‘The Museum of Interconnected Events/
Músaem na dTarlúintí Idirnasca/
El Museu d’Esdeveniments Interconnectats’, 2014

 County Mayo, Ireland, Girona, Catalunya and Northamptonshire, England.
Commissioned as part of ‘Changing Tracks’ by Mayo County Council, Northamptonshire County Council and Xarxa Transversal.  Recipient of funding from EU Culture Programme.

An Installation comprising 12 ‘event cabinets’ made in Finnish Birch Plywood, Mild Steel and Polycarbonate sheet, covered in a shell in 12 different materials, including turf, cork, charcoal, sheep wool, Old Irish Goats’ horns, Su gán (straw rope), seaweed, hand made ceramic fruits, shoe leather,  limestone, Ironstone and Aluminium railway springs.

Cabinets contain photographs, archival documents, artifacts, poems, maps, songs and personal testimonies compiled through a  process of intensive original research with individuals, community groups, museums and archives in all three countries.

“As part of 2014’s international art project ‘ChangingTracks’ I sought to present and juxtapose often unconsidered connections beyond conventional grand narratives of European History.  I created an installation, ‘The Museum of Interconnected Events’, that took the form of a small museum comprising a series of sculptural cabinets sited outdoors in County Mayo, Northamptonshire, England and Girona, Catalunya.  This temporary artwork developed through a series of residencies and extensive research, community engagement and collaboration with leading museums in each region, to become a single installation that existed simultaneously in three countries.

‘The Museum of Interconnected Events’ sought out local, distinctive and culturally specific experiences of common themes with the aim of exploring our common European cultural heritage.  This was achieved through substantial original research into themes such as: migration and exile, the relationship of minority languages to cultural identity and the industrialisation of transformation of raw materials and the lives of people who worked in these industries. I undertook original research to consider how the materials we use every day have hidden histories that reveal centuries of connections between people of different societies and the invisible cultural threads that connect these, subverting national boundaries.”