LORNA TIERNAN

My research started with family photographs, especially the people who appear at the edges of images, and how those glimpses shaped my understanding of memory, lineage, and identity. This curiosity led me to my grandparents’ abandoned home, which became more than just a spaceit became a living archive full of memory, decay, and traces of the past. Inspired by Francesca Woodman, I began using my own body in the space, exploring how partial visibility, blurring, and movement could make presence and absence feel intertwined. Through site visits, conversations, sketches, and photographs, I developed a practice that moves across photography, drawing, installation, and performance, using these tools to explore how the body, memory, and architecture intersect to create a space that feels alive rather than frozen in time.