SHELTER, 2025 | People become homeless for many reasons—job loss, rising living costs, broken systems, climate disasters, conflict, forced migration, or health challenges—but behind every circumstance is a human story of resilience, struggle, and the search for belonging. Shelter amplifies these experiences through the voices of those who have lived them. Created in partnership with the Talbot Interfaith Shelter (TIS) in Easton, MD, the film weaves together personal accounts of hardship and perseverance, revealing the systemic barriers contributing to homelessness and the transformative power of community-led compassion.
NEST, 2018 | The nest I found on the ground in my mother’s garden at home in the Netherlands was carried back to my studio in Ireland. I did not yet know what it might become. A decade later—two years after my mother’s death—I returned to it, drawn by its layered resonances, both personal and universal. The video unfolds slowly, its quiet rhythm masking the violence of dismantling a shelter. My hands calmly take the nest apart, twig by twig, until nothing remains but dust. Once a home is undone, it can never be restored to its original form.
BLINK, 2016, 2018, 2022, 2025 | Blink explores perception and the ability to see. Driven by the constant flow of information, each image disappears in a blink, replaced by a continuous stream of others. It is an ongoing project, first edited in 2016. As the world changes, I continue to gather images. A second edit followed in 2018, and in 2022, the visual vocabulary expanded to include refugees from Ukraine and Afghanistan. The ongoing displacement of people throughout history links humanity across all eras—and condemns those who turn away from those forced to leave their homes today.
MOMENTS, 2018 | Life can change forever in an instant, sometimes with devastating force. This series of animated line drawings depicts children caught in the violence of Syria’s war, their images traced directly from news footage. The act of drawing slows the moment, revealing both the immediacy of trauma and the enduring weight of loss. What we see are fragments—never the complete picture. In conversation with Syrian journalist Razan Ibraheem, I sought to find a way to bring these stories of suffering to a wider audience. Through drawing, a universal language, Syrian children are portrayed not only as victims of war but as children everywhere.
HOME, 2019 | Home is a film-poem created with poet Enda Wyley in collaboration with Dun Laoghaire Active Retirement Group members. Our conversations began with a question: What does home mean to you? Together we explored how this idea shifts with age—how home is both a physical space and a place of belonging. Over time, it is reshaped by our lives and memories. Perhaps, ultimately, we find home within our hearts and minds.
FUGUE, 2016 | Fugue was shot with a handheld camera as it moved through a dark forest, merging the perspectives of predator and prey into a single, unsettling view. The circular projection resembles a scope's crosshairs and a flashlight's shifting beam, placing the viewer within a zone of pursuit and vulnerability. This sense of ambiguity and disorientation captures the fragile experience of migrants in flight and the tense vigilance of those guarding borders.
SOMEWHERE ELSE, 2015 | Somewhere Else explores a restless space where the tension between home and displacement unfolds. Two cell-like structures, formed from thousands of lines and dots, mirror each other and gradually come together. Inside them, miniature figures and fragments of domestic life—chairs, lamps, utensils—appear and vanish. The shapes are never static: they fragment, collapse, and reconfigure in an ongoing transformation cycle. The work reflects on how the concept of home is never entirely stable. It is susceptible to disruption, influenced by memory, migration, and loss. In its constant flux, Somewhere Else becomes a meditation on the delicate balance between belonging and exile, stability and dissolution.
PIAFFE, 2011 | Piaffe explores the horse as a symbol of power and resilience. Its emotional force arises from delicate fragility: the horse appears as a slender ray of light, its strength contained, never fully released. The video examines physical tension and the restraint of bodily energy, depicting power continually pent-up against the shifting landscape of a geopolitical balance.