Feá McCoy
Return To Place
My work explores the relationship between memory, place and grief. Attempting to connect to my late father, I aim to construct a knowing of him, through the objects and places he once knew.
I attempt to decode the language of these objects and places, constructing a narrative that reflects my understanding of a person who I never met. Returning to these places we knew apart, to bridge the gap of absence that exists between us.
Through the projection of slides, I attempt to map the landscape of my grief and trust where it leads me. Navigating the past through archival family material, trying to recollect something that never occurred.
I can attempt to reinsert myself into the family life we could have had but knowing that it could only ever be a nearness of him.
Biography
Instagram: @mccoyfea
Email: fea.mccoy@gmail.com
Phone: 085-114-5517
Feá McCoy is a Limerick-based visual artist, currently studying Fine Art Photography and Moving Image at Limerick School of Art and Design.
Focusing primarily on still photography, with some elements of the moving image. Her primary medium is analogue photography, with a particular focus on slide film and the performance of projection.
Previous Exhibitions
March - April, 2024 - Photography and Moving Image and Print Contemporary Practice, Artists' Books Exhibition, Clare Street Campus, Limerick School of Art and Design, Technological University of the Shannon: Midlands Midwest, Limerick, Ireland, Group Exhibition
December, 2023 - Dublin Art Book Fair 2023: Polyphonic, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin, Ireland, Group Exhibition
April, 2023 - A Furtherance of Their Own Desires, Sailor’s Home, Limerick, Ireland, Curated by Sara Dowling, Group Exhibition
October, 2022 - Sculpting in Time, Clare Street Campus, Limerick School of Art and Design, Technological University of the Shannon: Midlands Midwest, Limerick, Ireland, Group Exhibition
August, 2022 – Inhibitioned, Experimental and analogue photography exhibition, Féile Na Gréine 2022, Spacecraft Studios, Limerick, Group Exhibition
March, 2022 - Still Moving, Clare Street Campus, Limerick School of Art and Design, Technological University of the Shannon: Midlands Midwest, Limerick, Ireland, Group Exhibition
March, 2022 - Still Moving, George’s Quay Campus, Limerick School of Art and Design, Technological University of the Shannon: Midlands Midwest, Limerick, Ireland, Group Exhibition