Alex McKay is an artist from the north of Ireland working across sculpture, installation, performance and text.
His practice explores older ways of knowing through land, language, ritual and inherited gesture. Drawing on Hiberno-English, Ogham, bog landscapes and family histories, McKay asks what has been lost, interrupted or overlooked within contemporary cultures.
Working with materials such as ancient wood, linen and found objects, his work sits between archaeology and invention, inviting audiences into encounters that are playful, sensory and reflective. His practice seeks points of connection between queer experience, ancestral memory, the land and the living world.
Through acts of making, storytelling and embodied ritual, McKay uses imagination as a means of entering into conversation with other cultures, worlds, times and dimensions—exploring the alternative narratives, possibilities and forms of knowledge they might offer. His work proposes that the future may emerge not only through innovation, but through renewed relationships with mystery, interdependence and exploration of the more-than-human world.
