Education
Graduated from Fine Art (sculpture) degree (Joint Course, Art History) National College of Art and Design, Dublin, June 2011
'Art in the Contemporary World' Masters in the National College of Art and Design, Dublin 2012-2013.
Awards
2015
Fire Station Studios Artists Studios/ADI Mentoring Programme - mentoring and studio in Fire Station Studios, Dublin.
Arts Council - Travel and Training.
The Artists Village - WARP, Bruges, Belgium, August.
2016
Residency award Fire Station Studios, commencing January 2017.
2019
Culture Ireland Funding
Arts Council Visual Arts Bursary.
2020
Temple Bar Gallery and Studios Project Studio Award, November 2020.
Arts and Disability Connect Award, 2020.
2022
Arts Council acquisition of ‘BirdBecomeBird’ performance work, for their permanent collection.
Exhibitions/performances/work
2022
‘Living Balance’ exhibition, The Library Project with Black Church Print Studios, curated by Debi Paul, January.
Upcoming - Peripheries residency and exhibition/performance at The Ceramic House Brighton, April - May.
Upcoming - File Note - writing commission for Fire Station Artist Studios.
Upcoming - ‘Curated by’ invitation to create an evening of performance at Unit 44 music space, by Kirkos Ensemble, Stoneybatter, Dublin.
2021
Performance and reading for Shelving literary event, Kildare Readers Festival, 5th October. Curated by Nathan O'Donnell and Susan Tomaselli (gorse journal).
Losing the Branches, poetic essay for Architecture Ireland Magazine, edition 319.
Interview with Belgian artist Sarah Vanhee published in THIS IS NOT A DRAMATISATION – THIS IS REALLY HAPPENING book on contemporary performance by Draff magazine, Ireland.
Gut-Works poetic texts for Barbara Knezevic exhibition publication, 'Tools for Well Being' RHA gallery, August.
‘Our Always is Here’, Poetic text, audio work vocal recordings, and photograph in relation to theosophy, automatic writing, collaborating with ghosts and the work George AE Russell, Model Gallery Sligo, for The Body Electric exhibition May.
Precipice of an End, as part of Phonica audio/text archive, published in Hotel magazine, U.K. April.
Inclusion of All Stops to the Point, essay in 'Some Good Will Come' book, published by Fallowmedia press, Feb.
2020
Paradise Isle, short story in conjunction with 'On Chorus', audio-work with Chris Steenson, online/in train stations with Irish Rail, launching November 16th.
Audio work, Lazarus Lingua for Tulca 2020, curated by Sarah Browne, Galway, November 6th.
Text for AEMI, on film by Bryony Dunne, online, November 4th.
Online workshop on performance with text, Catalyst Gallery, Belfast, October 10th.
Video reading for Between.Pomiędzy Festival theatre/literary festival, May.
Text contribution to I Know, But Only Just, with Claire Louise Bennett/Ruby Wallis, Winter Papers, April.
Stew Stew Fluxus, Group performance/lecture, Signal Art Centre, curated by Eleanor Phillips, with Seamus Nolan, Rachel Fallon and Sean Miller. March 7.
Reactive Practices event, at IMMA Club Chroma, organised by Nathan O’Donnell and Julie Bates, 16th January.
2019
Winter Papers, published essay and photographs in publication as well as taking part in accompanying exhibition in Engage Studios Galway, December, with Maeve Curtis, Olivia Smith, Kevin Barry. November 2019 - February 2020. Accompanying talk with Ian Malaney December.
Performative talk for 'Art and Psychoanalysis' event with Irish Circle of Lacanian Orientation, Irish Arts Club, September.
Embodiment exhibition, Galerie Michaelstock in Vienna, in association with Fire Station Studios, September, including performances, installation, talk.
Vocal performance in TENT Rotterdam as part of Post-Opera exhibition, curated by Kris Dittel, June 14th.
Between.Pomiędzy Festival in Warsaw, Sopot and Gdansk for readings/workshops with support of Irish Embassy, and Professer Julie Bates TCD, May13-15th.
Performance/talk for Basic Talks, Basic Space, Hugh Lane Gallery Dublin, April.
Musical improvisation with Mick O'Shea and Paul Hegarty in Plugd, Cork, 10th March.
Residency in the Guesthouse artspace, Cork for month of February with performances and reading group.
Workshop for IMMA Members as part of Walker & Walker exhibition events, 28thFebruary.
Texts for various publications – VAI newsheet, 'And the days run away like wild horses over the hills' exhibition program July, upcoming publication for Wexford Bypass percent scheme, and text for publication for Mark Garry exhibition in Mac 2020.
