Rendition is a site specific installation of thematic art.

I curate my interactive installations, mixed media sculpture, film and visual fine art to suit chosen spaces which have connected meaning or significance. Many pieces were originally family objects. New pieces are created for each site.

Individual pieces may appear in community galleries or shows on connected themes.

The works are detailed below in the chronological order of making

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The Washing Line Protest

In 2014 I created my first washing line protest outside the Irish embassy in London for our Tuam vigil. These simple visual protests remember women who were forced to work in laundries and institutions, and that their babies were stolen. ‘‘Our beautiful babies are not dirty laundry.’’ This piece is scalable and site specific in terms of placing, fixtures and fittings and the embroidered messages or names on the babygrows.

THE 1950’s TV CABINET

This is first piece I made specifically for ‘Rendition’ as an exhibition. In its original form it is material culture. Bought for the Queens coronation this Phillips projector TV travelled to Ireland with my mum Maria’s adopted parents. The family were often able to watch the BBC in Wicklow in the East before Irish broadcasting began.

It has become an interactive installation to be viewed from both the front and the back.

The back is now an embodiment of grief; the missed opportunity for reunion. The front now plays a BBC documentary that mum and I recorded together with Chris Page to amplify her call for an apology from the British State. Mum saw this when it aired, two weeks before she died in 2023.

A poignant memory is of mum stuck on top of boxes, on top of the tv cabinet, She had this sudden overwhelming feeling that her birth mum had died. I helped her down and we sat crying together. We wrote letters together to the adoption board to try and find her mum. I was 13 it was 1988. Later we discovered her mum had died in 1988.

The tv plays our documentary with the bbc on a never ending loop, with sound on or off. It is subtitled, educational, informative and an accessible hight. It has been shown as a stand alone piece or as part of the Rendition exhibition where more of films I made as pilgrimages are also played