LEER- Landscape, Environment, Ecology, Research, 2021, Leitrim Sculpture Centre, Leitrim.
Exhibiting Research Artists: Kiera O’Toole, Catriona Leahy, Marie Farrington, Padraig Cunningham & Siobhan McGibbon
Site responsive drawing. Charcoal on handball alley wall, Manorhamilton, Leitrim, 2021O’Toole is an independent artist and practice-based researcher examining how humans experience, and form relationships with, the environment and the everyday. Through her focus on ‘pathic aesthetics’ O’Toole’s site-responsive drawing practice engages the atmospheric, material, temporal and corporeal aspects of sites in developing the work. These pathic responses in all their complexity: diversity, directness, universality and presentness; are evidence of how humans are both subject to, and affected by, the world that surrounds them. By paying close attention to the atmospheres, resonances and material affects immanent to diverse environments O’Toole hopes to create a 'Holding Space' for something intermediate, something in and between us, a space where we can pay attention to the here and now which is always and already happening.