They That Sorrow / Lucht an Dobróin
Shannon Jade Wilson
National College of Art and Design Dublin
They That Sorrow / Lucht an Dobróin is an immersive installation exploring what haunts us and how folklore, grief and memory persist through bodies, materials and landscapes. Rooted in Irish mourning traditions and the figure of the banshee, the project brings together printmaking, drawing, sculpture, moving image, projection and sound. Acetate drypoints, flax monotypes, chalk hair drawings and suspended knotted forms evoke traces of absent bodies and inherited stories. Developed through archival, oral-history and place-based research, the installation unfolds as a fragmented, spectral environment where landscape, voice and material become carriers of collective and personal memory across time and generations.