The nucleus of my work is drawing; they use it as a means to clarify ideas, as a form of research, as an outcome and a framework by which to interpret my diverse research interests.

In particular, I am concerned with the aesthetics and structures of comic books, their use as a narrative and an anti-narrative form and their position as a medium that exists between yet distinct from poetry, art, prose and illustration. Comics have the potential to be a sort of Lingua Franca- a universal form of communication. The juxtaposition of words and images offers a multiplicity of meanings and narratives. I am interested in the spaces between these meanings, and in manipulating and subverting them.

My work has consistently explored themes of personal and social history- particularly Irish colonial history- and the unreliability and manipulation of narratives in such histories. This manipulation of the past and present- the blurring of the lines between objective and subjective truths- becomes even more apparent when text and image are set in opposition.