Ina Ghrian, Ina Tír, Ina Chliabhán

This body of work is rooted in experiences of home, identity, ‘Irishness’ and seeks to explore the position and experience of the female in traditional and contemporary Irish culture. Through Installation, I attempt to dismantle the nostalgia propagated by romanticised notions of traditional Irish identity and deconstruct the inherent patriarchal discourses associated with rural Ireland. I displace domestic labours within the rural landscape, challenging traditional land-ownership laws and gendering tropes of the landscape as female. I seek to reclaim this feminine space and explore the ritualistic nature of domestic work.

Using a multi-speaker soundscape, performance, printmaking, and sculpture I attempt to create an immersive space for the viewer to encounter. The clothesline, which acts as an extension of the domestic space into the Landscape and carries a historical and cultural significance, is monumentalised within the installation. The televisions, the centre of the contemporary household, are cast in commercially purchased soil, speaking to globalisation, industrialisation, and the displacement from traditional culture. The use of familiar objects and the materiality of the work attempts to evoke a merging of the domestic and the rural spaces as I reclaim and reconstitute these spaces as a site of convergence.

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