In June 2019 and 2020, I spent a week on Inishlacken, an uninhabted island off the coast of Connemara, Ireland, as part of the Inishlacken Project, an annual event curated by artist Rosie McGurran from Roundstone, the nearest village and our base for the week.  Rosie has organised the project annually for the last 18 years, and invited a great group of artists with a diverse range of practice from across Ireland and further afield.

 
This island has an intense, rugged beauty and, alongside many examples of ‘Seanbhallóg’ (ruined, roofless house) and the remains of old lanes, there is a huge array of stones with beautiful sculptural qualities.  In a series of drawings and paintings, portraits of individual stones, I tried to capture something of the essence of some of these granite formations – lonely glacial erratics, tumbled boulders and the huge flat slabs of stone along the shoreline from which the island derives its name (‘Inis lacáin’ – the island of flat stones).