In Sojourn Niamh McGuinne presents works from 2019 - 2024 spanning print, film, sculpture and installation which show the artist’s preoccupation with the body, shelte
r and space. Suggestive of ritual and transformation, here sojourn infers a short stay away from routine - a time to rest and replenish, to take stock and reevaluate, but most of all to make ready for the next phase. In Finds 2024, MIDDEN collective respond to and [re]interpret the finds from the 2014 dig at Rathfarnham Castle, providing a critique of the boujee lifestyle of Lord Adam Loftus’s decadent descendants and the Castle’s partygoers in the 17th century and their appetite for apathy.