Profile

I am an artist, writer and educator based in Dublin, Ireland.

My arts practice is committed to exploring and responding to systemic power relations and inequalities through long-term collaborations with diverse individuals, groups and organisations. These processes are rooted in complex relational networks and typically accumulate over time through a series of public manifestations, including text-based, visual, performative and dialogical artworks that position the practice of listening centrally. Common to all work is an interrogation of and response to multiple power relations that are identified through the collaborative process, which to date, has included themes of injustice related to policing, housing, state run medical services, and class and gender inequality. Taking direction from the collaborative process and the lived experiences of those involved, emerging collaborative artworks have been presented in galleries, cultural institutions and public spaces, and staged in local, community-based sites with specific invited publics.

A core aspect of my practice is a commitment to supporting spaces of learning. I teach part-time at the National College of Art and Design (NCAD), where I’m programme leader of the MA/MFA Art and Social Action, and I regularly do talks, workshops and mentoring in diverse contexts. I’m also a persistent writer, often writing in conversation with others, my writing focusing on the complex relationality, labour and ethical challenges of collaborative arts practice.

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