Kate McElroy is an artist whose practice spans across media, presenting a dynamic constellation of work including expanded photography, moving image, sound, spoken word and sculptural installation. The work questions the altering environment and our place within it.

This residency and exhibition will coincide with Ireland’s Overshoot Day, a day that marks when the Earth’s biological resources – if everyone lived as we do in Ireland – would be exhausted for the year. This day shows the urgency of why we need to reorient our ways of relating to the environment.

McElroy facilitates a reading group in Cork and during her residency, she will run a weekly reading group with Sample-Studios’ members to explore texts that influenced the work.