Finding my signature moves. Cailleacha damhsa (Dancing Hags) I’m a visual person, is it weird that I can’t visualise myself? Kicking a new film idea into pre-production is tough, I resist opening the door because I am fully aware there is no closing it...
For my swimming sister Colleen It is not the cold that scares me, my screams are piercing though, it is the power. I need to make peace with the ocean, its potential for harm. I have previously run into the water on southern sands, naked, an offering of myself and my...
What Kind of Courage? To leave family, country and your night sky? What kind of courage does it take to migrate, to journey worlds away from home? For me Irish culture is not performative, it is expressive. That is, not fixed traditionally as ‘Irish’, more...
Intangible The Rare Trades Centre recently invited me (Erin) to speak about my practice as part of their popular quarterly Petcha Kucha series, this one with a theme of Intangible. Intangible — a word that threads through both spirit and craft. A sprid (ghost) is the...
Ghostly ghosting ghosts – the wonders of the dark A years work in 25 mins felt for eternity. A Chuisle mo Chroí (Pulse of My Heart) A Chuisle mo Chroí My Honours film research project titled A Chuisle mo Chroí (Pulse of My Heart) has resulted in a...
