I work predominantly in video, sculpture and installation, usually about the internet, religion, and my family. I use stained glass as an extension of the screen, like a frame for my films. My current interests are the world of post-truth online, the echo-chambers of communities based around a set of beliefs, and the effect on identity when these subjective truths come into conflict.
I recently
I work predominantly in video, sculpture and installation, usually about the internet, religion, and my family. I use stained glass as an extension of the screen, like a frame for my films. My current interests are the world of post-truth online, the echo-chambers of communities based around a set of beliefs, and the effect on identity when these subjective truths come into conflict.
I recently took part in arebyte's 'hotel generation', and also completed a graduate residency at The Art House in Wakefield.
My work is concerned with the antagonism between the internet and religion. I collide conflicting belief systems, using the humour of my experiences growing up in a large Irish Catholic family to question the underlying power at play in both domestic and digital settings.
Awards & Residencies
hotel generation - 1 of 4 selected artists - arebyte Gallery, London, 2020.
The Art House Graduate Residency - Wakefield, February 2020.
Best Collective Award - Free Range Shows, London, July 2019.
Two Queens Summer School Residency - Culminating in exhibition Eh?, Leicester, August 2017.
Solo Shows
iConfess - ACE funded exhibition (upcoming) - Assembly House, Leeds, June 2022
Group Shows
2021
hotel generation X arebyte on Screen - online.
2020
The Art House Graduate Residency Showcase - Wakefield.
2019
Real Life is Much Stranger - Freehold Projects.
Free Range Shows - Truman Brewery.
Cut the Mustard - University of Leeds Undergraduate Degree Show - University of Leeds.
Spread the Mustard - Freehold Projects.
This is a gift to - The Brunswick, Leeds.
Ones to Watch - Sunny Bank Mills, Farsley.
Letters of Love - Hyde Park Book Club, Leeds.
2018
1 Like = 1 Prayer - University of Leeds, Leeds.
Certified, Fresh, Free-Range Art - Part of Barcelona Loop Cityscreen Festival, La Cera 13, Barcelona.
Wish you were here - University of Leeds, Leeds.
Space is the Place - Atelier Hyph, Marseille.
Uncommon Ground - Friche Belle de Mai, Marseille.
2017
Eh? - Two Queens, Leicester.
Finding Both Your Hands - Assembly House, Leeds.
Personal Space - Art Hostel, Leeds.
Film Screenings
‘Cough Like Nobody’s Watching’ - Anharmonic Film Festival, online, August 2020.
‘Busy Hands’ - Freehold Artist Film Screening - ‘Becoming’, Leeds, April 2019.
‘Charity Shop Open’ - Selected for Bad Video Art Festival, Moscow, Russia, March 2019.
'Life's a Beach and Then You Die' - Leeds Big Screen, Millennium Square, daily throughout December 2018, and selected for SiCinéma Film Festival at Café des Images Cinéma, Caen, France, May 2018.
Education
2015-19 1st class BA Hons Fine Art with History of Art, University of Leeds
2017-18 Erasmus+ exchange year, École supérieure des beaux-arts de Marseille
2014-15 Distinction in Foundation in Art and Design, De Montfort University
