Frances Hegarty & Co. - Glanmire, Ireland

The work of Frances Hegarty includes drawing, film and video, audio and live action, and public art. Her approach is simultaneously personal and issue-led, attesting to the struggle to have an aesthetically-engaged life without the loss of political consciousness. Recurrent motifs in the work include: the female figure, especially in landscape; the bodily gesture, in time; the "hand-made" mark, between drawing and writing; the physical features of body and land. These motifs point to deeper concerns, such as: "land" and "self" as a cultural and political constructs; language and aesthetics as vectors of both tradition and transgression, especially in the politics of cultural and personal agency.