind re-imagined for the digital realm. Kay has created a new set of sculptures entitled Foraminifera I-IV, inspired by the legacy of Mary Watts textural and colourful artistry and the landscape of Connemara. The walk also features a sound piece by our co-curator Richard Carr, The Lighthouse, created in partnership with Sascha Terfous & Basciville.

You can download the Echoes app and listen to the work here.