2018
ACW/Paper Visual Artjournal event for Temple Bar Gallery Bookfair, November.
Publication of a 'Line'n' poem in Issue 7 Tangerine magazine October.
Entangle,performance/wall text/audio in group show as part of Diep-Haven festival, Phoenix Institute Brighton, curated by Rosie Hermon, August 1st.
Line-n,commission for 'New Spaces' by Visual Artist Northern Ireland, text installation at Sion Stables Tyrone, curated by Alice Butler, July 16th.
Audio work Always One on the Outside in 'And Still Like Dust I'll Rise' group show, curated by Vivienne Dick, Galway Art Centre June 1st.
Artist in residence The Model Gallery Sligo, May-June.
Talk at Words Ireland event on collaboration for International Literature Festival, 25thMay.
Zoología Fantástica, Solstice Arts Centre Navan, performance of 'All the Beast', curated by Sabina MacMahon, February 1st.
The Eye of the Round, essay for in Sirecatalogue, Maria McKinney, RHA gallery, 2018.
This Matters Now, climate change research group, performance of 'Lazurus Lingua' at Garrett Phelan's Hide Project, with Fingal County Council, January 26th.
2017
ROSC50 Research Commissions Seminar, presentation of collaborative work Inflammatory Speech with Christodoulos Makris and Nathan O'Donnell, IMMA, November 11.
Lost State, audio/text and performance in show with Hugh McCabe, Draoicht Art Centre, 19th October.
Culture night audio performance, 22nd September,in Model Niland, Sligo.
Showing of films in IMMA, Dublin, for Vivienne Dick's show 93% Stardust, opening 15th June, appearance and music for two of her works (e.g. Moon Rising, The Irreducible Difference of the Other).
Score publication in Sustain Decay book, out 19th of June on VoidPoint Press, with Hissen sound group.
Talk and showing of 'The Land Where Nothing is', in Thomas McDonagh Centre, Cloughjordan, Tipperary, April 28th.
Performance at Poetry Now at Mountains to Sea Book Festival, Dunleary Library, with Gorse journal, March 24.
2016
A Different Republic - group show with Fire Station Studios/ADI, The Lab, November 17th.
Refining the Senses, performance with Atoosa Pour Housseni, Filmbase, Dublin, October 22nd.
Infra, Basic Space, Eight Gallery, Dublin, September 15.
Commissioned text by Fingal County Council for Resort residency in Portrane, published on poster September 6th.
Performative reading for Ciaran Smyth at closing event for E.gress, film by Marie Brett, Irish Museum Modern Art, July 14.
Sound performance at New Lacanian School International Congress, Dublin Castle, July 2nd
Listen Hissen Hessin, performance with Hissen sound group, Irish Museum Modern Art, as part of Carol Rama show, June 22nd.
Sound/text performance at Phonica 3, poetry/music event, 15 June.
Performance with Gorse literary journal for International Festival of Literature, May 27.
Performance with Hissen sound group, Lexicon, Dun Laoghaire, as part of Ben Readman exhibition Circadian, 28 April.
Performances (music and lecture) at Proposition - An Art of Ethics Symposium in the Burren College of Art, March 11.
2015
Performance in Ophelia Expo in Harlebeke, Flanders, Belgium, July 3rd, curated by Jonas Vansteenkiste.
Text as part of video (collaborative work) TOOLLAND ROLAND JOHANN BRENDA MARTIN PHILIP PUCK NICO & YOU BOOK LAUNCH, Karina Beumer, Sint Lucas, Antwerpen (BE)June 28th, curated by Karolien Chromiak, Dennis Ramaekers and Liesje de Laet.
The Artists, curated by Stanislaw Welbel, Galerie Zacheta, Warsaw, June 20.
Upcoming - performing in Vivienne Dick film Red Moon Rising, filming May 2015 -release later in the year.
All the Beast performance at Overstock performative lecture curated by Jennie Taylor in MART, Dublin, April 29th.
Platform, group show curated by Stef Van Bellingen (WARP), Oonagh Young Gallery, Dublin, April 10.
2014
Foaming at the Mouth, spoken word event, curated by Tracy Hanna and Emer Lynch, August 13, Stags Head, Dublin.
Stone Soup, group show with Basic Space and Ormston House, July, Limerick.
2013
Blackpool After Freud – performance and text with Mouth, in Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool, U.K., as part of symposium in relation to Zoe Beloff exhibition, 2nd November.
