Limerick City Gallery of Art (LCGA) is delighted to present the installation The Invisible Visible by Caoimhe Glennon, the Graduate Award winner from the Limerick School of Art & Design, Sculpture & Combined Media 2025.

The Invisible Visible centres around the Glennon’s diagnosis of PCOS, a condition that causes the formation of polycystic ovaries. Her work explores personal narrative connections discovered between rookeries and polycystic ovaries, both of which require specific circumstances to be revealed, and when they are, are found as clusters of dark circles.

The artist’s work is a poetic construction that highlights these connections and explores the moment of revelation. She discovered that these birds created structures which mirrored the bodily disorder with which she was struggling. Having always held a great fondness for rooks, this moment of revelation deeply resonated with the artist. The aesthetic of medical paraphernalia inspires the sculptures. The metal frames reinterpret the traditional folding screen, transforming an object used to conceal into one that reveals. The metal structures ruminate on the human form, reflecting our bodily proportions. One structure built to the average height of where ovaries exist in the female body, the other built to display a rare object at a suitable viewing height. The images of these patterns of dark circles coalesce and contrast the objects on display. A rook’s nest and an ovary are revealed as they truly are, from abstraction to reality. A rook is perched up high, observing its creation: a creation made of sticks, grass, mud, and locks of hair from livestock. An interspecies collaboration. A correspondence between artist and muse.