Employment
• Visual Artist
• Visual Art Workshop Facilitator (Freelance) (2019 – Present)
• Artist Facilitator/Technician at Cow House Studios (Jan 2022- Present )
• Workshop facilitator with The Ark Creative Hubs Programme (ongoing).
• Visitor Services Team and Workshop Assistant – The Ark, Children’s Cultural Centre, Dublin (Sept 2016 - Aug 2022)
• Facilitator panel artist with Rua Red, and Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council Arts Office
Education
Exhibitions (Solo)
BA (Hons) Photography, (2011 – 2015) - Dublin Institute of Technology, Grangegorman.
Irish Sign Language (ISL) – Deaf Society of Ireland (2024 - )‘The People’s Research’ (Online) with Marlee Grace (March 2022)
‘The Practice of Looking’, Visual Thinking Strategies Course (2021), The Lab Gallery,
Dublin City Arts Office
Visual Arts Practice – Ceramics, NCAD (September 2017 – March 2018)
Research Skills Seminar Series, Photo Ireland Critical Academy, The Library Project
(November/December 2017)
Visual Arts Practice – Sculpture and Drawing, Combining Techniques, NCAD (September
2016 – May 2017)
Curating Socially Engaged Projects at Node Centre for Curatorial Studies (September - October 2016).
2024: (Forthcoming, November 2024) Safe Harbour, Lexicon Municipal Gallery, Dún Laoghaire
2023: Play House, The Library Project, Dublin
2021: These Dark Shapes, (Artist-Initiated Project), Pallas Projects, Dublin
2019: Cross the Child’s Palm with Silver, The Darkroom, Dublin
2018: Lay Her Down Upon Her Back, The Library Project, Dublin
Exhibitions
(Select Group)
2023: Nature of Play, Landskrona Museum, Sweden, solo work alongside photographs made by 70 local children during facilitated workshops.
2022: The Rise: In Our Own Image, D-Light Studios, Dublin
2022: Flâneur ao Centro Exhibition (multiple locations in Portugal)
2022: New Irish Works, Museum of Contemporary Photography, PhotoIreland Festival, Dublin
2022: Images are All we Have, Museum of Contemporary Photography, PhotoIreland Festival, Dublin
2022: National Photography Collection Inaugural Exhibition, Gallery of Photography Ireland
2020: Halftone Print Fair, The Library Project, Dublin
2019: The Light from Our Side Shines Differently, Parallel Review, Lisbon, Portugal
2019: thing, aura, metadata, a poem on making, Parallel Review, Lisbon, Portugal
2019: Out of Sight: Picturing the Unseen, Parallel Review, Lisbon, Portugal
2019: Halftone Print Fair, The Library Project, Dublin
2019: Zeitgeist, Robert Capa Centre, Budapest, Hungary
2019: New Irish Works – Museum of Contemporary Photography, Printworks, Dublin Castle, Dublin
2019: thing, aura, metadata, a poem on making, Printworks, Dublin Castle, Dublin
2019: Out of Sight, Picturing the Unseen, Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki, Finland
2019: RHA Annual Exhibition, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin
2019: See Crimson I See Red, Elizabeth Fort (Tactic Galleries), Cork, Ireland
2018/9: (Untitled) Landscape, OPW Touring Exhibition, various locations.
2018: Futures Talent Pool at Unseen Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2018: Parallel Showcase at Organ Vida Festival, Zagreb, Croatia
2018: The Sky Opens Twice, Daverio, Italy
2018: The Sky Opens Twice, JEST Gallery, Turin, Italy
2018: Family of No Man, Arles, France
2018: Unspoken, The Stash Gallery, London
2018: Junior Magazine @ Osman Suite, The Gallery of Photography, Dublin
2017: Halftone, The Library Project
2017: How to Flatten a Mountain Residency Exhibition, Rathfarnham Castle, PhotoIreland Festival.
2017: CEAD Exhibition, National College of Art and Design.
2015: Inspirational Arts Photography Award Exhibition, Inspirational Arts Gallery, Dublin
2015: Lift Off - DIT Graduate Exhibition, DIT Grangegorman, Dublin
2015: BA Photography Graduate Exhibition, National Photographic Archive, Dublin
2015: Artists Among Us - Project Nepal- The Back Loft, La Cathedral Studios, Dublin
2015: Deadly, The Chocolate Factory Creative Community Gallery, Dublin
2014: BERLIN: The Photocopy Club, Urban Spree Gallery, Berlin
2014: Fighting Stereotypes, Bell and Pot Cafe, Dublin
2013: Myriad, Temple Bar Gallery and Studios. Dublin
2012: Open Your Eyes, Little Green Street Gallery, Dublin
2012: The Photocopy Club, London
2012: The Photocopy Club, Brighton
2012: Group Show, U-Bar, Dublin
2012: Homeless Gallery, D-Light Studios, Dublin
Commissions and Funding
Residency and Public Art Commission at The Baths Studios (May 2024 – Feb 2025), Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council Arts Office.
Residency at Landskrona Foto (Sweden) March – April 2023, to develop a photography programme and exhibition with local primary schools.
Arts Council Agility Award, 2023 to participate in a residency at The Leitrim Sculpture Centre to work with a woodwork technician in preparation for a public art commission sculpture.
Arts Council Agility Award, 2022 (round 2), to continue personal practice using photography and textiles, specifically photography quilts.
Young People Children and Education Award (YPCE) from the Arts Council of Ireland, to run an engagement program for young people in the Dublin 1 area, using photography (2022).
Flâneur ao Centro (Portugal), to create a body of work responding to the region of Torres Vedras for an outdoor exhibition in 2022, collaboration with 5 primary schools.
Bualadh Bos Children’s Festival at Lime Tree Theatre and Belltable, Limerick – to design and build an interactive response area for the festival for young people (2021).
Commission Award (2020) – PhotoIreland Festival, to make a response work for young people based on the work “Milky Way” by Hertta Kiiski.
Awarded the Young People Children and Education (YPCE) Arts Council of Ireland Grant (2020)
Awards and Residencies
- Residency at The Baths Studios, Dún Laoghaire (Dec 2023 – February 2025), Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council, Ireland.
- Lay Her Down Upon Her Back was nominated for the Rencontres d'Arles Book Awards in the Author category in 2024.
- Residency at Leitrim Sculpture Centre, Ireland, March 2024.
- Residency at Vermont Studio Centre, USA, January 2023.
- Residency at Cow House Studios, February 2023.
- Residency at Landskrona (Sweden) March – April 2023, to develop at photography programme and exhibition with a local primary school.
- Winner of the Landskrona Foto & Breadfield Dummy Award 2022, “Lay Her Down Upon Her Back” to be published in 2023.
- Shortlisted for the PHMuseum 2022 Women Photographers Grant.
- Selected for the fourth edition of New Irish Works 2022, supported by PhotoIreland.
- Residency – Cow House Studios with Duffy Mooney-Sheppard to assist and work on her YPCE Bursary Project (Jan 2022).
- Digital Residency/Commission from DLRCC “Escape The City” social media project (Jan – March 2022)
- Residency and Commission - Flâneur ao Centro (Portugal), 2021-2022, (residency Oct-Nov 2021).
- Selected by Futures/FotoFestiwal Lodz for Online Tutoring Mentorship program (Mar/Apr/May 2020).
- Residency – Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Co. Monaghan (Ireland) November 2019, Bursary awarded by the Dublin City Arts Office.