As a visual artist my current research project Endless Home is designed to formulate and design alternative working models that seek to infiltrate the community arena. Focusing on the effects of ‘Ghost Estates’ scattered around Ireland as a result of the bursting of the property bubble the project is devised to allow for micro-interventions to take place and create visual, vibrant entrances into areas which are highly regulated. I’m interested in the dereliction embodied in these sites, and its effect on the people who live in or near them. My work attempts to tentatively imagine ways of breaking out of this stasis and stimulate areas for new public spaces or remodel existing ones.

Gordan Matta Clark described his art practice as “unbuilding”, creating an alternative way of seeing and experiencing property. Opportunities for new forms of creative production, collaboration and social involvement will emerge throughout this research project; including interviews, film, photography, using visual tools i.e. traditional and contemporary drawing approaches, painting, also materials found on these estates, such as billboards or storage units. These research processes, collaborations and interventions will be apparent in the final manifestation of the art work.