S T A T E M E N T
My practice traces the line between capitalism’s perpetual drive for growth and the consequential edge of collapse. I am interested in how the environment is shaped and severed by economic forces. Through research, documentation, and collecting from specific sites, I build a foundation for immersive and sculptural environments that hold tension between past, present, and speculative futures.
I create spatial interventions that exist in a space between construction and destruction. Working across various media including installation, sculpture, spoken word/sound composition, moving image, and expanded photography, I compose dynamic constellations of work, mirroring places in flux, and the current moment of environmental precarity.
I capture and construct altering environments, in-between and altered spaces that have echoes of political and ecological conditions. I aim to create affective, atmospheric installations that invite reflection on our current moment while holding space for transformation where the interstitial emerges as a space for potentiality.
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2025
Current - Solo Exhibition and Residency, Triskel Arts Centre, Cork City, April - May, 2025
Upcoming - Residency, Correlación Contemporánea, Amazon, Peru, September, 2025
Past - Solo Exhibition, Firkin Crane, Cork City, 16 January - 22 February, 2025
Residency Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre, 10 February - 8 March, 2025
Vertigo: A Crescendo, Cork County Hall, Cork City, February, 7 - 9, February, 2025
Liquid Urbaism, Curated by Clara McsWeeney, The Lab Gallery, Dublin, 13 March - 24 April, 2025
2024
Open studio Exhibition and Residency, Glogauair, Berlin 5.7.24 - 25.9.24
Open studio Exhibition and Residency, Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre, 1.3.24 - 31.3.24
Page, Process, Proceed, curated by Kim Crowley, Studio 12, Backwater Artists, Cork City.
2023
Error: /undefined, Pallas Projects, Dublin, October 2023
Osscilation: An altering rhythm, The Counting house, Cork City, 19.5.23- 23.5.23
2022
Drawbridge, The Lord Mayor's Pavillion, Fitzgerald's Park, Cork City. 6.10.22 - 3.11.22
The Stars are in the Earth, A4 Sounds Studios, Dorset Street, Dublin 1. 11.8.22 - 28.8.22
Residency exhibition at PADA, Lisbon, 26.8.22
The Assembly of Descent, Omnu Creative Houses, Rua da Junqueira, Lisbon 4.8.22 - 25.8.22
Fragments in Constellation, O’Driscoll building, Skibbereen. 22.7.22 - 1.8.22
inter_site at Queen’s Old Castle, Cork City, 14.5.22 & 15.5.22
Pulsating, p(l)ace, for Faoin Speir, Wandesford Quay, Cork, 28.4.22
2021
Origins, Lismore selected Graduate Show, Waterford, 6.11.21
In Cahoots with the Earth, A4 Sounds Studios, Dublin 8, 12.21
Oileáin, curated by Sinead Barrett, Spike Island, 24.9.21
A soft rupture, Goma, Waterford City, 15.7.21 - 22.8.21
And, if we observe the present, Catalyst Arts Centre, as part of Belfast Photo Festival, 3.6.21 - 10.7.21
Standstill, Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre, 5.6.21 - 10.7.21
inter_site, The Marina Market, Cork City, 6.21
Open Insite, Open Studio Exhibition, Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre, 19.6.21- 10.7.21
Oileáin, Lord Mayors pavilion, Fitzgearld's Park, Cork as part of Cork Harbour festival, 20.5.21 - 5.6.21.
Com,ma, window exhibition, 46 Grand parade, 7.1.21 - 27.2.21
Selected solo show
Affectual Occurrence, Open Studio Exhibition, Uillinn: West Cork Art’s Centre, 2020
Effusion, Clonakilty Community Arts Centre, Cork, November 2016.
2 person show
Plexus, by Kate McElroy and Jan Powell, Galway City Gallery, 15 New Dock Road, Galway, 2016.
2020
Com,ma, Masters Show, 56 Grand Parade, Cork City
A window into, A window onto, Culture night display, 56 Grand Parade, Cork City.
Outdraw, Uillinn West Cork Arts Centre, Skibbereen, Cork City.
