Collected together in the Belfast Horizon’ series, perceived and physical boundaries in relation to landscape are significant as I explore ideas around identity and place, post Belfast Agreement (1998).

This is relevant both in terms of social divisions created within the topography of the city and the point from which a landscape is viewed - such as work developed from photographs taken from the edge of a hillside viewpoint on the outskirts of Belfast which was for many years restricted from public access and used for security surveillance.

The notion of ‘no-mans-land’ as a place of exclusion and shared access is considered in a series of photographic images and material interventions, recording closed ‘peace-line’ checkpoints and ‘interface’ roads in Belfast. Much of the work includes dense black soot which is used to obliterate areas of the image.

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