EDUCATION
2018 – 21 PhD Candidate, Ulster University
2010 MA Art in Public, Ulster University
2003 BA HON.s Fine and Applied Arts, Ulster University
EMPLOYMENT
2012/18 Various roles Bedford Creative Arts, I joined BCA for one year as their assistant curator producer. After this initial year I worked with them intermittently as an associate producer on specific projects, as a marketing associate and as programme manager.
EXHIBITIONS / PROJECTS
2019 Grounding, Instigator of a week-long alternative art school/residency with Bernardine Carroll and Caelan Bristow, DeWett House, Cloughjordan
2019 Vibrant Matter, Group show, St Josephs Church Sailortown, Household Belfast & NI Science Festival, Belfast
2018 Sometimes My Smile Is A Grimace, limited edition print & badges, published by Made With Maud, Rotterdam
2018 Clubhouse Cookbook, Clubhouse, Bedford Creative Arts, Queen’s Park, Bedford
2018 Tea Alchemy, with Unilever Tea Blender Ryan Clifford, Bedford Creative Arts, Bedford
2017 Victoria Botany Stroll, with botanist Manos Bazanis, Victoria Square Project, Athens
2017 Grounding, Instigator of a week-long alternative art school with Bernardine Carroll and Paul Bailey, Ormston House, Limerick
2016 I Left My Senses in I.Drosopoulou, 2 month residency and solo show, Snehta, Athens
2016 The Time Machine by H.G.Wells Abridged, Group show, Cathedral Studios, Belfast
2016 Prisoner’s Cinema, PS Squared, Belfast
2016 Metonymic Time Machine – An Archive of the Invention, NNContemporary Project Space, Northampton
2014/15 Eastern Approaches, Group show, Museum of St Albans
2013/14 August Strindberg Abridged, Signal to Noise*, Gallery Niklas Belenius, Group show curated by Stefanie Hessler, Stockholm
2013 Paradigm Drift, Bedford Creative Arts, various locations in Bedford
2012/13 Odourific Odyssey, Abridged 0-28 Once A Railroad
2012 ExperiMENTAL, Catalyst Arts Members Show, Belfast
2012 /13 (Touring) Paper Jam #2, Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich | Le Commissariat at Treize, Paris | marke.6 – gallery of Bauhaus-Universität Weimar| Ygrec, Paris | Messy Shop, Bangkok | Piano Nobile, Geneva
2011 Metonymic Time Machine – Protoype #1, Fix 11 Live Art Festival, Catalyst Arts, Phone box on corner of Queen Street, Belfast
2011 Howser’s Law, PS Squared, Belfast
2011 “We’ll Build a House (we’re good at that), as part of Sociable Science artist collective, Werkatelier Galerie, Den Helder
2011 Just Keep Shopping (everythingwillbeokay), as part of Sociable Science artist collective, Jenseits des Wachstums?! Beyond Growth Congress, Technische Universitat, Berlin
2010 Just Keep Shopping (everythingwillbeokay), as part of Sociable Science artist collective, Art Trail 2010, Basement Project Space, Cork City
2010 Parfum Maison de Beton, Beton Salon, Paris
2010 Was ist die Geschichte von diesem Ort?/What is the history of this place?, Pergamentergasse 3, Erfurt
2010 Scent of A Layman, Re:Public, Temple Bar Gallery & Studios, Dublin
2010 S.R.I.L. (Smell Reminiscence & Inquiry Lab) – Smell Association Denominator, North St./Bridge St., Belfast
2009 S.R.I.L. at Palm House Botanic Gardens & Bookfinders Café ongoing process based project, Belfast
2009 S.R.I.L. / European Smellscape, Den Helder
GRANTS
2016/17 Arts Council Northern Ireland SIAP funding for self arranged residency in Athens
2015/16 Arts Council England Grants for the Arts for R & D of Metonymic Time Machine
2011/12 Arts Council Northern Ireland SIAP funding for Odourific Odyssey
2011 British Council sponsorship for Sociable Science ‘Just Keep Shopping (everythingwillbeokay)’ ,Jenseits des Wachstums Congress, Berlin
2010 Garfield Weston Trust, research grant
2006 British Council youth funding for Art Tourist, open studios, Belfast
PUBLICATIONS
2011 Entrophy: Garbage and Art, Bauhaus University Weimar
2010 Swimming Backwards, MFA Program Public Art and New Artistic Strategies, Faculty of Art and Design, Bauhaus University Weimar
2010 Art and urban city space – art and commemoration, Stadtkunst Kunststadt Nr. 57, Publisher: Office for Public Art Berlin
2006 25/25, celebrating the 25th anniversary of The Belfast Print Workshop, Belfast