Incorporating research into the fields of psychical research, psychology, physiology, photography and optical viewing devices my practice explores ideas about the visible and the invisible. Using video and installation the works explore ideas about the presentation and credibility of an image and ideas about vision and perception, reality and illusion. The practice involves the investigation of particular individual case histories and myths.

The phenomena of materialisation mediums, table tilters, optograms, trance, clairvoyance and x-ray vision are explored. 'Dermo Optics', 2006 uses footage shot in the Dermo Optical Perception Laboratory of Madame Duplessis, Paris while 'Experiment M', 1999 is based on the case of the Belfast based table levitator Kathleen Goligher and her researcher Dr. William Jackson Crawford. The works provide a visual entry point into the history of parapsychology.

In July 2007 I worked with the Parapsychology Foundation New York as Visiting Scholar/Artist in Residence. I am currently researching and developing work about the Irish medium and founder of the Parapsychology Foundation, Eileen J Garrett. Work developed from my 2007 residency will be exhibited alongside archival photographs of mediums from the Harry Price Collection in 'Seeing is Believing' at the Photographers' Gallery, London (Nov '07 - Jan '08) and as a solo exhibition at Gimpel Fils Gallery, London in 2008. Following my residency with the Parapsychology Foundation I attended the 2007 Parapsychological Association Convention in Halifax, Nova Scotia, where I met many leading researchers including Stanley Krippner, Rex Stanford, Bill Roll and Erlendur Haroldsson.

Perceptual phenomena, paranormal activity and eyeless sight are amongst the phenomena examined. ‘Headbox’ 2004 is an installation of objects and video. The works present images based on the case of Rosa Kuleshova, a young Russian woman, whose remarkable ability to read with her fingertips made her the subject of intense scientific observation in Russia in the 1960s. This scientific research has been reinterpreted though a series of videos. ‘Headbox’ reflects and explores my interest in the contraptions and paraphernalia employed by the scientists during their experiments.

In the 1999 work ‘Faint’, hysteria was made visible through the repetitive action of the faint. ‘Experiment M’, a 1999 installation explored the relationship between a psychical medium and her researcher, and suggested that the authentic research was muddied by another relationship.

An important process within the work has been that of reconstruction and appropriation and this has been used as a device to represent the image and give it credibility. ‘Kuda Bux’, 2003, used reconstruction to create an installation housing a video work presenting images based on the eyeless sight demonstrations of the New York mystic Kuda Bux. ‘Kuda Bux’ was awarded the Perspective 2003 Award at Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast by Enrique Juncosa, director IMMA, Dublin. A 1998 work ‘The Last Person’, selected for the Glen Dimplex Artists Award, Irish Museum of Modern Art, 1999 explored the genre of spirit photography and notions of fraud and authenticity. ‘The Last Person’ was based on the case of Helen Duncan who in 1944 was the last person to be tried and prosecuted under the British Witchcraft Act of 1735. Victorian moving image devices such as the zoetrope were presented in ‘45rpm’, 2000. Scientific theories such as the myth of the optogram were presented in ‘After Image’, 2002; delving into the bizarre and the extraordinary this work explored the myth that the last image seen before death is retained on the retina of the eye.