My latest work Sounding Peace, builds on an earlier Arts Council England funded R&D project, Soldier Stories, in which we interviewed a small group of female veterans to talk about peacekeeping and female leadership in the forces, culminating in a test soundtrail What is the Sound of Peace?, geo- located at two locations in and…
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Sonic Hauntings in A Big House (2024)
This week sees the release of a new vinyl album on Farpoint Recordings, Sonic Hauntings in a Big House. The work is a limited edition of 250 copies, plus artist proofs. The album emerged out of a practice-based PhD in Ireland, in which I investigated the archives of a historic house in Bray, County Wicklow,…
The Ancestors (2024)
From May 2019 – March 2023, I was artist-in-residence at Killruddery House & Gardens in Bray, County Wicklow as part of a practice-based PhD at SMARTlab, Inclusive Design Research Centre of Ireland, University College Dublin – funded by Irish Research Council (IRC). The research project Killruddery: Listening to the Archive was successfully completed in June…
listening to the wind (2024)
Wexford Arts Centre 20th February – 21 March (open Tues-Sat) Opening event 17th February, 3pm, with performances by Joseph Young and Suzanne Walsh, everyone welcome! listening to the wind is a four channel sound installation with custom built seating, entitled listening to the wind (below), inspired by the life and work of English artist, writer…
French Pavilion, Venice Architecture Biennale (2023)
My sound piece The Destruction of Language (after Le Madame), originally created in 2008 and re-edited in 2023, has been selected as part of a programme of international sound works responding to the theme of Radio Utopia, News from the World in the French Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale from August 1-5th. The work…
Listening Hands (2021)
As part of the Interbeing project, which I am co-curating with ceramic artist Kay Aplin, we are producing a film inspired by the Tai Chi form. The film came about after I performed at the Park 19 artist residency centre in Guangzhou showcasing my Sonic Baton instrument which I use to conduct field recordings. After…
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