2019
Winter Showcase, Uillinn West Cork Arts Centre, Skibbereen, Cork City.
Sample Studios Members Exhibition, The Lord Mayor Pavillion
Building Bridges, Yangon, Myanmar.
The Divine Feminine, L.S.A.D., Limerick City.
2018
Building Bridges, Art Multi-Disciplines, Kolkata, India. 10.1.18 -28.1.18.
Art Konsult, Delhi, India. 2.2.21 - 12.2.21
Gallery Sumukha, Bangalore, India. 17.2.21 - 28.3.18.
2017
Collaborative Performance at Nexus Culture Nepal, Patan, Kathmandu, Nepal, 15.11.17.
Open studio and exhibition, Nexus Culture Nepal, 15.11.17 - 17.11.17.
Remix, Music and Art Gallery, Laltipur. Nepal. 15.9.12 - 20.9.12.
The studio classroom, Mary Immaculate College, Limerick. 25.5.17 - 2.6.17
K- fest, Killorglin, Co. Kerry. 2.6.17 - 6.6.12.
Foot by foot, Strule Arts centre, Omagh, Tyrone. 26.1.17 - 11.2.17.
2016
Foot by foot, Higher Bridges Gallery, Enniskillen, Fermanagh. 16.12.16 - 17.1.26
'We Occupy Space', Mart Gallery, Rathmines Road Lower, Dublin 6. 18 - 28.11.16.
Performed at Gallery weekend. Mart Gallery, Rathmines Road Lower, Dublin 6. 28.11.21
Performance at Livestock, 'Body Talk' - curated by Katherine Nolan, The Complex, Little Green street, Dublin. 4 November.
Art fair, Columban hall, Sea Road, Galway. 14 - 16 October.
Kon - fluhks, 406 E Pike St, Seattle, WA 98122-4148, United States. 16 September.
Culture Night, A4 Sounds studios, St. Joseph's Parade, Dublin 1.
Galway Fringe Festival, Columban Hall, Sea Road, Galway City.
K- Fest, Kilorglin, Co. Kerry.
1916 Sackville Street, Botanical gardens, Dublin 9.
Raw, Catalyst art centre, Belfast.
Foot by foot, Higher bridges gallery, Fermanagh.
2015
Winter Show, Damer House Gallery, Roscrea, Co. Tipperary.
This forever (together we raised them hell), No. 1 Chapel Court Lane, Limerick City. .
The studio classroom, Mary immaculate college, Limerick City.
A4 studios culture night exhibition, St. Josephs Parade, Dublin.
Galway Fringe Festival, Galway City Gallery.
2014
Foot by Foot, Higher Bridges Art Gallery, Enniskillen, Fermanagh.
7 x 5, 69 O’ Connell Street, Limerick City.
Personal space, The hive emerging, Waterford City.
Battery, Foundation 14, Tullamore, Co. Offally.
Enniskillen Visual Arts open, Higher Bridges Gallery, Enniskillen, Fermanagh.
2013
RDS Student art awards, Luan Gallery, Athlone, Westmeath.
RDS student art awards, RDS horse show, Dublin 4.
Overture, Exhibition of selected graduates, Damer house Gallery, Roscrea, Tipperary.
V*A*P*I*D’ Video Artistic Photographic Imagery Displays, La Cat Salon, Cathedral Studios, 11 St. Augustine Street, Dublin 8.
Odyssey, LSAD degree show, Limerick school of art and design.
Awards and accolades
2024 - Cork City Council Artist Bursary
Arts Council Agility Award
Arts Council Project Award
2022- Cork City Council, Artist Bursary
Agility Award Arts Council
Arts Council Project Award
2021 – Agility Award Arts Council
1 in 8 national graduates selected for ‘Origins’, Lismore Castle Arts
Longlist RDS awards
Project Award, Arts Council Ireland with Inter_Site
1 in 4 artists selected for ‘And, if we observe the present’ Catalyst Arts, Belfast Photo festival
Awarded artist in Residence at Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre.
