Veronica McGeehan’s practice constitutes an on-going development of work that encapsulates the variability of her sourced material. Whilst enveloping her modes of production within the needs and conditions that are constituted under the mental health banner, her focus now stems from a personal provocation of control and how the ‘Serial Killer’ is an intensified embodiment of this.

 

Drawing from notorious killers such as Jeffrey Dahmer and John Wayne Gacy, McGeehan surmises her work through specificity, allowing her to address the poetics of space and the manner in which the home becomes an extension of the individual, as well as a space in which control and dominion can reign.

 

This articulation of the demise of life is tied through the colour and form of the knitted spectacle. This avenue of materiality opens up the opportunity for numerable ‘kitsch’ methods to come into being; avenues of expression intrinsically liked to the home and the development of identity.

 

The work serves to be a physical and fiscal immersion, aligning spectator and artist, through the necessitation of McGeehan’s own body in the production. She hopes to create a forum whereby the taboo nature of the work can easily be discussed.

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