Let It Enfold You, Limerick School of Art and Design Graduate Show 2023

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Statement

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Hostile Fruits is a body of work that responds to an abandoned orchard near my home, in the west of Ireland. I am concerned with feminine chaos in nature alongside an exploration of existential meaning through an aesthetic experience.

The orchard is a place of order and cultivation. Left to decay, grow and change the orchard has an unquiet atmosphere. I am interested in the push and pull between chaos and order, life and death and darkness and light. This hostile environment is intimate, visceral and inevitable.

My gestural painting process responds impulsively to this unquiet landscape, using ambiguous shapes that sow seeds of uncertainty, strange and sometimes unnatural colours and incorporates text that reflects her experience of this environment.