Catriona Leahy is a visual artist based in Dublin and Kildare. Working variously across experimental analogue photography, print, sculpture and digital media, her work explores deep and near time environmental histories as they resurface and reorganise themselves, anachronistically, in our present. Foregrounding a method of the anachronic over the chronologic, she draws attention to the slow and often latent violence inflicted on the landscape and the dramatic reassembling of our earth’s critical zone as a result of extractive processes.

As landscapes are ‘re-formed’, both by extraction and conservation efforts, they undergo a process that also re-assembles and reconfigures our material and immaterial relationships between past, present and future, reminding us that the landscape, and our relationship to it, is always in process; a moving, emerging, ongoing event. Through this lens, her ongoing research project Metabolic Rift (2020 – present) explores the degraded peatlands in the Midlands of Ireland as a result of industrial extraction.

She recently completed a residency at SIM Association of Icelandic Artists in Reykjavik researching the Icelandic landscape as a mirror to Ireland’s deep time geological history. Her work is included in numerous private and public collections including the Arts Council of Ireland and OPW collections. She currently works out of her studio in Fire Station Artist Studios, Dublin as the Day Studio Resident Awardee 2024/25.