2020 – Awarded artist in Residence at Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre.
2017 – 1 in 7 international artists selected for ‘Building Bridges’, interactive new media project and toured exhibition, curated by Ushmita Sahu
Travel and training award, Arts council Ireland
2013 – 1 in 8 Munster graduates selected for ‘Overture’ exhibition, Damer House Gallery
Selected finalist for the RDS awards
Residencies
GlogauAIR, Berlin, July - September, 2024
Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre, April, 2024
CSN, Tramore Road, Cork City, 2023
Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre, 2023
PADA, barrier, Portugal, July - August, 2022
Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre, April - June 2021
Uilinn: West Cork Arts Centre, June - July, 2020
Artist in resident at Nexus Culture Nepal, Patan, Kathmandu, Nepal, Oct - Nov, 2017.
Artist Talks and lecturing
Artist talk, Crawford Photo learning community, Crawford college of Art and Design, 26.11.24
Guest lecturer, Crawford college of Art and Design, 11.10.2024
Artist talk, inter_site with Padraig Spillane, Pallas Projects, 21.11.2023
Guest lecturer, CSN, Tramore Road, Cork City. 21 & 27.9.23
Guest lecturer, Limerick School of Art and Design, 2.2.2022.
Guest lecturer, Crawford college of Art and Design, 30.11.2021 .
Demystifying the Arts Career, Arts in Education Portal, 16.11.021.
Arts practice, San Francisco peer group with Sample Studios, November, 2021. A process of unravelling, series of artist/audience interactions, Uillinn: WCAC, 2020.
Artist Talk, Nexus Culture Nepal, September, 2017.
Artist talk: A4 sounds studios, 16 May, 2017.
Guest Artist, Mary Immaculate College, Limerick
Workspace Social #5: Occupy Space, Ormston House, Limerick, 2016.
Artist talk and exhibition tour, Effusion, Clonakilty arts centre, Cork, 2016.
Meet the artists, Gallery weekend, Mart Gallery, Rathmines, Dublin 8, 2016.
Presented at Visual artist cafe, DLR Lexicon, Dun Laoighre, 2016.
Art Experience
Public Engagement Artist at Uillinn West Cork Arts Centre, 2019 - 2023.
News and media manager - at A4 sounds studios. 2016 - 2017.
Gallery assistant and press officer– Occupy space gallery, Limerick. 2011 - 2015.
Current - Solo Exhibition and Residency, Triskel Arts Centre, Cork City, April - May, 2025
Upcoming - Residency, Correlación Contemporánea, Amazon, Peru, September, 2025
Past - Solo Exhibition, Firkin Crane, Cork City, 16 January - 22 February, 2025
Residency Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre, 10 February - 8 March, 2025
Vertigo: A Crescendo, Cork County Hall, Cork City, February, 7 - 9, February, 2025
Liquid Urbaism, Curated by Clara McsWeeney, The Lab Gallery, Dublin, 13 March - 24 April, 2025
2024
Open studio Exhibition and Residency, Glogauair, Berlin 5.7.24 - 25.9.24
Open studio Exhibition and Residency, Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre, 1.3.24 - 31.3.24
Page, Process, Proceed, curated by Kim Crowley, Studio 12, Backwater Artists, Cork City.
