My practice encompasses installation, sculpture, photography, and video. I explore the interconnectedness of all things through ecologies, future speculations, and memory and history. My work often incorporates elements from the natural world, creating imaginary environments, assemblages, sculpture, and artist books that invite viewers to contemplate history from a different perspective or to imagine resilient futures for all beings, human and beyond. I work with multiple media, expressing my excavations through imaginary gardens and using transferred images and stitching on paper to investigate migration and memory in artist books.
As contemporary life distances us from our bodies and the world around us, my practice is intentionally embodied and invites viewers into the work through their senses, intuitions, and other non-rational entry points. Recent work includes decolonised cartographies, as I deepen my work to decenter the human and engage the entangled and non-binary, along with an orientation to ‘making with’ the environment and the planetary. Using embodied practices of repair and resistance, including a project on post-colonial history focusing on gaps and erasures of Irish women, I infuse my work with a sense of resistance and what’s possible.
Bio
Born in Dublin, Ireland, I live and work in New Haven, CT, US and Ireland. I hold a B.S. from Trinity College, Dublin, a Masters from Brandeis University, and in 2024, I completed an MFA at the School for Visual Arts in New York. I recently participated in artists residencies at I-Park (E. Haddam, CT), Cill Rialaig (Ballinskelligs, Co. Kerry, Ireland), and as a recipient of the Artist’s Resource Trust Fellowship at the Vermont Studio Center (Johnson, VT).
My work has been exhibited nationally and internationally in group exhibits including at DAAD Gallery (Berlin, Germany) with The Racial Imaginary Institute, The Invisible Dog Art Center (Brooklyn, NY), Hello Project Space (Chinatown, New York City), Ely Center of Contemporary Art (New Haven, CT), 63 audubon, (New Haven, CT), Candid Arts Trust (London), Wexford Arts Centre (Ireland), Platform Space (Belfast, Northern Ireland), Vent Space (Tallinn, Estonia), ARTO6870 (Greenwich, CT and Gardiner, NY), Mother-In-Law’s Gallery and Grounds (Germantown, NY), and in a two-person exhibit at City Gallery (New Haven, CT).
My curatorial practice is embedded in my work as an artist. Curation offers invaluable opportunities to work with galleries, community spaces, and other artists to consider how works in various media can amplify contemporary themes and explorations. I have curated several exhibits including “where is the human in this place” and “Translating from the Edges” at the Ely Center of Contemporary Art (New Haven, CT) and “Imaginaries of Diasporic Self” at The Stairwell Space (Bridgeport, CT).
With over 30 years of experience in the nonprofit sector, my artistic endeavors are deeply informed by my commitment to community, equity, and social justice.
