Artist Statement

Born and raised in Ireland and currently living and working in Australia, my background covers a graphic design degree completed in Dublin, followed by a photography diploma in Melbourne. These disciplines taught me to pay close attention to structure, definition, and precision, and helped me appreciate how deliberate decisions can have more impact than decoration for its own sake.

Over the past few years, I’ve shifted my focus to the visual arts, where those foundations have evolved into a style of painting centred around lettering, shapes, and symbols arranged in abstract configurations. My work generally carries messages that are sometimes personal, sometimes social or political, or generally responding to whatever feels important in the world around me.

Precision has always been a part of my nature, and is now integral to how I work. I’m drawn to clean, decisive lines and complex compositions that sit firmly within the realm of hard-edge abstraction. I always seem to gravitate to dense patterns and I’m intrigued by the energy that’s produces when controlled structure meets chaotic colour and rhythm.

I have recently been diagnosed with ADHD, which is news that brought both clarity and relief. It helped me understand why I've always felt pulled towards two seemingly opposite impulses, a desire for order and an attraction to visual chaos. That duality has run throughout my work since I began painting, shaping both my process and the finished works. The discipline of graphic design, the observational skills learned through photography, and the meandering trajectory of my overactive mind, all bring something to the balance that I’m continually exploring on canvas.

If you would like to get in touch, please feel free to contact me via the ‘Contact’ page.

Slán :)