The Limit of the Object - performance and imagery for Lacan and Contemporary Art seminar, Ncad, 9th March.
Space of Appearance – event and exhibition with 'Art in the Contemporary World' and Vaari Claffey, The Joinery, 7th February.
2012
Lines of Drift - sound performance for Culture Night in Ncad Gallery, curated by Anne Kelly, 21st September.
Writer in Residence, representing Critical Bastards for Mary Conlon’s show in Ormston House as part of 6 Memos series, 12th-29th July, Limerick.
This Time Tomorrow I Sang three day solo show, sound installation/performance 28th to 30th June, the Joinery, Arbourhill.
Prelude to Nothing, sound performance as part of show curated by David Fagan, 29th of April, The Lab, Foley Street Dublin.
Selected Stories, Live score performed to film The Poorhouse Revisited by Michael Higgins, as well as written score for longer edit exhibited, Jan 18, The Joinery Gallery, Dublin, curated by Tadgh O’Sullivan.
2011
Live@8 Dublin, Exchange Temple Bar, sound performance, curated by Aine Philips and Vivienne Dick, 9th December.
Workshop and performance with Karlheinz Essel, with Dublin Soundlab, in Project Art Centre Dublin, October 22nd.
Radical Love II, performative sound paper on the work of Antonin Artaud, event curated by Joseph Noonan Ganley and Sam Keogh, September 13th-15th
Live@8 The Guesthouse, Cork, curated by Aine Philips, September 9th
Live @8, Trades Club Sligo, sound performance, show curated by Vivienne Dick, August 5th
Fine Art Graduate Show in National College of Art and Design, Thomas Street Dublin, June 13
The Open II – Sound Performance at art event Live@8, Bar 8 in Galway 30th of March.
2010
The Open I – Halfway There, Basic Space, Dublin, December 17.
Performance with E+S=B as part of Colin Crotty’s Gemeingeist, November 4, Goethe Institut, Dublin.
Performance at 161010 Video/sound event, The Joinery, 16th October.
The Sun and All its Eyes - paper and performance for Radical Love conference, August 21.
Experimental music performance with Aine O’Dwyer at Transient Constellations, 19th August, The Others, London.
A Word Against the Place - part of 474m2 3rd Year Sculpture exhibition, April 22nd, King’s Inn Street, Dublin.
2009
Experimental Music Performance at Elephant in the Room exhibition, IMOCA, August, Dublin.
Writing
The Roaming Edges,'Response to a Request' project run by Rebecca O'Dwyer 2017.
Writing on Denis McNulty's show 'I'm Getting Parts', Circa 2017.
Resort Revelations, article for VAI newsletter, Jan/Feb issue 2016.
Writing on Maria McKinney's Sire exhibition at the RHA Gallery, Circa, 2016.
Who Will Silence Them at Last?, commissioned prose piece for Resort Revelations residency program, Fingal County Council 2016.
The Skin Between us, art writing (on Alice Maher), Fallowmedia 2016.
In the Bird Temple, short story, Critical Bastards Issue 12 2016
All Stops to the Point, essay, Fallowmedia 2015.
Symptoms of the Subterranean - essay in Issue 4 of Gorse journal - September 2015.
Creatures of Habitat, piece of art-wrting in Colony magazine Issue 3
Editing, writing and illustration for Issue 11 and upcoming 12 of Critical Bastards.
'The Last of our Kind' published on Visual Verse website, October.
Essay for publication on Fix Festival, Catalyst Gallery, Belfast (will be published in 2015).
Edited audio issue 10 Critical Bastards September 2013.
Article in Cult magazine, Autumn edition 2013.
Editor for Issues 9 and 10 Critical Bastards magazine.
Articles in Issues 4-9 Critical Bastards magazine.
The Sun and All its Eyes, an essay for Radical Love I seminar 2010.
A Load of Blather, three essays on folklore included in this publication published by Nonsuch printing press 2008.
Recent Soundwork
Folly From This - Improvised musical performance based around Beckett poem 'What is the Word' with Dao, Centre For Creative Practices, Dublin, April 1, 2014.
Brian Conniffe, Suzanne Walsh, Diarmuid MacDiarmada - vinyl ep release on Lumberton Trading company (2013)
Sound contribution for Vivienne Dick film - The Irreducible Difference of the Other (2013). Shown in Irish Institute in Paris (2013) and ICA London (2014), Darklight Festival Dublin (2014).
Vocal contributions for Ku, Shroud of the Morrigan video game, Bitsmith Games, 2012.