Art-Making
I am currently working on a body of video and mixed media work, entitled Cloch: 42 words for stone, which engages with (disappearing, diasporic, and minor) languages and their landscapes as intertwined topographies. Together with related drawings and prints exploring orality, this project is unfolding in parallel with my hybrid book in progress, Between Language– A Love Song. In recent years, I have also worked on an experimental play, engaging with cultural belief systems and the limits of knowledge, and two lecture performances that challenge hierarchies in perceived cultural value in art. A further series of multi-media works on paper has engaged with cultural silences, withholding and expression in tandem with my cross-genre book, The Shape of Silence.
My artistic practice has encompassed installation, video, photography, performance, prints, and artist’s books, with solo and group exhibitions and performances in Ireland, the UK, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and the US. Venues include Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin; Aachener Kunstverein, Germany; 1430 Contemporary, Portland, US, Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork, Ireland; The Globe Gallery, Newcastle, UK; Mehrwert e.v., Aachen, Germany; Wexford Arts Center, Wexford, Ireland; Basement Gallery, Dundalk, Ireland; Art Hive, Cork, Ireland; Bilderhaus Bornemann Galerie, Germany; Outpost Venice, Italy; Lavitt’s Quay Gallery, Cork; and the Center for Contemporary Art and Culture, Portland, US. My artist’s books are held in the New York Public Library art collection.
Selected Recent Work
cloch: 42 words for stone
- 2024–, In progress.
- 2024
Untitled (If the stillness is volcanic)
Works on paper, 2022-2023.
- 2022
Braiding
Oregon Center for Contemporary Art, Portland
- November 2021
- 2021
The Unknown Future
Center for Contemporary Art and Culture, Portland
- 12 March 2020
- 2020
After Difference
Center for Contemporary Art and Culture, Portland
- 9 April 2020
- 2020
The Entangled Museum
1430 Contemporary, Portland
- 2019– Ongoing.
- 2019