Documentation of work I exhibited as part of "Daisy Daisy" , a group exhibition of visual arts by 12 members of The Douglas Hyde Student Forum 2024, at The Complex Gallery in Dublin from 9th-11th August

One of the works I exhibited is a sculpture based on the form of a sika deer's antler. The Sika deer were imported to Ireland by an English landlord and have since become an invasive species. I carved the form out of mahogany, a material with connotations of taste and status, in reference to the ideals that resulted in the deer’s presence here.

I explored a similar set of ideas in the other piece I exhibited, which consisted of a screen displaying footage of earth being torn apart, which was obscured by a frame containing a sheet of paper. The work speaks to how the colonial act of uprooting something can be hidden by a screen of fictitiously harmonised aesthetics.