This project dealt with issues of trauma, abuse and injustice, focusing specifically on cases perpetrated within Catholic Church-run institutions in Ireland.
Through the use of sound, found objects and sculpture the project aimed to communicate ideas of the domestic, but to strip away all comfort, security and warmth. It explored how the transformation of objects, traditionally associated with comfort and care, into objects of pain and fear could be used to comment on conditions inside Catholic Church run institutions in Ireland and to challenge ideas of ‘home’. The work made use of materials suggested by these institutions in order to create an atmosphere and communicate feelings and ideas specific to reformatory schools and laundries in Ireland.
This work deals with the transformation of the everyday and the domestic. Due to their familiarity, domestic objects, such as furniture, are often overlooked, yet these objects are intrinsic to the formation of our modern environments. This work transforms the banality of domestic objects and proposes a new reading of domestic interior. The everyday is interpreted, broken down, re-contextualised and abstracted in the hopes of creating an entirely new object while still maintaining a sense of wary familiarity. The work forces the viewer to take a momentary step back from that which is known, intercepting the preconceived order and offering up the potential for a new process of thought and interaction.