1iing heaney
1iing heaney
Bio: 1iing heaney is a multidisciplinary artist based in Co. Kildare, working across 3D print, machine learning, Extended Reality, stone, CGI, and steel. Through sculptural and screen-based experience, her work looks at how the digital age shapes our relationship to land, ecology, and memory.
Her work has been exhibited in Ireland and internationally, including solo exhibitions world without end (Mermaid Arts Centre, 2023) and Hyper- (Pallas Projects, 2019), and group exhibitions/screenings Archive of the Stars (Studio Halo, Berlin, 2026), cciirrccaaddiiaann (ZAZCorner, New York), and New Irish Video (HDLU, Zagreb). 1iing has been supported by the Arts Council and Wicklow, Kildare, and Fingal Arts Offices.
1iing graduated from NCAD in 2015 with a BA in Fine Art Media and Visual Culture. In 2025, she returned to NCAD for the Professional Diploma in Art & Ecology. Currently, she is undertaking a practice-led Masters by Research in IADT through a scholarship from TU Rise Elevate.
Artwork Description and Title of Work: Elk_Agent (Working Title)
Elk_Agent is a work in progress from my practice-led Masters research on the Bog of Allen, focusing on the Timahoe Solar Farm in North Kildare, where entangled histories of technology and ecology emerge, and the past:present:future collide.
Utilising methods of speculative fabulation, a digital 3D scan of an Irish Elk skeleton, found in an Irish bog and now displayed in the Vienna Museum of Natural History, is taught, through machine learning, to reorient itself and walk again in an alien digital space it never evolved for. An organic glitch that erupts into the present.
This research continues to be produced through fieldwork, analogue photography, cyanotypes, small solar-powered electronics, mist projection screens, and 3D scanning. The work is inspired by the energetic bog landscape, where environmental reports, folklore, data, electricity, ecology, heritage, archeology, and other-than-human processes mingle.
Creator/work website: www.1iing.com Instagram: @1i_ing
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