maureen jordan

Using found objects and recycled materials, I respond to specific sites both indoors and out. When combined with materials considered to have more value or impact, such as stained glass or neon, the contrast highlights tensions between the sacred and banal, discarded or salvaged. 

Born and raised in Belfast, the early life-experience is inextricable from the practice. 

“…you aren’t so much trying to describe it as trying to locate it….. like putting your hand into a nest and finding something beginning to hatch out in your head”                                                                                                       

Seamus Heaney

Responding to a particular site, this inner ‘biography’ connects like a plug into a socket creates energy. The old rag and bone shop of the heart is a rich source of material.