Affective Cartographies are site-responsive works that register and generate the spatialised emotions of place.

I am a Patheur*

*A term coined by Jürgen Hasse to describe a person who is strongly attuned to atmospheric emotions. The patheur does not merely observe or interpret, but suffers the force of atmospheres, embodying a passive openness to affective involvement. This figure exemplifies the perceptual ethos of pathic aesthetics (Griffero, 2014) 

Affective Cartography; Taree and Wingham, NSW, Australia, 2024, DRAW Space, NSW, (AUS)

Affective Cartography: Altona, Hamburg, ATMOSPHERES II, FRISE, (2025)Kunstler Innenhaus, Hamburg (GER);ATMOSPHERES II, 2024, DAS ESSZIMMER, Bonn, (GER)

Affective Cartographies: Manorhamilton, Leitrim, ATMOSPHERES I, 2023, Leitrim Sculpture Centre

Beyond Drawing II, curated by Arno Kramer and Ann Davoren. Artists; Felicity Clear, Marleen Kappe, Romy Muijrers, Kiera O’Toole, Marisa Rappard, Mary-Ruth Walsh Uillinn West Cork Arts Centre  (2022) ​Publication designed by Oonagh Young, featuring an essay by writer and curator Caoimhín Mac Giolla Léith

‘This Drawing was stopped after 4 hours’, 2021, charcoal and chalk on concrete pillars, Derry, Northern Ireland, Commissioned by CCA Derry-Londonderry. Walking Through Felt Drawing, 2021, CCA-Centre for Contemporary Arts Derry-Londonderry (NI)

Manorhamilton, Leitrim, 2021, Leitrim Sculpture Centre (IRE)

Kiera O’Toole, “Two A0 drawings, cut, weaved and reworked 2015-2020” graphite & charcoal on paper, 84.1 x 118.9 cm, International Drawing box, Leitrim Sculpture Centre, 2024, Curated by Diane Henshaw and Sean O'Reilly

Drawing Wonder, Project Anywhere, 2019, University of Melbourne and Parsons of New York (AUS/USA), Chalk, algae powder mixed with seawater.

Caves of Keash; The Way that I Felt, Caves of Keash, 2021 The Factory, Sligo (IRE). Photography by Tommy Weir

Beyond Drawing II Kiera O'Toole, Weaved Drawing, reworked drawings, 500cm x 500cm x 20cm approx, 2022, Uilllnn, West Cork Arts Centre, Curated by Arno Kramer and Ann Davoren, Photography by Ned Jedniezgoda

Quietus, Nazareth House, Sisters of Nazareth, Sligo (IRE), 2019, Non-permanent marker on frosted glass. Commissioned By Sligo Arts Service 

WARNING, 2019, Chalk on disused structure. Walk Art Porty, Edinburgh (SCO) Curated by Rosy Naylor.

Site Bearings, 2020, The Courthouse Art Gallery & Studios, Clare

Drawing from the Non-Place, 2017, Sligo, Chalk on disused sewage tank (IRE)

Remote Drawing, Sligo; Ox Mountains, Coolaney Riverwalk, Lugnadeffa 2016-2018