Ronnie Danaher is an artist and filmmaker working with moving image, digital technology and sculptural installations to explore virtuality and the sacred. Playfulness and the gilded camp of Catholic imagery are used to confront complex feelings around a religious upbringing, considering the potential to construct new identities, belief systems, and perceptions of reality online. 

Her work uses the virtual in a digital sense but also in an imagined, liminal one, where the in-between is celebrated as a place of power.  The slippery, intangible, indefinability of this space acts as a queer form of refusal to be easily defined, or to function in a way that is expected. Her video installations take the loneliness of purgatory and imbue it with the messy, sweaty, sweet abyss of the dancefloor.

Films collaging found footage, digital renderings are filmed scenarios are encased in stained-glass frames, as an extension of the screen. Recurring themes include the sacred, screens, liminality, internet echo chambers, memeification, social media, Irish heritage, family dynamics, guilt and shame.

Recent residencies and awards include CSAV with Ed Atkins (Como), Dos Mares (Marseille), Beyond Boundaries (BJCEM, Fabbrica del Vapore, UK New Artists, Milan), New Artist Collective (UK New Artists, Lincoln), Hotel Generation (arebyte, London), and from Arts Council, DYCP, and a Project Grant for solo show iConfess. Recent exhibitions include Mediterranea 20 Biennale (BJCEM, GO!2025, UK New Artists, Nova Gorica/Gorizia), God Willing (Shipton Gallery, London), Touch Me, I’m Trying (serf, Leeds), Festival Provence Art Contemporain (Dos Mares, Marseille), Relation de Voyage (SLQS Gallery, London), Leeds Artists Show (Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds), and I Was Baptised in Fortnite (School of the Damned X West, Antwerp Mansion, Manchester).

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Instagram: @ronniedanaher