My current work deals with the notion of the “Uncanny”. This work has been informed by recent diagnosis of Obsessive Compulsive Disorder . My new work is sited in investigations into Hysterical behavior and the uncanny repetitive gesture or Tourette. With a play on perspective I am to create films and performances based on my investigations into optical illusions, endurance performance and the challenges presented to us in our everyday reality. My film and animation works reference the subverted female characters in texts from Irish literary figures such as Bram Stoker and Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu aligned with theories of philosophers who are preoccupied with the notion of unnatural human behavior, playing with the blur between what is imagined and what is perceived to be; “the contemporary Gothic”. I explore these issues in a playful manner often using humour to entice the viewer. My work oscillates between the intensely personal to the quotidian, often simultaneously, through use of the domestic re-arranged in an uncanny fashion. Through playful manipulation of materials a productive dialogue emerges between object as body. These comments are a tool in expressing human behaviour in the strange area between amusement and discomfort; creating balance and tension. My most recent investigation has explored the notion of Hysteria, examining the theories of Freud and Charcot in relation to this. I am interested in de Selby and Foucault’s theory of the Heteratopic space playing with the idea of the space that is “ in-between”, hybridising between the real and the imagined. My preoccupation with literature, scientific thought, engineering inventions and philosophy from the turn of the last century is directly led me to search for the new figure of gothic subversion in the contemporary Diaspora. For me the contemporary gothic can be seen in everyday of Celtic Tiger Ireland. In the housing estates and shopping centers of stepford zombieness and now in the grip of hysterical post boom, recession Ireland. This interest in the Gothic of the now has provoked my interest into the evolution of the uncanny in a futuristic environment. More recently my work is concerned with the mutation of the Irish housewife into half cleaning and mechanical device and half human. Playing with the Mary Shelly, idea of the domestic monster, one we have created ourselves with our obsessive behavior and the altering of our DNA through the abuse of cleaning chemicals. My practice has evolved into an eccletic mix of media, film, performance, photography, music, sound art, Textiles, drawings, and animation.