My practice explores the material poetics of survival and repair — connecting feminist histories, embodied memory, and the politics of care
Below, Náire Orthu, 2017. Ursula Halpin. Kiln Formed pate-de-verre bullseye glass, nylon and steel, 3500h x 1500w x 1500d. Installation. Photo Lara Merrington. JamFactory Seppeltsfield.
“The various means of purifying the abject—the various catharses—make up the history of religions and end up with that catharsis par excellence called art, both literature and painting.”
— Julia Kristeva, Powers of Horror
Studio
My studio practice is a space of making and unmaking — where the domestic, the abject, and the sacred converge through acts of repair. Each work emerges from repetition and rupture, reflecting on what we inherit, what we cast off, and what we dare to mend.
Ursula Halpin, Feicim samhail anchumtha sa ghloine dorcha, (I see though the glass, darkly), install view, 2 (below), 2016, photo by Grant Hancock
