I am an Irish artist who draws attention to contemporary topics dealing with air, breath and atmospheric phenomena. Recent projects explore ways of listening to the earth and developing new ideas using the senses to relate to mycorrhizae and underground networks in the soil.\n \nI was fortunate to receive funding from the Ocean Memory Project in 2022. TO BECOME AN OCEAN is a project that seeks to sense the ocean in a region that is changing rapidly and which holds the memory of the climate in its ice and water between Arctic Greenland and Canada. I am working with Kate Stafford, the celebrated oceanographer, on this project to sense the ocean as a mythical place where some of the most important changes of our contemporary times are taking place. I participated on an expedition to explore the icebergs and the waters off west Greenland. The heart of this enquiry is an exploration of how the ocean holds the emotions of the landscape and the ice memory that is spilling into the waters of Davis Strait and Baffin Bay. Are they also flowing north to recall to the Arctic her ten thousand years of dust and oxygen and cold that have been memorialized in the Greenland Ice Cap? The project proposes to explore this changing acoustic and sensory environment through our senses. Greenland’s many stories are layered upon it and are held within the ice and water. Primarily we are exploring the atmospherically-driven winds and waves and the myriad sounds of ocean ice and animals with human-caused sounds like the noise from ships, barges, oil and gas extraction. \nRecently featured in The Guardian while traveling through the Greenland ocean. \n”}” data-sheets-userformat=”{“2″:769,”3”:{“1″:0},”11″:4,”12″:0}”>I stumbled upon the Ocean memory project by chance during the pandemic lockdown, but throughly enjoyed some of the engaging conversations that took place during the zoom events at the time. It’s an interesting context for potential collaborations and research-creation projects, so I’m looking forward to getting to know more people within the community!