Affective Cartographies:

Site-responsive works that register and generate the spatialised feelings of place.

I am a patheur — a term coined by geographer Jürgen Hasse to describe a person who is acutely attuned to atmospheric emotions. The patheur does not observe or interpret but endures the force of atmospheres, embodying a receptive openness to affective involvement (Griffero, 2014).

Affective Cartography; Taree and Wingham, NSW, Australia, 7 mins 10 secs, 2024, DRAW Space, NSW, (AUS). Curated by Melinda Hunt. Exhibiting Artists; Alexandra Crosby, Ilaria Vanni, Sarah Jane Jones and Holly O’Neil, Melinda Hunt, Luca Idrobo, Linda Knight, Kiera O’Toole, Mia Salsjö

Affective Cartography: Altona, Hamburg, ATMOSPHERES II, FRISE, (2025)Kunstler Innenhaus, Hamburg (GER); ATMOSPHERES II, 2024, DAS ESSZIMMER, Bonn, (GER). Zeitgeist Irland 24 @cultureireland and the Embassy of Ireland in Germany @irlembberlin

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, Photography by Ned Jedniezgod

‘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)

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.

LEER: Landscape, Environment, Ecology, Research: Manorhamilton, Leitrim, 2021, Leitrim Sculpture Centre

Caves of Keash; The Way that I Felt, 2021, The Factory, Sligo (IRE). Photography by Tommy Weir . The Way that I Felt, Caves of Keash, 2021 The Factory, Sligo. Exhibiting Artists:Kiera O’Toole, Tommy Weir, Ruth Le Gear, Christine Mackey, Kate Oram and Sarah Ellen Lundy; along with writer, Julianna Holland and Dr Marion Dowd, archaeologist and leading cave expert.

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. Exhibiting Artist: Exhibiting Artists: Kiera O’Toole, Felicity Clear, Melissa O’Faherty, Kevin Killen, Mary-Ruth Walsh and Racheal Agnew.