​Imelda Colverson’s practice explores themes of trace, absence, memory, and disconnection through a process-led approach to material experimentation. Rather than working towards a fixed outcome, she allows materials and processes to guide the work, using abstraction to communicate emotional experience through fragility, transformation, and unpredictability.​

The Banshee is a key influence within the work. In Irish folklore, the banshee is a spirit existing between worlds whose cry warns of death. Colverson uses the Banshee as a metaphor for grief, memory and disconnection, focusing on ideas of atmosphere, presence, and something partially visible yet difficult to articulate.​

Using cyanotype, collage, installation, and painting, she explores how materials hold meaning through both transformation and association. Fragile materials such as glass, tracing paper, thread, smoke, andlight were chosen for their symbolic qualities. Smoke became significant for its temporary and unpredictable nature, connecting to ideas of disappearance and destruction. Layering, staining, andrepeated marks formed an important part of the process.​

Her degree piece, Ag caoineadh (“crying”), brings together these themes and processes, acting as a form of memory that captures both her making process and emotional experience.