'The Borderlands'

After independence in 1922 and in particular, during the ‘Troubles’ the border was visible and instrumental in defining identities.

Since the Good Friday Agreement of 1998 travelling along and across this border there have been no physical expressions, no watchtowers, fences or walls, it is unseeable, it is a virtual psychological construct.

However, in the run-up to and after Brexit it has become discernable again and starts to evoke renewed questions about identity.

An overgrown Iron Age linear earthwork acts as a conceptual starting point for the inquiry.

This intriguing location, known locally as ‘The Black Pig’s Dyke’, is a 2000-year-old boundary that runs parallel to the present-day Irish / UK border, after Brexit, it now shadows another border that of the European Union and the UK.