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- Mya Moore
Mya
Moore
Sodacakes
Sodacakes is a series of sixteen water colour on paper works. My work is based on ideas around family, time, identity and memory. My work explores the intersection between painting and photography. Drawing imagery from my own family photo albums, personal relics and miscellaneous mementos.
The title Sodacakes comes from the nickname given to people from Thomondgate. I titled it this as my family are from there. Apparently in the days of the tolls on Thomond bridge to get into town, the people in Thomondgate had little money and would bake sodacakes to offer them instead of the toll.
This series is a collection of different images of my family that I have taken from my family photo albums. The use of cropping and repetition aims to offer the idea of uncertainty around memory. The installation of the series is presented in a way that allows the audience to read it like a story.
Trace
This series draws from the visual language of family photo albums, intimate, cropped, often imperfect records of affection and proximity. The title “Trace” references the feeling of presence and absence. By isolating moments of touch between hands, I reference the way photographs freeze gestures that are both deeply personal and universally familiar. These fragments suggest relationships without fully revealing them, much like the selective nature of memory or the frames in an old album. Rendered with quiet restraint, the paintings explore how physical contact becomes a vessel for emotional history. How what is held, touched, or nearly touched speaks to connection, care, and the silent choreography of familial bonds. In stripping away context, the work lingers on what is no longer there, asking the viewer to feel the weight of what’s missing. Through this visual quiet, the paintings speak to the intimacy of touch, and the emotional residue it leaves behind.
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