Invasion Stories
Myfanwy Frost-Jones
Self-Published
English
Hardcover
52 pages
255 x 255 mm
2o22
ISBN Not Available
Invasion Stories combines text and photography to investigate the stories of invasion, colonisation, land and labour discovered during lockdown explorations of the artist’s local Kerry countryside — a contested space, once a farmed property of the absent English landlord — now forgotten and overgrown, having not officially changed hands since Famine times. Modern day aquaculture is now a feature here as a small oyster farm is set up on the coastline and Pacific oysters grip the shore.
(source: https://www.centreculturelirlandais.com/en/whats-on/artist-in-residence/myfanwy-frost-jones)
About the Artist
A Fine Art graduate and the recipient of a number of awards for Visual Art, Myfanwy Frost-Jones is passionate about environmental sustainability, biodiversity, food security and local food networks. Drawing on personal experiences as an artist and oyster farmer based in the West of Ireland, her work examines the complicated relationships between land, landscape and ecology in a rural space by layering the conflicting histories of colonialism and invasion with current issues of biodiversity and coastal erosion.
Embracing the sublime, my work investigates the allure of the rural landscape whilst acknowledging the dark histories of the past. Creating immersive experiences, linking the many pasts with the present within the landscape, gives insight into the realities and expectations of land and sustainability in the Irish rural environment.
(source: https://www.myfanwyfrost-jones.com/)
