30/07/2026
Resist.
Last Saturday I launched a new series of postcards. To celebrate, I led my first set of photowalks around Dublin 8 as part of The Liberties Festival with a couple of wonderfully curious groups, we sipped some coffee in my office courtesy of Two Pups Coffee, and raised a few glasses in Hopeless Botanics plant shop to celebrate (thanks Glendalough Distillery for continuing the botanical theme!).
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The city rewards attention. Within its streets and structures, another landscape quietly takes shape: plants pushing through cracked walls, neglected gutters, vacant sites and forgotten corners. They reveal places that have been left to time.
Photographed throughout The Liberties, these images are observations of urban flora growing beyond gardens and intention. Buddleia appears throughout the series, alongside other species that have found unexpected places to take hold; persisting wherever the built environment begins to loosen its grip.
Resist. is a collection of ten photographic postcards. Together, they invite a slower way of moving through familiar spaces, where wandering, looking and noticing reveal a shifting botanical landscape woven throughout the fabric of Dublin’s streets.
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With thanks to Muireann Dolan for all the work on this project (including the gorgeous chrysalis-like wrap for the pack of postcards), Linns Archive for early research, and patience, Fiona Nulty for joining the tour and offering a botanist’s vital point of view, and of course John Fallon's "The Capstan Bar" for hosting the post-mortem, as always.
Limited Edition of 200 A6 sized packs of 10 postcards.
Printed by Plus Print Ltd. on Favini Citrus Crush Uncoated 350gsm.
Hand wrapped in Tracing Paper Acid-Free 65gsm.
Featuring poetry excerpts by Paula Meehan.
Available for purchase at Hopeless Botanics, either in store or online.
