Paps of Anu, Neolithic ceremonial site, Co. Kerry
Performance at 2,264 feet on the Western Pap
Paps of Anu, Co. Kerry
October 2024
Video still credit: Peter Hassett
Embodying the archetype of Mother Earth and inspired by ancient Celtic matriarchal societies and deities, my work engages with the Paps of Anu, named after the ancient Celtic Mother Goddess Danu. Neolithic stone burial cairns crown the two summits, the Western and Eastern Paps. connected
Performance at 2,2707 feet on the Eastern Pap
Paps of Anu, Co. Kerry
May 2025
Video stills credit: Peter Hassett
Over the past two years, I have climbed these mountains to undertake sustained, co-creative explorations for the camera at this sacred site.
Performance between the Western and Eastern Pap
Paps of Anu, Co. Kerry
May 2025
Video stills credit: Peter Hassett
Video still credit: Peter Hassett
The two summits are connected by a processional trail of larger stones.
Paps of Anu Project, artworks in progress
Mother Deviner, 2026
Found root ball, 'mother' sewn in Ogham stretched between branches
Visible, 2026
Performance image at Shrone Lake, 'visable' sewn in Ogham into the photographic paper
Alone, 2026
Performance image at Shrone Lake, netting, 'alone' sewn in Ogham into the photographic paper.
Matriarchial ancestral home/ Ancient Glenbower Forest
Embodying the archetypes of Mother Earth (green) and Ancestorial Warriors (blue) as conduits to four generations of my Matriarchial lineage. Ongoing ritual co-creations with my ancestral home-town and in the ancient Glenbower Forest. Image Stills below taken from performances to camera with my mother at Greywood Arts, (former Republican Army Barracks built in 1767).
Performance to camera
Glenbower Wood
2025
Annie - Mary
Performance image at Glenbower Wood, my grandmother and great-grandmothers names sewn in Ogham into the photographic paper.
Massey Wood, Neolithic ceremonial site - Ongoing project
Merging the Line
Video still
Duration 5min 18sec
Massy, 2024
Layering of performative skins
Ancient Ogham text
Laying the Line
Video still
Duration 6min 26sec
Massy, 2024
Laying a line with boundary tape
Laying the Line
Video still
Duration 6min 26sec
Massy, 2024
Layers of boundary tape
Curiosity, Art Project in Tallaght University Hospital (TUH), 2023-2025
Curiosity Project 2022-2025
Collaborative project with the Dermatology Department in TUH Dublin
Artistic outcome:
Diaphony - permenant sculptural installation in Tallaght University Hospital, Dublin
Diaphony is a sculptural installation of over 250 perspex discs. It is inspired by Hassett’s research and conversations with consultant Dermatologist Marie Tobin.
Photo credit: Alison Baker Kerrigan
Curiosity Project 2022-2025
Image: detail of Diaphony installation
Diaphony, like skin is not a perfect mesh of aligned cells, instead it highlights both cells and intercellular spaces, revealing what layers lie beneath. This piece incorporates different types of language: English, Medical terminology, Ogham and Colour,
With thanks to the Meath Foundation
Curiosity Project 2022-2025
Image: detail of Diaphony installation
Each disc is stitched together in overlapping translucent layers. The paint embedded into the hand etched lines, images and words make the markings visible. Each etching echoes notions pertaining to the physical, social and politicalised body.
With thanks to the Meath Foundation
Collaborative group performances with Outlandish Theatre Group
Outlandish Theatre Company
FEAR, 2022
Collaborative performance
Outlandish Theatre Company
Bodies, 2021
Collaborative performance
Outlandish Theatre Company
The Comfort Zone,
Collaborative group performance with staff and clients at the Martha Whiteway Day Hospital at Mercer's Institute for Successful Ageing.
Collaborations: Art & Science, TCD Trees Embrittled | Resilient Exhibition, 2019
Outdoor installation with Oregon Maple, Parson's Building.
Paper tubes, scientific images, plant material from fallen trees, covered in bioplastic
Outdoor installation with Oregon Maple, Parsons Building
Due to environmental factors and the nature of the material the paper tubes collapsed
Indoor Exhibition, Museum Building, TCD
Twitter table, scientific imagery, time lapse photos of the tree felling, hand made paper drawings
Indoor Exhibition, Museum Building
Sculpture on plinth
Slice of the fallen tree
Pen drawing on handmade paper (made with plant material from fallen tree)
Indoor exhibition, Parsons Building, TCD
Scientific research, paper tube and 3dprints
Indoor Exhibition, Parsons Building, TCD
Lightbox image of building interior showing the original exterior wall now inside, part of the extension.
Co-creating art project with people living with a dementia
Rose Cottage
Alzheimer society of Ireland day care center, Dublin, 2019
Inspired by Meet Me at MOMA art & dementia programme Hassett developed a series of eight co-creation workshops for clients and staff of Rose Cottage
A selection of artworks were created by the clients, their carers, and staff of Rose Cottage.
Collaborations: Art & Science, TCD Trees 2017 project and exhibition
Trinity College Trees collaborative group, 2017
Prof. David Taylor, David Hackett, Clodagh Dooley, Olivia Hassett
(in front of Oregon Maple artwork)
Inspiration for Snake Bark Tree artwork, 2017
Scanning Electron Microscope image
Snake Bark Tree artwork
2017 Exhibition
One of eight artworks inspired by and installed in the trees of TCD
Cherry Blossom Pollen, 2016
Scanning Electron Microscope image
Cherry Blossom artwork, 2017 exhibition
One of eight artworks installed in the trees of TCD
Plane Tree Artwork, 2017 Exhibition
Wax polyp, one of two, installed in sister plane trees in TCD
Exoskeleton project/ Endo Exo exhibition, 2015. Olivia Hassett & David Taylor
Olivia Hassett and Professor David Taylor
In conversation about their Exoskeleton Project in deAppendix, 2015
Endo Exo
Joint exhibition by Olivia Hassett & David Taylor in Parsons building, TCD
Exhibition installation view
Exoskeleton
Designed by David Taylor and created in wax by Olivia Hassett
This artwork was designed to transform during the exhibition
Close up view of sculptural element
Collapse
Lambda photographic print in liquid acrylic
Upright
Lambda photographic print in liquid acrylic
Cumulative Sampling exhibition/ performance, Clodagh Dooley & Olivia Hassett 2016
Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) image by Clodagh Dooley
Four water samples taken from the Grand canal.
SEM used by Hassett to create artworks
SEM image by Clodagh Dooley
Used by Hassett to inspire the following drawing
Drawing in pencil on paper by Olivia Hassett
Etched fluorescent perspex artwork
Four perspex artworks
Inspired by SEM images from four water samples
Installed as part of To follow the water group exhibition, curated by Anne Mullee
Cumulative Sampling
Episodic performance over four days
Image day four