'Forget Me Not’, remembers thirteen Headford girls aged 15-19 who left Ireland for Australia under the Orphan Emigration Scheme. Filmed in the Headford area and featuring local teenagers, this film humanises the historical workhouse passenger lists.

Focusing on empathy to communicate how brave theses young girls were to leave their homeland and escape the workhouses and the devastation of the Great Famine in Ireland, ’Forget Me Not’ is a contemporary poetic response to these historic events by visual artist Jojo Hynes.

The bonnets in the film were created from a callout by Headford Lace Project in response to a project by artist Christina Henri from Tasmania. This film was commissioned by Headford Lace Project through Culture Night funding from Galway County Council.

This film was video mapped on to The Anglers Rest in Headford on Culture Night 2019. Screened as part of The Headford Lace Project’s ‘Lace Notes and Other Stories’ Concert.

The film was also selected to be shown at The Loop a large-scale outdoor public screen located Hobart, Tasmania, Australia managed by the City of Hobart's Public Art team.

installation: 3 min 23sec video projection, colour, sound

Female Explorer journeys to the centre of Seductive glitter and Crystal caves with Health risks.

Inspired by the character of Carla Göteborg in the 1959 film Journey to the Centre of the Earth, the real Cave of the Crystals and the toxic yet seductive nature of the nail varnish and beauty industry.

London 2018

installation: video projection, colour, sound & sculptures

The dialogue in the soundtrack purposely omits Grainne Mhaols name, thereby referencing the way she was cruelly written out of history by male scholars. Instead her voice has been replaced by numerous female voices that refer to her as ‘she’.

The sculptural ‘islands’ and ‘boats’ are made from distinctly feminine materials but any assumptions of weakness these materials might invoke are quashed by the contrasting rough and ready textures of the found natural materials. The aim is to humorously breach the boundaries of gender bias and imagination.

“Temple”

A temple of respite for one night only.

You will be invited to move around the temple, take time out and find your headspace though art and interactions.

Make a devotion, bathe in the light, speak to the plants, calm yourself and listen to soothing sounds. 

Breathe in, hold, breathe out, hold, continue...
Come be restored and let go.

Triangular Brush at Claremorris Open Exhibition 2017.

Jojo Hynes -Annelie Fawke -Joanne Newman

Triangular Brush says: "The world needs more Heroines!” Impatient for a new Heroine to emerge we have created Síobhan Ní Eidhin; a legendary female character for our times. 'The Legend of Síobhan Ní Eidhin' is 'Heroine as Art Event’, with rumour, hearsay and stories as our content, and procession, souvenirs and posters as our medium

4min 21 sec Sound installation,

Coloured lighting Gel,

Digital canvas prints,

Foil survival blankets.

The Marble Cave of Gadime, Kosovo 2015

installation:  video projection, colour, sound & sculptures

First woman in Space now seeks one-way ticket to Mars

Inspired by the story of Valentina Tereshkova’s imperfect mission in Space and her current dream to get a one-way ticket to Mars

Labor Gallery, Budapest 2015

2min 56sec

HD Video Projection, colour, sound

Rewrote the Wawel Dragon story (.....forced marriage and women as passive prizes!!......ammmm not on my watch......) This princess is taking matters into her own hands.

MOS Gallery Kraków Poland 2014

3min

HD Video Projection, colour, sound

Just as I was beginning my undercover operation a collection of interviews entitled 'From Typist to Trailblazer: The Evolving View of Women in the CIA's Workforce' had been declassified by the CIA.

Broadwick Street, London 2014

5min 23sec

HD Video Projection, colour, sound

After falling aesthically in love with a rented trumpet that I couldn't play, I uncovered the stories of real and fictional female jazz instrumentalists. 

Mart Gallery, Rathmines, Dublin 2015