The Keeper

The Killarney Waste Tip has become a site and line of enquiry where I explore and document the shifting life of materials and our everyday habits of use and disposal. Weekly fieldwork research enabled chance as a key method for unearthing and collecting small objects and photographing the changes in waste that have occurred over the period of a week. Through photography, assemblage and installation, I create works that invite the audience to resonate with the feelings I experience at the tip site.

The Keeper is a large format photograph printed as a panelled work on 64 A4 sheets of paper. They are machine sewn together in a grid format, where my hand is evident in the process. It records one of the weekly visits I make to the Killarney Municipal Tip (the site). The process led work incorporates an heuristic approach and new materialist framework in which shared authorship with materials and an element of chance play key roles in the final outcome.