Visiting Ummeryroe in August 2016

Video with sound, 09:16, 2024.

This work is a collaboration between father and daughter. Filmed in 2016 while figuring out her new art college camera, she gently observes his creative practice as they step around ancestral land in Co. Sligo. Edited in 2024 to accompany a retrospective exhibition of her late father’s work, this video frames time, deep memory, artistic throughlines, and love.

Installed at John O’Connor: A Retrospective, Basement Gallery, An Táin Arts Centre, Dundalk, August 1st - 31st, 2024. More information here.

This exhibition and catalogue was graciously supported and facilitated by The Basement Gallery at An Táin Arts Centre, Dundalk, which is supported by The Arts Council of Ireland, 2024.