‘Sky Walkers,’ 2024 is a collection of poetic meditations about a broad area across the Dublin Mountains which overlooks Dublin City and Dublin Bay in Ireland. The work was commissioned in 2024 by Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council (Ireland) in partnership with Coillte (organisation that manages state-owned forests) and Dublin Mountains Partnership. ‘Sky Walkers’ is six downloadable or streamable audio artworks (with the written words simply visualised) via Vimeo, or from the artist’s or the commissioner’s websites.

The spoken-word vignettes, all less than ten minutes duration, conjure mysterious and otherworldly scenes in the landscape. The specific sites in which each piece is set is marked on a map available online, walkers encouraged to find and explore. People can listen anywhere or walkers can visit the sites during their own time and listen in situ to the pieces on their own devices. In the audio artworks, surreal scenes are created with subtle allusions to history, myth, science and futurism; unclear as to what comes from memory, the imaginary or perhaps a parallel world. Strange and sometimes absurd, numinous events occur in the mountains for the companions and strangers who meet along the way. The works use several styles, for example poetry with classical meter, prose poetry and long-form, vivid depiction, and are delivered simply by human voice in electronic, ambient soundscapes.

Commissioned in 2024 by Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council (Ireland) as part of their ‘Nature and Place’ initiative. Three artists were chosen to observe, explore, and respond to six public forests in the east of the Dublin mountains and create individual projects. The projects were to be temporary and immaterial in nature, outside of the standard gallery context. The six forests are Barnaslingan, Carrickgollogan, Tiknock, Tibradden, Ballyedmonduff and Kilmashogue; all in the overlooking mountains in Dublin’s south east.