LORNA TIERNAN

 I am a visual artist practicing photography, painting, installation, and performance. I research the interrelation between the image, the body, and space, considering these as all parts of one living archive. Working like an archaeologist, I return to abandoned and domestic spaces that often have direct connections with my family, excavating fragments of memory, identity, and presence that still hold onto the physical world.

 I am particularly interested in derelict domestic spaces, often related to my family, that hold physical and emotional archives. In these environments, the body becomes both subject and witness. My investigations are informed in part by Francesca Woodman and her studies of derelict interiors, where light, texture, and silence hold emotional histories. In my work the body becomes subject and witness that blurs into the architecture. Existing between visibility and disappearance. Repetition, layering, and re-inhabitation record fleeting encounters between the body and its environment, documenting presence and mapping absence.

My practice primarily revolves around collaboration and installation. Both are the core of presenting work as an immersive experience. Through medium, I invite viewers to slow down and linger to consider what remains: how bodies, images, and spaces quietly archive one another over time.