Featuring the artist herself, her daughter and mother, this film project by local artist Etaoin Melville investigates matrilineal lines, patterns that are passed from one generation to another and mothers’ primal instincts as protectors. The vast ocean background mirrors our cycles with its tides, the passing of time and the inherent strength of these bonds.

Etaoin Melville is a visual artist based in Cork. She holds an Honours Degree in Visual Art, (TUD, Sherkin Island) and studied Film and T.V production in St. John’s College, Cork. She is a recipient of two Arts Council of Ireland Agility Awards and is a studio-based member of Sample-Studios.

Triskel Sample Project Space is a new partnership between Triskel and Sample-Studios that will provide a visual arts project space for artists, especially emerging and mid-career artists, to test ideas and to develop new work that can be seen by the public. This offers tangible career development and audience engagement opportunities to artists on their ‘home turf’ where they have a safe space to develop new ideas, within which risk-taking is possible.