Sarah Long is an artist based in Cork. She creates autofiction that she translates across painting, performance and publication. Sarah identifies reverberations in Irish culture and combines these references with personal stories and motifs.

During this exhibition and residency in Triskel Sample Project Space, Sarah takes up the position of the girl or girlishness, to obfuscate archetypes such as woman or mother. Through her character Mary, Sarah engages in an autofictionalised approach. She will develop a new body of autofictional writing into a new performance. The work plays with the notion of the aisling, an Irish poetic genre where the nation appears to the poet in a dream in the form of a woman.