Saoirse Higgins

Dr.Saoirse Higgins is an artist researcher based in Ireland and recently on Papa Westray, Orkney Islands. She has a practice-based PhD from the Glasgow School of Art Innovation School, funded by the Highlands and Islands Creative Enterprise. Her practice examines our connections with the environment in the specific context of islands, islanders and the Anthropocene. She triangulates positions moving towards and from the depths of the ‘sea-sphere’ up to the ‘is-land-sphere’ and beyond to the ‘sky-sphere’. She works with video, 3d digital scans, audio field recordings, and performance events. Recent collaborations – Lough Lappers- Lough Ine; The Icelandic Glaciological Society, Icelandic Met Office, Creative Places Ocean and Environment