I have an upcoming exhibition in December 2023 in Rua Red. More details to be announced later in the year
Author: rebecca
Untitled Film
A short film looking at liminal spaces and lines
Blanket Statement
“Blanket Statement” is a work commissioned by IMMA for the Earth Rising Eco Festival October 2022.
“Blanket Statement” is a functional and interactive picnic blanket. I made it with a combination of branded, identifiable plastics and anonymous waste found at a domestic level over the course of 3 months.
Site specific to Kilmainham, “Blanket Statement” is a visual representation of 21st century material. Between Kilmainham and Christchurch, there is a high density of middens, or waste disposal sites from viking and middle aged Ireland. The organic material in these sites broke down over time and became part of the reason why Dublin grew and developed the way it did. Plastics will not breakdown and create a rich soil the way that organic materials can, instead it poses the question ” What do we do with all this plastic?”
This piece is made from plastics that are not typically recycled, soft and single use plastics. Some of these materials are “Wishful Recycling” or materials that while technically recyclable, are not recycled after the sorting process. This can be for a number of reasons including being a composite of many types of plastic, being a dark or unusual colour or because in the end it is not economically viable.
I took these materials and cut them into strips so they can become a yarn like material. I crocheted this yarn into squares and rectangles. Crochet cannot be replicated by machines, so all crochet is made with human hands. There are 30 panels of crocheted plastic in “Blanket Statement”. 15 of these panels are double, or treble crochet stitches, 15 of these panels are made with a granny square motif. Granny Squares are a very traditional and familiar crochet motif, you will have seen them before in handmade baby blankets and the fashion from the 70’s.
By investing the time and labour required to make the panels of plastic crochet, I’ve changed the value of the plastic waste. Given a new form and purpose, the durability, flexibility and weather resistance of the plastic is embraced.
IMMA Earth Rising
I have been commissioned by IMMA to create an interactive installation for part of the Earth Rising Eco Art Festival. The event is on from Friday the 21st to Sunday the 23rd of October. Tickets are free, and available the IMMA website.
For this piece I worked with various types of found plastics, and really ended up dwelling on the question of:
“What do we do with the Plastics that will continue to exist?”
https://imma.ie/whats-on/earth-rising/
Crúinniú na nÓg Workshop
As part of Crúinniú na nÓg on June 11th, I ran a workshop in Gorey Library for Children aged 9-12. Each child made their own character. Then in groups, they wrote a short story and designed a background for their puppets. I introduced the basics of stop motion animation and frame rate. We shot the animation and each child posed their own characters.
Covid Videos
Building from the previous research module, in the final module of the year I made 3 short videos. Once again this very much looks and processes the COVID times that we were starting to emerge from.
As part of this module I made another soft crocheted sculpture.
Covid Family Portrait
This is part of a body of work I’ve been developing over the last few months. It is a humourous look at some aspects of living alongside covid over the last two years.
Each Covid Creature is crocheted stuffed with recycled materials.
Covid Family Portrait (Video)
Research Module 2
In this module I start using crochet and textiles to make soft sculptures and graphs. This is the start of a project that looks and deals with COVID 19 very directly.
This is the first self directed modules of the course.
The crochet Blanket shows a graph of the COVID 19 vaccine uptake rate in Ireland. The yellow creatures are personifications of the many variants of COVID 19.
Printmaking Module
There were two explorations in printmaking for me- the first was an overlap between print and video. This looked at the idea of making, and unmaking. It’s also the first use of video/animation in a fine art context during these studies.
The second exploration develops the embossing I use in the the first part of the module and incorporates colour.
Exponential Growths
Bio 2022
Rebecca is an Artist from the North West of Ireland. She has a varied background ranging from Animation, Website Design and content development, to building scripts and 3D assets for machine learning and research projects.
In 2021 she moved towards developing her fine art practice. Since then her work has be exhibited with DCCI and she has been commissioned by IMMA to make an interactive installation for the Earth Rising Eco Festival in October 2022.
Rebecca likes to use humor, chronological order and observations in her work. She frequently borrows from her technical background, and uses many disciplines in her practice including video, textiles and drawing.
She’s studying Fine Art (H.Dip) in the National College of Art and Design Ireland (2022). If you have any questions or queries, you can contact her at rebecca.tighe@gmail.com
Crochet Mitten
Painting Module
For this module I started with the some of the images I had gathered in the photography module.
Digital Cameras do not create a record of light present at a time, but rather a set of instructions to recreate what was detected by the digital sensor as pixels for a screen. With the opening and closing of the Digital Image, it changes.
Similarly when remembering a memory, the Memory is not the recollection of the time itself, but rather the last time you recalled the the Memory. In each recollection it changes.
This body of work exists as a record of intersecting thoughts, the paintings build from this relationship between digital imaging, and memory. An overlap between a physical place, and psychological one.
Mask Cityscape
Plaster Sketchbook Seaside
Plaster Sketchbook
Photography Module
I’m not always interested in working with photography. I have plenty of experience working with 35mm film and digital imaging. For this module I looked at long exposures and more abstract photography.
Sculpture Module
In this module I learned how to work with pouring plaster and clay molds. This for me culminated as an exploration of the unseen space between the face an the mask.
The Artist as a Seagull (eating pizza)
Through Looking Glasses
This painting was exhibited at Birr Vintage festival as part of the outdoor exhibition between 13.08.21 to 21.08.21
DCCI Collar Exhibition
I worked on this crochet collar for the DCCI Collar Exhibition.
It’s crocheted from some found cotton and polyester yarn and the beads were from some old costume jewellery. It borrows from stitches and techniques used by the young women of Ireland who crocheted lace to provide for their families during the 1800’s.
Three Horses at Blue Rock
Professional Projects 2020-21
Essential Journeys
This Photo was published in March 2021 as part of the 2 edition of the “2 Meter Review” poetry and photography journal.
Personal Work 2020-21
Procreate Landscapes
Digital Paintings in Procreate
The new commute
Rosslare Beach Trip
Pet Portraits
Acrylic Painting
Livingroom View 2
New Years Eve
Places
Restricted Pallet exercises
Faces

Life Death and Horses
2 Millimetres
“2 Millimetres” was published in the Poetry Ireland 2 Metre review on June 17th 2020.
Contact me at rebecca.tighe@gmail.com if you would like to buy postcard sized print of this image!
Photography Review
I’m really excited to have a photo published in 2 Meter Review coming out on June 17th.
The photo included is “2 Millimetres” from a series of photos taken around mid March during the most restrictive phase of the lockdown.
The Eye of Storm Brendan
Rocket Science Banner
Autumnal Cat
Flower Illustration
Organic Props