Floating ideas on Ireland’s migrant culture

Jason Deans’ exhibition in Cobh touches on Brexit and emigration, writes Colette Sheridan.

Looking out from one of the bay windows of the Sirius Arts Centre in Cobh, artist, Jason Deans, draws attention to the proximity of Haulbowline Island, the home port of the Irish naval vessel, the LE Samuel Beckett. It is fitting that Deans’s scale recreation of this ship has such a backdrop, as well as that of nearby Spike Island with its past as a Treaty port.