2023 NCAD University Cert in Drawing and Visual Investigation

We exist in the now creating memories, ephemeral and transitory, on life’s timeline. They are flitting and fading unless we choose to revisit them. Memories, triggered by events, become emotional responses to our everyday environment. Our eyes act like a camera, ears record sound, and our brain processes and stores information as memories.

We have so many memories that we do not remember as we ride the treadmill of life, doing what we do on a repetitive basis. A walk in my local park, with the same landmarks still there, I remember them being there from the past & the present. The buildings in my village, all still there. I am still using the shops, cafes, schools, but I am collecting those memories.

I endeavour to explore memory through a wide variety of media, including collage, compressed charcoal, ink, bleach and ink, carbon drawing, correction fluid, tracing paper, graph paper, posca pens and watercolour. My photographic sources conjured up experimental abstract colours and lines brought on by an inkjet printer coming to the end of its life. Some photographs are more reminiscent of a negative image struck through with lines which were then incorporated into the fabric of my final pieces. With these visual references sampled and spliced, refracted light and colour are explored through commonplace objects and events.