Its not news that my work comes across scary and unsettling. I've always had strong interests in the Female Gothic and the Monstrous Feminine. There is reason behind this, that I have not shared before. Women's sexuality has often been portrayed as something scary, uncomfortable and threatening. We have been long portrayed as monstrous in literature and film, often due to their stepping out of the rules that society had placed us into and transgressing into the boundaries of the male sphere. Women who broke these rigid boundaries of their category of existence was transgressing into areas that didn't constitute what a woman was thought to be and disrupted the way which society was ordered.
Since 2013, K-FEST has been using unoccupied spaces in Killorglin, transforming vacant retail outlets, deserted buildings and even domestic homes into curated bespoke pop-up galleries. To date, K-FEST has housed over 600 visual artists and approximately 3,000 original works of art across all disciplines. The re-appropriation of 12 vacant buildings by 100 visual artists is itself a staggering work of socially engaged art. I was over the moon to have this opportunity to exhibit my work among some amazingly talented artists and people. It was so inspiring and to speak with people viewing my work was a fantastic experience (even if it was compared to Insidious by one lady, but we'll ignore that)
