Forthcoming exhibitions and current research
2025
Solo Exhibition, IAC, New York
I.S.C.P. Three month production residency
2024
P.h.D. U.U. Psychoanalysis and Culture, Investigating the potential for live art to affect behaviour change in the public in relation to the climate and biodiversity crises. Scholarship
Solo Exhibition,RHA Main Gallery, Spring
2023
I.S.C.P. Residency, New York, Summer
C.C.I. Residency, Paris, Spring
2022
SÍM Residency, Iceland, December
The Dock, Solo Exhibition, Autumn 22
Invited Artist in Residence, another year, VISUAL Carlow
2021
'Turas', group exhibition with Dorothy Cross, Sarah Lewtas, Anthony Haughey and Ursula Burke, Regional Cultural Centre, Letterkenny, Co. Donegal
Ark for Life, Arts Council Commission, collaboration with Pallas/Projects and Studios and Dublin 8 communities.
The Drawing Box group exhibition, Kanu Nayak Art Foundation, Mumbai, India
VISUAL Carlow, Artist in Residence
‘Development of identity in the brain’ research project dept. Neuroscience, dept. of History and the Centre for Climate and Humanities, Trinity College Dublin.
2020
Dublin Art Book Fair NINE artists collective.
NINE artists collective, pocket exhibition, Covid19 collaboration.
‘Games for artist’s and non-artists’, curated by Brendan Fox, with Child Naming Ceremony Artist collective.
'Development of identity in the brain', major collaborative research project, Dept. Neuroscience, Trinity College Dublin, Sixbetween productions, London
Round 1, Visual Arts Bursary Award, Arts Council Ireland
2019
SIRENS IV, FUTURES SERIES 3, EPISODE 3, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Nov - Jan 2020
Artist in Residence, St., Vincent’s National Girls School Dublin as part of Temple Bar Gallery Creative Generations Programme, funded by Central Bank of Ireland.
HOST by Child Naming Ceremony Artist Collective, Live Performance, Studio 6, Temple Bar Gallery and Studios, Dublin, October
SIRENS III , Kevin Kavanagh Gallery Dublin August
LIVE COLLISION International Live Art Festival, Project Arts Centre and Temple Bar Gallery and Studios, Dublin April
SIRENS solo exhibition, Pallas Projects//Studiios, March
Collaboration with National Youth Project Ballyshannon, Co. Donegal and Connect Mental Health, Project realisation 2019
Temple Bar Gallery and Studio Project Award 2019
2018
Periodical Review #8 Pallas Project and Studios
Cowhouse Studio's, 'Mothership: Satellite' residency programme Oct/Nov 2018
'Deconstruct to Reconstruct' performance for 'Beyond the Sandy Suburbs' in Pallas Project and Studio Gallery in collaboration with Ella Bertillson and Ulla Juske, Sep., 2018
Craw Festival, Berlin, screening ' We are in Cahoots...You and I ' Kunstaate Keller Berlin, June 2018
'grace', Live performance for ROOM, part of CAPP: Network (Collaborative Arts Practice Programme) meeting in Dublin, June 2018
Live Collision, International Live Art Festival, Project Arts Centre Dublin Apr. 2018
Dublin Dance festival, Roundtable talk, collaborative Art practice, The Peacock theatre, Dublin Apr., 2018
2017
Artist in the community scheme, Introducing Live Art to 'hard to reach' communities in the North West of Ireland. Context - Arts and Health, Autumn/Winter 2017
Mobius International Live Art - Performance festival Boston September 2017
Dublin Live Art Festival - Performance- August 2017
Dublin Live Art Festival - Seminar talk - August 2017
Galway Fringe Festival July 2017
Live Performance Event, curated by Roisin Bohan, Temple Bar gallery and studio's, May 2017
2016
'Hahahahahaha . . . ' Live Performance event, MART, Dublin, Group residency conclusion show, Dec 2016
Hand luggage, group exhibition, The Arches, Glasgow, in collaboration with WAVEparticle, October 14th 2016
