Galway's Fisheries Tower on th emouth of the River Corrib was used for drift net fishing upto the 1970s and also served as a lookout for fish stocks on the river. Now a museum the space lends a poignant context for this series of new paintings and photographs. Many of the images are of the annual excessive growth of algae and the detritus found in the rivers and lakelands of hte west of Ireland.
Deirdre O'Mahony was born in Limerick and studied at the RTC Galway, St Martins School of Art, (BA) and the Crawford College (MA),Cork . She is researching her MPhil/PhD through practice at the Universtiy of Brighton titled The trouble with beauty; aesthetics, ecology and the legacy of the picturesque in relation to the contemporary western Irsh landscape.