TERRA is a personal exploration of the image culture of Ireland’s largest motor and classifieds website, DoneDeal.ie. Themes of rural Ireland, agriculture, landscape, and regional identity transpire as the author becomes engrossed by found imagery of cars, farm machinery, animals, and land for sale. Given some attention, DoneDeal emerges as an intriguing living document of rural Ireland as depicted incidentally by its own inhabitants.
Mícheál Keating is a media artist and musician from West Limerick whose practice traverses sound, video, multimedia programming, text, and performance. His work employs these forms to explore post-digital memory, temporality, hauntology, rural Limerick, and the more-than-human.
Mícheál joined the Artist in Residence Scheme at Ormston House in 2022. He has a background as the lead singer/songwriter and producer of the band Bleeding Heart Pigeons, which releases LPs with Virgin Records, and as an independent DIY act. In 2020, he graduated from the MA Art and Technology at the University of Limerick. He is also involved in the Limerick City independent music community as a performer, event organiser, and freelance producer.
