Through the process of ongoing site research, the core focus of my work has been challenging what a contemporary Ireland looks like via issues around housing, education, community planning and more recently immigration. With a special interest in the conceptualisation of borders through division and intersections of communities on the island. Concurrent to this I have been considering the current political and economic state of the country using creative outputs to draw parallels between different regions and communities in Ireland. 

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My approach to this research has been through site exploration, cultural mapping and archives from Kildare and Limerick County council. I have found floor plans and satellite imagery can give an idea of a space and insight of what goes on there, often times the people who occupy these spaces are left behind and I am interested in what story the environments tell us when they are gone. While floor plans are clean, modular and straightforward in their visual form, it is a high contrast on current issues surround planning and housing in the current climate.

Photography has been an obvious vessel for capturing physical restrictions and rejection of communities around Limerick and Kildare. Often, we can overlook the concrete blocks beside roundabouts and cattle grids in cities, but they are reminders of division within different communities. Investigating mainstream media’s representation of underrepresented groups in Ireland and using purposeful materials in my work to nod to the black and white nature of our media today. Physical and theoretical barriers posed upon various groups in Ireland while sometimes practical, need to be questioned and challenged equally.