Shia Conlon is a writer and artist whose work has been centred around marginalised voices and growing up in the landscape of working-class Catholic Ireland. Conlon’s research is focused on non-linear time, queer representation, archives, language, and memory.

He lives and works in Helsinki, Finland. Conlon’s Against Domestication is an examination of power structures and how they might op a body. Those structures take the shape of gender, sexuality, religion, the family, and the state. The project serves as a form in which to explore the rearticulation of trauma where the camera is utilised as a form of speech. The resulting image acts as a language to communicate the otherwise ineffable.

So often trauma takes away the inability to articulate, and memories become obscured. The act of speaking, making a language, post-trauma, is political. His work has been purchased for the National Photography Collection at Photo Museum Ireland.