Brian
O’Rourke

Attractor: noun, origin: Latin, Attrahere ‘to draw near’.

O’Rourke is primarily concerned with the rhythms of nature within the Irish countryside and the unique colloquialisms of its inhabitants.

This body of work presents that inherit curiosity through the language and iconography of night-fishing for seatrout on stretches of the River Feale in North Cork, West Limerick, and North Kerry.

Points of tension arising from this investigation relate to the deterioration of western seaboard rivers due to European legislation regarding trawler fleets off our coastal waters.

O’Rourke holds the belief that a country’s health should be measured by the quality and bio-diversity of its waterways and not its economic growth or its G.D.P.