Still, group exhibition of Live Performance and Installation, The Complex, Dublin, October 6th 2016
Collective Memory (The Past and Future is ours), Bushwick Open Studios, Brooklyn, New York
We are in cahoots...You and I, Mfa graduate show, Ncad Annex, James st., Dublin
Glitter, ROOM, quarterly performance collective, Arbour Hill
Exodus, Livestock, bi-monthly performance platform @ The Complex, Dublin 7
No More Fun and Games, with Jesse Jones' curated feminist collective, Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery, Dublin
Group Exhibition, Chance 5.5.5.5. 5, Firkin Crane, Cork
2015
Group Exhibition, We are none the less always under the influence of gravity, curated by Lee Welch, The Annex, Ncad, James St., Dublin
Performance with Amanda Coogan, I'll Sing You A Song From Around The Town - Bubble up in Blue, Royal Hibernian Academy, Eli Place, Dublin
Group Exhibition, People who move for work those who are forced to flee, curated by Daniel Birmingham Culture Night, MART, Rathmines Dublin
Group performance Smoking in Bolero, with Amanda Coogan, Live Collision Festival, Dublin
Group Exhibition, MFA Yr 1 interim show, Emmet House, Studios, Meath st., Dublin
Group Exhibition, The Drawing Box, Artist Centre, Mumbai, India
Group Exhibition, From Context to Exhibiton, Artbox, Dublin
Group Exhibition, Gift, Eblana House, Dublin
2014
Group Exhibition, Unfold, The Dock Carrick-on-Shannon, Leitrim
Group Exhibition, Unfold, Institute of Technology, Sligo
Group Exhibition, State of Play, Emmet House Studios, Dublin
2013
Group Exhibtion, Emerging, Leitrim Sculpture Centre, Manorhamilton, Co. Leitrim
Group Exhibition, Emerging, Institute of Technology, Sligo
2012
Group show, Stead, Sligo Festival of live Art The Factory Sligo
Group show, Stead, Workman's club Sligo
2011
Solo show, Carnivale , Helen Allingham gallery, Ballyshannon, Donegal
2003
Fibre Art, Graduate show, Temple Bar art gallery, Dublin
Collections
2013 I.T. Sligo
2015 The Drawing Box, Nival library Archive, project curated by Diane Henshaw
Awards and Residencies
2023, I.S.C.P. Residency, New York
2023, C.C.I. Paris, Residency, Paris
2022, SÍM Residency Iceland
2022, Invited Artist in Residency, Yr 2, VISUAL Carlow
2022, Visual Arts Bursary, Arts Council Ireland
2021, Visual Arts Bursary, Arts Council Ireland
2021, Bursary, Donegal Co. Council
2021, Agility Award, Arts Council Ireland
2021, Invited Annual Artist in Residence, VISUAL Carlow
2020, Visual Arts Bursary, Arts Council Ireland
2020 Bursary, Donegal Co. Council
Arts Council Commission Award in partnership with Pallas Projects/Studios
Temple Bar Gallery and Studios, Creative Generations Artist in Residence, Funded by The Central Bank of Ireland.
Project Studio Award, Temple Bar Gallery and Studio's, Dublin 2019
Tyrone Guthrie Centre Annamakerrig, February 2018
The Mothership Project Satellite residency, Cowhouse Studio's, 2018
Arts Council Ireland, Artist in the Community Scheme, 2017
Arts Council Ireland, Next Generation Bursary Award, 2017
MART June-December 2016
Teaching Experience
Adult Education: Current Panel member
Art and Design QQI Level 6, Education and Training Board, Letterkenny
Basic Education and Literacy, Level 5, Education and Training Board, Letterkenny
Second Level
2017-2019
Substitute Art Teacher Art Craft and Design, Glenties Comprehensive School, Co. Donegal
2011- 2017
Substitute Art Teacher Art Craft and Design, Colaiste Cholmchille, Co. Donegal
Education
2017 Training and Development QQI Level 6, E.T.B., Letterkenny
2014- 2016 MFA, Sculpture and expanded practices, National College of Art and Design, Dublin
2011-2014 BFA, Institute of Technology, Sligo
2001-2003 HND, Fibre Art, Ballyfermot College of Further and Higher Education, Dublin