Roisin received The Cork Textiles Network Helen Stringer Memorial Award for her work and now she has been given the opportunity to exhibit in a solo exhibition opening today in MTU.

 ‘Forget Me Knot’ 
Wednesday the 21st Feb at 1pm
The James Barry Exhibition Centre,
as part of the MTU Registar’s Prize 2023.
The show will run until the 13th of March 2024 and is welcome to all!

Roisin’s work presents a series of vessels that act as a metaphor for grief. Roisin views a vessel as an empty space that suggests the absence of a memory, person, object or feeling. Roisin’s practice explores the dichotomy between comfort and discomfort and confronts the viewer in a direct way.

Roisin’s material led process utilises marks, folds, tears and shapes within clothing to reveal the traces of a person. She believe that we become attached to a person’s clothing after they pass and that such material has the capacity to reveal a shape, tell a story and retain a memory of a life.

The use of soft materials and processes like crochet and knitting are juxtaposed with hard materials like chains, poles, wire and welded metal.

Long layers of printed matter reveal unravelling sculptural forms which evoke knots, and reflect a memory or time lapse within my practice.