Introducing this year’s artists nominated by PhotoIreland to the Creative Europe FUTURES Platform. Aside from the five artists announced this year, PhotoIreland has put forward 20 artists in previous years, selected through direct invitation and an open call. Find out more at futures-photography.com Pauline Rowan explores sanctuary, as well as home, through landscapes, settlements and our underpinned relationships with belonging and abandonment. With a background in Fine Art and Film, her predominately lens based works incorporate documentary as well as collaborative and performative elements. Rowan is interested in layers of history in place, family and society, systems of defensive and offensive tactics used upon land, home and ritual. She received a distinction for her MFA in Photography from Ulster University in 2019. Since graduating Rowan has been invited by Paul Seawright and Peter Richards to exhibit in ‘Dissolving Histories – New Narratives’, Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast. Rowan was awarded an Arts Council of Ireland Bursary in both 2020 and 2021. Through the stories and histories of Irish women, artist Pauline Rowan collaborates with a small community of people as they continue to care for a convent and garden site marked for demolition. ‘Under a Vaulted Sky’ uses photography, the artist’s own performative response, and collage work to talk about land control and concepts of home and belonging. The work is being created, and presents itself, at a point in Irish history when the country is separating itself from Catholicism and re-negotiating its identity. Pauline is a selected artist for PhotoIreland's talent programme New Irish Works in 2022. . . . #PhotoIreland #Ireland #IrishCulture #IrishArtists #IrishPhotography #ContemporaryPhotography #ContemporaryArt #ContemporaryIreland #FuturesPhotography