Video installation with additional photographic images
Unearthed was made in response to the continuing deaths in Northern Ireland. It was made from a personal standpoint. The work focuses on the events of Bloody Sunday and has a poetic and sombre approach to the terrible cost in terms of the deaths during the 30 years of The Troubles. This work was first commissioned by Projects UK and was the first ‘live’ performance by the artist using pre-recorded sound, slide imagery and live performance, with text by the artist and some lines from the poem, Casualty, with the kind permission of Seamus Heaney. Unearthed was shown as a commissioned installation in IMMA’s inaugural exhibition, Inheritance and transformation (1991).
