Pascaline Horan
Artist Bio
Pascaline Horan is a visual artist, originally from Co. Offaly, living in Cork city. She graduated in 2025 from Crawford College of Art and Design with a First Class Honours in Fine Art. She received an MTU Arts Office STEAM Exhibition Award, a Cork Craft & Design Emerge Exhibition Award, and a Backwater Artists Network Award for her graduate show. She works across multiple media including drawing, painting, collage, photography, sculpture, and installation. Her work is nature and landscape based. It stems from a deep personal connection with nature and particularly in connecting with nature through walking in the landscape.
Artist Statement
My work currently draws inspiration from the ideas of the Symbiocene and biophilia – concepts that emphasize the potential for harmony between humans and their environment. I am drawn to layered spaces and to excavating meaning which is revealed in natural and human induced processes within landscapes. I work across a variety of media, layering elements such as drawing, painting, sculpture, and video to create immersive installations.
In recent work I focus on a bog where nature is reclaiming its lost territory following the cessation of industrial peat-cutting. The common reed, a plant that was important in the formation of the raised bogs of the midlands, and in providing shelter for our early settlers, has begun colonising the rewetted area. Its rhizomatic stolons are finding their way across seemingly barren stretches of peat and industrial water channels. Aspects of Irish mythology and folklore inform the work.
Membership: Backwater Artists Network 
