As an international Artist, Hirsk repositions sculpture as critical socio-spatial practice, to explore the interrelationship between encounter, performativity, photography, memory and materiality within the public sphere, as live organism, fluid and entangled, and as a source of marginalised narratives and experiences.

From Northern Ireland, based in Sweden, works are contextualised against conflict histories, geo-politics and hybrid identities, to prioritise cross-cultural, ethical and imaginative counter-methodologies with potential to affect change, even within small-scale contexts.
With an exhibition, research and project portfolio across Europe, USA and UK, Hirsk gained her M.A. Fine Art, UK, in 2004, followed by a socially engaged post-grad. in Art Education from Liverpool John Moores, in 2007.

Recent works favour hybrid, interventionist formats, that propose site-body-sculpture as a field of action, as context-responsive, more-than monument, as in Assault Protection Units, exhibited at CFF (Centrum for Fotografi), Stockholm, 2020, and the Grief Cartographies, as part of the Woven Network Nordics Residency, initiated by Intercult, Sweden, and exhibited at Studio 44, Stockholm, 2021.
With the thematic focus of ‘Gender and Space’, Hirsk’s sculpture and film titled (In)Mura, 2021, mediated contested architectural anatomies at Långholmens Spinnhuset’ (Women’s Prison, 1649-1825), Stockholm, and was exhibited as part of ‘Buone Nuove’ exhibition, at MAXXI, 2022.
In 2023, the exhibition Buone Nuove. Women Changing Architecture, will also be presented in Stockholm for the first time, beginning a tour across international contexts.

New research frameworks include the development of an artist-run network and digital project space, Distance Lab (Nordic), 2022, with artists from Sweden and Norway alongside new membership of KKV Monumental Malmö, 2022, that collectively propose participatory, collaborative and (re)generative sites for for thinking/being/doing sculpture.