Awarded Artist in Residence with the National Archives

This residency at the National Archives is supported by the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media under the Decade of Centenaries 2012-2023 Programme.

In May of this year I was awarded Artist in Residence with the National Archives of Ireland, as part of the States Decade of Centenaries Programme 2021-2023. The National Archives’ Artist-in-Residence programme is designed to support an artist in exploring new perspectives on archive material relating to the 1921-1923 period in the creation of new and original work. Public engagement will be a significant feature of the 24-month programme, and I will be providing unique insights into the process of collaborating with the National Archives as well as the collections of the National Archives and its role in preserving the records of the State, with behind the scenes video, photographic, and written documentation.

A new and ambitious undertaking which will culminate in the production and exhibition of new work. To represent this process of engagement, and as a way to make visible the behind the scenes work and research, I have set up a new space to upload material as it unfolds. Each month I will aim to release documentation, to involve the wider public in the project, which I have titled as Re-Performing State Memory.

More information will be released in the coming weeks. You can find out more about the National Archives here, and also view my work and research for the project here as it develops in the coming weeks and months.

Staff photographed in the records treasury of the PROI in 1914, eight years before its destruction in 1922 (image downloaded from the National Archives website)