'Tea Towel C' Screenrprint - Limited Edition of 4

Part of the It’s an Irish Thing series, this work centres on one of the most familiar objects in the working kitchen—the tea towel series.

Always within reach, it passes from hand to hand, thrown over the shoulder, used without thought. It holds the rhythm of daily life: drying, lifting, wiping, moving quietly through every task.

Layered within the print are patterns of vintage, expensive china—the “good” china—now transferred onto the surface of the tea towel. What was once kept for best is brought into the everyday, softened, handled, and made useful.

In this shift, the work reflects how value changes through use. The divide between the “good” room and the working kitchen begins to blur, where care and ritual are no longer reserved for special occasions, but live within the ordinary, repeated gestures of home.