If we imagine the body as a surface, then in the playground of subjectivity that surface becomes multiple, and through its multiplicity then changeable, interacting, shifting and colliding. The collisions that occur in the playground and the traces left by those collisions, transform these surfaces into a type of palimpsest, a surface that is continually written and rewritten "to diminish the signified to imperceptibility".

The body is central to the work, either through its presence or its absence. As the practice has developed its concerns have become the three basic physical elements of embodiment; edge, surface and depth. Sometimes the depicted bodies are flat surfaces and sometimes a traditionally flat surface (canvas) is installed in a series of folds, transforming the surface into an embodied depth.

Nora was born in Ireland, where she studied art at G.M.I.T, Galway and the University of Ulster, Belfast. In 2003 she completed her masters in fine art at Central Saint Martins, London. She has exhibited in Ireland, UK and Korea. She is presently living in Cambridge.