2023
Error: /undefined, Pallas Projects, Dublin, October 2023
Osscilation: An altering rhythm, The Counting house, Cork City, 19.5.23- 23.5.23
2022
Drawbridge, The Lord Mayor's Pavillion, Fitzgerald's Park, Cork City. 6.10.22 - 3.11.22
The Stars are in the Earth, A4 Sounds Studios, Dorset Street, Dublin 1. 11.8.22 - 28.8.22
Residency exhibition at PADA, Lisbon, 26.8.22
The Assembly of Descent, Omnu Creative Houses, Rua da Junqueira, Lisbon 4.8.22 - 25.8.22
Fragments in Constellation, O’Driscoll building, Skibbereen. 22.7.22 - 1.8.22
inter_site at Queen’s Old Castle, Cork City, 14.5.22 & 15.5.22
Pulsating, p(l)ace, for Faoin Speir, Wandesford Quay, Cork, 28.4.22
2021
Origins, Lismore selected Graduate Show, Waterford, 6.11.21
In Cahoots with the Earth, A4 Sounds Studios, Dublin 8, 12.21
Oileáin, curated by Sinead Barrett, Spike Island, 24.9.21
A soft rupture, Goma, Waterford City, 15.7.21 - 22.8.21
And, if we observe the present, Catalyst Arts Centre, as part of Belfast Photo Festival, 3.6.21 - 10.7.21
Standstill, Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre, 5.6.21 - 10.7.21
inter_site, The Marina Market, Cork City, 6.21
Open Insite, Open Studio Exhibition, Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre, 19.6.21- 10.7.21
Oileáin, Lord Mayors pavilion, Fitzgearld's Park, Cork as part of Cork Harbour festival, 20.5.21 - 5.6.21.
Com,ma, window exhibition, 46 Grand parade, 7.1.21 - 27.2.21
Selected solo show
Affectual Occurrence, Open Studio Exhibition, Uillinn: West Cork Art’s Centre, 2020
Effusion, Clonakilty Community Arts Centre, Cork, November 2016.
2 person show
Plexus, by Kate McElroy and Jan Powell, Galway City Gallery, 15 New Dock Road, Galway, 2016.
2020
Com,ma, Masters Show, 56 Grand Parade, Cork City
A window into, A window onto, Culture night display, 56 Grand Parade, Cork City.
Outdraw, Uillinn West Cork Arts Centre, Skibbereen, Cork City.
2019
Winter Showcase, Uillinn West Cork Arts Centre, Skibbereen, Cork City.
Sample Studios Members Exhibition, The Lord Mayor Pavillion
Building Bridges, Yangon, Myanmar.
The Divine Feminine, L.S.A.D., Limerick City.
2018
Building Bridges, Art Multi-Disciplines, Kolkata, India. 10.1.18 -28.1.18.
Art Konsult, Delhi, India. 2.2.21 - 12.2.21
Gallery Sumukha, Bangalore, India. 17.2.21 - 28.3.18.
2017
Collaborative Performance at Nexus Culture Nepal, Patan, Kathmandu, Nepal, 15.11.17.
Open studio and exhibition, Nexus Culture Nepal, 15.11.17 - 17.11.17.
Remix, Music and Art Gallery, Laltipur. Nepal. 15.9.12 - 20.9.12.
The studio classroom, Mary Immaculate College, Limerick. 25.5.17 - 2.6.17
K- fest, Killorglin, Co. Kerry. 2.6.17 - 6.6.12.
Foot by foot, Strule Arts centre, Omagh, Tyrone. 26.1.17 - 11.2.17.
2016
Foot by foot, Higher Bridges Gallery, Enniskillen, Fermanagh. 16.12.16 - 17.1.26
'We Occupy Space', Mart Gallery, Rathmines Road Lower, Dublin 6. 18 - 28.11.16.
Performed at Gallery weekend. Mart Gallery, Rathmines Road Lower, Dublin 6. 28.11.21
Performance at Livestock, 'Body Talk' - curated by Katherine Nolan, The Complex, Little Green street, Dublin. 4 November.
Art fair, Columban hall, Sea Road, Galway. 14 - 16 October.
Kon - fluhks, 406 E Pike St, Seattle, WA 98122-4148, United States. 16 September.
Culture Night, A4 Sounds studios, St. Joseph's Parade, Dublin 1.
Galway Fringe Festival, Columban Hall, Sea Road, Galway City.
K- Fest, Kilorglin, Co. Kerry.
1916 Sackville Street, Botanical gardens, Dublin 9.
Raw, Catalyst art centre, Belfast.
Foot by foot, Higher bridges gallery, Fermanagh.
2015
Winter Show, Damer House Gallery, Roscrea, Co. Tipperary.
