Shop the Uisce Salach Collection
Uisce Salach is the Irish for ‘dirty water’ and is concerned with the illegal dumping from the illicit fuel industry into our local rivers on the Irish border and highlights the environmental impact that the fuel economy has had on our rivers and the rest of our aquatic ecosystems.
Dríodar means ‘sediment’ in Irish and I worked on these smaller pieces whilst the bigger pieces were drying. These were the experimental wee bits, the wee ones, the ‘sediment’ of Uisce Salach.
For the past two years I have been working on a project in conjunction with Leeds University which focuses upon the study of Petro-Culture around the Illicit Fuel Economies to be found along the borders in Ireland and Mexico. I collected samples of contaminated water from the River Fane, Co. Louth where illegal fuel has continuously been dumped and looked at them under a microscope using a photomicroscopic lens and visually translated them into the body of work that is, Uisce Salach and Dríodar.