‘Invasive Species’ is an immersive site-specific installation. It includes Invasion Stories, a self-published 50-page, linen-covered book, combining text and photography to investigate the stories of invasion, colonisation, land and labour discovered during lockdown explorations of her local Kerry countryside — a contested space, once a farmed property of the absent English landlord — now forgotten and overgrown, having not officially changed hands since Famine times. Modern day aquaculture is now a feature here as a small oyster farm is set up on the coastline and Pacific oysters grip the shore. The videos in this installation thread together the history, politics, ecology, bio-diversity and industry that have affected this site through the ages. Myfanwy uses footage from her DSLR camera, drone and iPhone camera in combination with text that floats meditatively across the images. Ambient sounds from the site
join the sound of local children blowing into glass bottles from the
shore.