Marian Balfe is a visual artist, her practice is multidisciplinary, exploring ways in which painting, writing, sculpture, and zine-making may be used to reflect on her surroundings and rural(ish) upbringing. The paintings, Marian will present in this exhibition, are a result of her being both mildly addicted to scrolling on her phone and being nap trapped by her baby. She uses Adverts, not DoneDeal, finding Adverts less crass but more user friendly. She screenshots ads for things she doesn’t need or even really like and pays €1.99 a month to Google for the privilege of storing this data. The discarded jetsam, the specialist services and the pet llamas that illuminate the cracked screen of her Huawei P20 are then painted using luxury brand oil paints and specialist Italian paper.