Audrey Gildea
**Imaging Ecologies: An Enquiry into Alternative Photography** is part of Audrey Gildea’s on-going investigation into alternative image-making. Gildea’s process-based practice looks outwards to sites of urban nature in Dublin where she questions the camera and reduces it to its basic form. She gathers materials from her sites and embeds them into her work creating an intimate dialogue between the body, the environment, and the image. **Held Landscapes** is a series of pinhole photographs, taken using a home-made tin camera and developed in the darkroom with plant-based developers. **Material Arrangement** brings together the core elements of the process in a sculptural installation.
Audrey Gildea is a Dublin-based multidisciplinary artist. Her work investigates spaces where natural and man-made forms intersect. Grounded in a process-based practice, Gildea’s work begins in her garden and extends to urban nature sites throughout Dublin. She integrates materials and plants from these sites into her work through her curiosity with alternative photography. Her practice foregrounds the tactile, temporal, and experimental aspects of image-making, inviting a deeper engagement with the landscape and its overlooked ecologies. Gildea has exhibited in **How We See**, DIVA, 2023, **Fractal**, Powerscourt Townhouse, 2024, **Mud Between the Toes**, Pallas Projects/Studios, 2025.
