PIGSY is an artist whose practice is rooted in mark-making as a primary act, shaped in part by a background in architecture. The work operates between structure and collapse — where systems of order are built, disrupted, and reworked through a sustained engagement with the surface.

There is a conscious attempt to unlearn inherited ways of seeing and making. The process resists refinement in favour of a more direct, instinctive approach — a regression toward a raw and unfiltered state where gesture, material, and thought align without mediation.

The work is the explanation.

The paintings develop through accumulation and erasure. Marks are layered, interrupted, overwritten, and returned to, creating compositions that hold tension between control and instinct. Language, symbols, and fragments of form appear and dissolve, leaving traces that resist fixed meaning.

Working in mixed media, PIGSY builds dense, active surfaces where drawing and painting collapse into one another. The work moves between abstraction and figuration, not as categories but as shifting states — unstable, immediate, and unresolved.

His work is grounded in a sustained studio practice, developed alongside residencies and exhibitions in Ireland and internationally.