My practice interrogates the persistent effects of intergenerational trauma in Ireland, caused by the twin evils of colonisation and institutional religion. The work strives to convey the resonances between my ancestor's physical toil and mental struggle. Specific aspects include forced domestic and agricultural labour, sectarianism, and excommunication.

The booming Ulster linen industry of the 19th and 20th century is a focal point, in terms of the damage done to the water and the people. I also utilise the desolate boglands and discordant coastline of the Belmullet Peninsula in Mayo, as an allegory for layers of ancestral trauma.

Working with found and made objects, performance art and film, my installation seeks to unveil and release inherited patterns and influences from four, and more, generations ago. My performances are acts of psychomagic - a surrealist trauma therapy developed by Chilean filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky - enacted with intention, to heal my family line.