Grace Dyas

Waiting Day

Rachael's life is controlled by social welfare payments. Recently split from her partner, Rachael raises her daughters by finding humour in their repetitive existence.

The Rattle

Tina returns home to try to come off crack, supervised by her mother. Together they embark upon a ‘rattle’. The whole thing is witnessed by her 3-year-old daughter.

Aftermath

Bernie fights stigma, shame and her own demons while trying to hold her family together in the wake of her son's drug-related death.

The No Show

Inspired by working-class men known not to turn up, The No Show is an attempt to experience the absence they create and to explore their internal world. Who didn’t show up for them? To understand them, we need to meet their fathers and their grandfathers. Like Russian dolls, we complicate the narrative about them. Over two years, Catherine O’Halloran and Grace Dyas worked with young men in Limerick City Build to devise a trauma-informed contemporary art film that tells the origin story of trauma experienced by generations of working-class families. The film presents visceral flickers of loss, abuse, banality, to represent absence and emptiness, and to explore how we might show up for ourselves.