Julie Corcoran Artist Statement

(this is a living document that grows and evolves as I do)

My practice explores the human condition through use of photography and printmaking. As a woman living in rural Ireland I explore themes that affect me; identity, ritual, and spiritual connection to place. I am particularly drawn to liminal spaces — both physical and emotional — where transformation, reflection, and quiet resistance take root.

My foundation is in digital photography and archival printmaking, but recent years have seen a deliberate shift in my approach. I have begun to question the environmental and ethical impact of image-making, and to move towards slower, more sustainable processes that invites collaboration with the natural world.

My recent exhibition, It Matters, focuses on the healing site of Brigid’s Well in Faughart, Co. Louth, using camera and camera-less techniques and mediums like printing on kombucha scoby. I now consider my work an act of both making and unmaking — unlearning harmful habits and opening space for new, generous ways of creating.

Influenced by artists such as Rita Duffy, Alice Maher, Jesse Presley Jones, Amanda Coogan and Aideen Barry I seek to create work that holds space for uncertainty and dialogue. Whether through large-scale cyanotypes, silk prints, or sculpture, I aim to honour the process as much as the outcome — to reflect rather than extract, and to explore what it means to make art in ethical conversation with our environment.