Year:
2021
Dimensions:
30 x 40 cm
Technique:
Photo etching
Active Forgetting highlights Irish institutional abuse in Mother and Baby Homes/ Magdalene Laundries, 1922 to 1998. An exploration of insidious trauma both from a personal and political viewpoint. My eldest brother Joe was born in Bon Secours Mother and Baby Home, Tuam , County Galway, Ireland to my unmarried mother, Annie Maher. This was, and still is, kept secret in my family. For the last two years I have been working on Active Forgetting. As the descendant of a survivor of Bon Secours I feel I have a unique perspective which is both a privilege and a burden. Planned works in 2023/24 focus on researching kinetic sc Read more...rspective which is both a privilege and a burden. Planned works in 2023/24 focus on researching kinetic sculptural print works as communicable forms of sensation and affect to register something of the experience of traumatic memory via formal innovation and process.
