I am an artist and filmmaker working with moving image, digital technology and sculptural installation, to explore the sacred within virtuality. Playfulness and the gilded camp of Catholic imagery are used as tools to confront complex feelings around my religious upbringing, considering the internet as a space to prototype alternative identities and systems of belief.
I work with the virtual as a digital zone but also 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. My video installations take the loneliness of purgatory and imbue it with the messy, sweaty, sweet abyss of the dancefloor.
Stained-glass is used as an extension of the screen, like a frame for my films. Found footage and digital renderings are collaged onto filmed scenarios. Recurring themes in my practice include the sacred, screens, liminality, internet echo chambers, memeification, social media, Irish heritage, family dynamics, guilt and shame.
Recent residencies include Dos Mares (Marseille), Beyond Boundaries (BJCEM, Fabbrica del Vapore, UK New Artists, Milan), and New Artist Collective (UK New Artists, Lincoln). Recent exhibitions include 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) and 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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Awards & Residencies
Dos Mares, Marseille, 2024.
Developing Your Creative Practice Grant - Arts Council England, 2023-24.
Beyond Boundaries - BJCEM, Fabbrica del Vapore, UK New Artists, Milan, 2024.
New Artist Collective - UK New Artists Lincoln, 2022-23.
National Lottery Project Grant - Arts Council England, 2022.
hotel generation - 1 of 4 selected artists - arebyte Gallery, London, 2020.
The Art House Graduate Residency - Wakefield, February 2020.
Two Queens Summer School Residency - Leicester, August 2017.
Press & Writing
Solo Shows
2022
iConfess - Assembly House, Leeds.
Group Shows
2024
God Willing - Shipton Gallery, London.
The Cloak of St Brigid - South Leeds Art Gallery, Leeds.
Touch Me (I’m Trying) - serf, Leeds.
Festival PAC (Provence Art Contemporain) - Dos Mares, Marseille.
Relation de Voyage Screening Programme - SLQS Gallery, London.
Beyond Boundaries - Fabbrica del Vapore, Milan.
2023
Leeds Artists Show - Leeds Art Gallery.
I Was Baptised in Fortnite - School of the Damned X West, Antwerp Mansion, Manchester.
Soft Egg, Don’t Wear It - The Salthouse, Lincoln.
2022
Taking Place - UK New Artists, Lincoln.
Put Your Feet Up - Hyde Park Art Club, Leeds.
2021
Dataism Confessional - arebyte on Screen, online.
2020
Cough Like Nobody’s Watching - Anharmonic Film Festival, online.
Graduate Residency Showcase - The Art House, Wakefield.
2019
Real Life is Much Stranger - Freehold Projects, Leeds.
Free Range Shows - Truman Brewery, London.
Cut the Mustard - University of Leeds Undergraduate Degree Show - University of Leeds.
Spread the Mustard - Freehold Projects, Leeds.
This is a gift to - The Brunswick, Leeds.
Busy Hands - Freehold Artist Film Screening, Leeds.
Charity Shop Open - Bad Video Art Festival, Moscow, Russia.
Ones to Watch - Sunny Bank Mills, Farsley.
Letters of Love - Hyde Park Book Club, Leeds.
2018
1 Like = 1 Prayer - University of Leeds, Leeds.
Life's a Beach and Then You Die - Leeds Big Screen, Millennium Square.
Certified, Fresh, Free-Range Art - Barcelona Loop Cityscreen Festival, La Cera 13, Barcelona.
Life's a Beach and Then You Die - SiCinéma Film Festival, Café des Images Cinéma, Caen.
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.
Education
2024- Art & Science MA, die Angewandte, Vienna
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