My Story so far…

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Education/Awards

2024, 2018, 2016 Single Individual Artist Payment Award (SIAP) Arts Council for Northern Ireland (ACNI)
2023, June 2 x UU Graduate Awards -Bbeyond (Performance) Void Gallery
2023 June Master of Fine Art - Distinction, Ulster University
2022 June Alice Berger Hammerschlag Award, ACNI
2018, June First Steps to Teaching (& Associate Fellowship of HEA) Ulster University Belfast (UUB)
2017 June Ulster University Deans List
2017, July BA (Hons) Fine Art with 1st Class Honours, Ulster University
2017, July EDGE Excel Award, Ulster University
2017, June Long Listed RDS Visual Arts Awards, Royal Dublin Society
2017, Mar A Practical Guide to Curating, Node Centre, Berlin

Residencies/Projects

2025 Jan - Nov Collaborative Project with Tracy McCoey theme- Womanhood, Dromore/Castlewellan
2024, Oct Common Groundwork, Yinchuan, China
2023, Jun-Aug Urban Survival Kits (Erasmus Project Support), University of Atypical, Turkey
2022 Jul-Aug Bodyshining (European partners MOH, SMouTH, Elan, Animus) (Erasmus Project), University of Atypical, Italy
2020, Aug-Nov Intangible Selves, online workshop residency, Black Box/PS2, Online
2019 Mar - Aug Expanded Studio Project, Primary Studios, Nottingham
2017/18 Graduate Artist in Residence (Fine Art) Ulster University
2017, Sept 21-24 Boondocks III Performance Festival (BBeyond), Hanover, Germany

Exhibitions (Solo)

2024, Oct Making Time (New Commission), 2RA, Belfast
2024, Apr/May Making Connections, Void Art Centre, Derry
2019, Oct Cryptolaemus montrouzieri (installation), Tropical Ravine House, Belfast
2018, Mar 19-31 Cinderella Complex, Framewerk Gallery, Belfast
2017, June -August In Flux ‘Process and Duration’, Glass Box Gallery, UUB
2017, Jan 5-13 Collect and Connect, Pollen Studio, Belfast

Selected Exhibitions (Group)

2026 May Membership (Mental Health Art Festival NI, Bbeyond), Ulster University, Belfast
2025/26 Oct - May Source to Settlement, Enniskillen Castle
2025, Oct Confluence, Strule Arts Centre, Omagh
2025, Mar Exhibit A (Bbeyond), Newry City Library
2024, Sept-Oct Being Blue, Being Green (Shore Collective), Oriel Gallery, Antrim
2023, Oct - Nov The Art of Resistance, 2 Royal Avenue, Belfast
2023, Sept The Distilled Eye, Ulster University Gallery, Belfast
2023, Sept MFA Graduate Showcase, Engine Room Gallery, Belfast
2023, Sept Other World (Shore Collective), Iontas Centre, Castleblaney, ROI
2023, June MFA Degree Show, BSOA
2023, Jan The Green Room II, Catalyst Arts, Belfast
2022, May F[US]e, QSS Gallery, Belfast
2021, Dec Happenstance Pollen Studio, Belfast
2021, Nov The Presence of Absence, QSS Gallery, Belfast
2021, Jun/Jul The Amabie Project (curator Johanna Leech), Pollen Studio, Belfast
2021, May/Jun Remember, MMM#9 (curator Robert Martin), R-Space Gallery, Lisburn
2021, May Art-mutation (campaign with anna laclaque), Bedürfnisanstalt, Hamburg
2021, May Polyphony 21. MFA, QSS, Belfast
2020, May Homework, art in lockdown (online), PS2, Belfast
2020, Mar Arts FestArts For All, Belfast
2019, Sept Expanded Studio Project, Primary Studios, Nottingham
2019, Aug Expanded Studio Project 2019 (with Primary Studios, Nottingham), PS2, Belfast
2019, Sept Paper Gothic (Belfast Artists Paper Society), Framewerk Gallery, Belfast
2019, May/Jun Where You are lost, We are Sídhe (curator Moran Been Noon), Engage Art Studios, Galway
2019, Apr Tiny Pricks: Tweets, Textiles and Trump, Mule Gallery, San Francisco
2018, Feb The Odd Collection, Pollen Studio, Belfast
2018, Jun End of Year Show (Graduate Artist in Residence), Ulster University, Belfast
2018, May The Big Red Button (Belfast Artists Paper Society), Pollen Studio, Belfast
2017, Nov Performance Object Archive BIFPA 17 , Ulster University, Belfast
2017, Aug Liminal-Hydrangea Project Still Bunker 3 (Eastside Arts Festival), St Martin’s Church, Belfast
2017, Jun Belfast School of Art Degree Show, UUB
2016, Apr Sephour 06, Catalyst Arts, Belfast
2016, Apr UUSU Arts and Culture Society (Members Show), Goose Lane Gallery, Belfast
2016, Apr Raw (Catalyst Members Show), Catalyst Arts, Belfast
2015, Aug Dromore Cathedral Art Exhibition, Dromore, Co. Down
2014, Mar Inspire International Woman’s Day Exhibition, Titanic Quarter, Andrew’s Gallery, Belfast
2013, Mar Off the Cuff  Derry City of Culture Event, NWRC, Londonderry

