I took this photo of my family seated on John Kennedy’s installation called ‘The Watchers’ in the Aberdeenshire countryside in the Scottish highlands. The seating provide hooded shelters and each cowl is formed like origami folded sheets of steel.
The Watchers inspired me to think on the lines of a shelter for peach and human rights activists who gather at the last roundabout on the road leading to Shannon Airport every month to protest against US military landings contrary to Irelands neutrality.
I chose this topic in response to our Summer brief. We were tasked with responding to “A Guide to Demanding the Impossible”.
I am not an activist but I am interested in what is happening around me especially when it comes to my own country. I prefer to work in abstraction often using themes of a political nature, not because I want to scream and shout about it from the roof tops, I prefer to work in a more subtle way, a technique I have learned through out my years in LSAD. It has been a massive learning curve which I am very thankful for. I now know who I am as an artist and it has taken some time to understand me, the journey has been amazing and I have loved every minute of it.