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I am a research-based fine artist and teacher, who is passionate about introducing students to the power of creating socially engaged art, through collaborative, project-based learning. I believe in a student-centred approach to teaching, with an emphasis on problem-solving and critical thinking. My work explores the relationship between colonialism, patriarchal structures, and environmental degradation. Film photography is paired with research to discuss the containment of the sexualised female body within the Irish landscape. By considering landscape as a visual construct fabricated by man, I suggest that both nature and woman are reduced to objects of observation. Ultimately my work theorises that the unseeing masculine gaze one looks at the landscape through acts as a catalyst for environmental decline.