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