Turning Point marks the final stage of a project begun in 2008 through collaboration with Clare Women’s Network and supported by the Create, Phase I - Artist in the Community Scheme. My decision to work with an ancient Greek myth for this cycle of images, came from a need to find distance and preserve anonymity, to offer a cohesion, or potential for meaning in events that so often seem to have none. It evolved in response to answers to the question, “What was the turning point for you?”.  The choice of the story of Demeter and Persephone was inspired by real stories and accounts gathered through individual interviews and research into gender-based violence conducted over a two-year period. The work presented here consists of staged images or re-enactments exploring the regenerative or redemptive potential of the mother-daughter relationship, central to this myth, while also reintroducing it’s psychological complexity as a means to navigate contemporary experience. The series will be shown for the first time at the RHA Ashford Gallery, Dublin in Nov-Dec 2011.

Turning Point II

RHA Ashford

Prism Photography Magazine Jan-Feb 2012