CONFESS

“Bless Me Child For I Have Sinned”, “The Children”, and “Stations of Hope” are the three bodies of work that comprise the exhibition known as Confess.

I am an Irish artist who has been living in Los Angeles, California since 1989. I was raised in a devout Catholic family in Belfast, Northern Ireland. The Catholic Church was a refuge for me as a child growing up in the Troubles. When I started to hear news stories of the sexual abuse of children by Catholic priests I was devastated. I was taught that these men represented God on earth, so how could they be committing the most evil of crimes against children? It shook me to my core.