This forever (together we raised them hell), No. 1 Chapel Court Lane, Limerick City. .
The studio classroom, Mary immaculate college, Limerick City.
A4 studios culture night exhibition, St. Josephs Parade, Dublin.
Galway Fringe Festival, Galway City Gallery.
2014
Foot by Foot, Higher Bridges Art Gallery, Enniskillen, Fermanagh.
7 x 5, 69 O’ Connell Street, Limerick City.
Personal space, The hive emerging, Waterford City.
Battery, Foundation 14, Tullamore, Co. Offally.
Enniskillen Visual Arts open, Higher Bridges Gallery, Enniskillen, Fermanagh.
2013
RDS Student art awards, Luan Gallery, Athlone, Westmeath.
RDS student art awards, RDS horse show, Dublin 4.
Overture, Exhibition of selected graduates, Damer house Gallery, Roscrea, Tipperary.
V*A*P*I*D’ Video Artistic Photographic Imagery Displays, La Cat Salon, Cathedral Studios, 11 St. Augustine Street, Dublin 8.
Odyssey, LSAD degree show, Limerick school of art and design.
Awards and accolades
2024 - Cork City Council Artist Bursary
Arts Council Agility Award
Arts Council Project Award
2022- Cork City Council, Artist Bursary
Agility Award Arts Council
Arts Council Project Award
2021 – Agility Award Arts Council
1 in 8 national graduates selected for ‘Origins’, Lismore Castle Arts
Longlist RDS awards
Project Award, Arts Council Ireland with Inter_Site
1 in 4 artists selected for ‘And, if we observe the present’ Catalyst Arts, Belfast Photo festival
Awarded artist in Residence at Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre.
2020 – Awarded artist in Residence at Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre.
2017 – 1 in 7 international artists selected for ‘Building Bridges’, interactive new media project and toured exhibition, curated by Ushmita Sahu
Travel and training award, Arts council Ireland
2013 – 1 in 8 Munster graduates selected for ‘Overture’ exhibition, Damer House Gallery
Selected finalist for the RDS awards
Residencies
GlogauAIR, Berlin, July - September, 2024
Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre, April, 2024
CSN, Tramore Road, Cork City, 2023
Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre, 2023
PADA, barrier, Portugal, July - August, 2022
Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre, April - June 2021
Uilinn: West Cork Arts Centre, June - July, 2020
Artist in resident at Nexus Culture Nepal, Patan, Kathmandu, Nepal, Oct - Nov, 2017.
Artist Talks and lecturing
Artist talk, Crawford Photo learning community, Crawford college of Art and Design, 26.11.24
Guest lecturer, Crawford college of Art and Design, 11.10.2024
Artist talk, inter_site with Padraig Spillane, Pallas Projects, 21.11.2023
Guest lecturer, CSN, Tramore Road, Cork City. 21 & 27.9.23
Guest lecturer, Limerick School of Art and Design, 2.2.2022.
Guest lecturer, Crawford college of Art and Design, 30.11.2021 .
Demystifying the Arts Career, Arts in Education Portal, 16.11.021.
Arts practice, San Francisco peer group with Sample Studios, November, 2021. A process of unravelling, series of artist/audience interactions, Uillinn: WCAC, 2020.
Artist Talk, Nexus Culture Nepal, September, 2017.
Artist talk: A4 sounds studios, 16 May, 2017.
Guest Artist, Mary Immaculate College, Limerick
Workspace Social #5: Occupy Space, Ormston House, Limerick, 2016.
Artist talk and exhibition tour, Effusion, Clonakilty arts centre, Cork, 2016.
Meet the artists, Gallery weekend, Mart Gallery, Rathmines, Dublin 8, 2016.
Presented at Visual artist cafe, DLR Lexicon, Dun Laoighre, 2016.
Art Experience
Public Engagement Artist at Uillinn West Cork Arts Centre, 2019 - 2023.
News and media manager - at A4 sounds studios. 2016 - 2017.
Gallery assistant and press officer– Occupy space gallery, Limerick. 2011 - 2015.