Patrick Ross McKenna is a multidisciplinary visual artist based in Dublin, Ireland.

 

His practice explores memory, fragmentation, and the tension between presence and absence through process-led painting and text-based work. Working within a restrained minimalist framework, he engages with repetition, archival language, and systems of classification, examining how meaning shifts between legibility and erasure.

 

 

Since 2007, McKenna has developed a longform body of studio work grounded in sustained research and disciplined experimentation. He is currently developing SECTIONED, a 22-work painting series examining the history of nineteenth-century psychiatric institutions in Ireland through archival language and repetitive stamping processes.