Geraldine Leahy/ Solo Exhibition

This exhibition presents Geraldine Leahy’s exploration of the impermanence and volatility of fragile littoral environments under the escalating pressures of climate change. Focusing on coastlines reshaped by severe weather events, the works trace how debris—plastics, netting, rope, wire, corroding metals, toys, and remnants of eroding shoreline homes—becomes embedded within sand and tidal ecosystems. These incongruous objects entangle with seaweed and grasses until distinctions dissolve, revealing a landscape where human intervention is inseparable from natural process.

At the core of the exhibition is Leahy’s material methodology. Incorporating found shoreline debris directly into her surfaces through monoprinting, she allows physical traces of plastic and rope to form the foundational imprint of each work. Layered additions and erasures evoke the attrition, erosion, and instability of the coastal edge. Throughout the process, synthetic fragments mutate into strangely organic forms—suggestive of marine organisms, aerial estuaries, or spiraling coastal paths—disrupting perception and scale.

The exhibition positions the shoreline as a convergence zone where climate, industry, and ecology intersect. Through material transformation and visual ambiguity, Leahy foregrounds the entanglement of human systems and natural environments, inviting viewers to examine closely what appears before them and to confront their own role within a changing ecological reality.