Performance (Solo)

2025, Apr Balls!!! 1hr, 126 Gallery, Galway
2024, Oct Surveillance 1hr, Yinchuan, China
2024, Mar No Offence, But… 30 mins, Belfast International Festival of Performance Art 2024 (BIFPA)
2023, Mar Menopause Makeover 1.5hr, BIFPA 2023
2022, Oct Life, Love, Labour Beyond Skin 100 Project 1hr, Mount Stewart, Co Down
2020, Jan On The Way Bbeyond Live Project 1hr, Newry Town Hall, Co Down
2020, Jan Holding Love and Light  City of Light by Bronagh Lawson,  book launch 2hr, Irish Architectural Archive, Dublin
2019, May Cinderella Re;visited 1hr, Engage Art Studios, Galway
2018, Mar Cinderella Complex 2hr, Framewerk Gallery, Belfast
2017, Nov The Glass Slipper Belfast International Festival of Performance Art 45mins, Glass Box Gallery, BIFPA 17
2017, May/Jun In Flux ‘Process and Duration’ Socially interactive performance, Glass Box Gallery, UUB
2017, Jan Collect and Connect 45mins, Pollen Studio, Belfast
2016, Nov Penny for your Thoughts 2hrs, Foyer UUB, BIFPA 16
2016, Apr I Have A Voice 5 mins, Catalyst Arts, Belfast
2015, Oct 1 Tall, Model, Pretty, Place Performance with welded prop 15mins, Sephour 15, UUB
2015, Apr-May Mask 1,2, 3  performances 2-3hrs, Orpheus Building, UUB
2015, Mar Cenotaph performative reading of text written by Tony White (http://pieceofpaperpress.com/2015/04/13/on-the-old-bill/ )F15, Orpheus Building, UUB
2015, Feb Crocheting Matter in Time and Space 3 days, Orpheus Building, UUB

Performance (Group)

2025, Apr Cathartsis, NI Mental Health Arts Festival Launch, Stormont Building, Belfast
2025, Apr Belfast Exposed Art Tour, Belfast Photo Festival, Writer’s Square, Belfast
2021, Oct Corona Feeling (online), Galerie Kopplemann; Kuntswerk Nippe
2021, Sep Equinox Performance, Laganside, Belfast
2020, Sep Equinox Global Freedom Day (Bbeyond), Laganside, Belfast
2020, Jan On the Way, Bbeyond Live Project, Newry, Co Down
2019, Jul Voicing the Bridge Project (Bbeyond), Clady, Co. Tyrone
2017, Sept Day of Public Actions for Freedom and Democracy, Hanover, Germany
2016, Nov November Cumulator 11 artists/11 hours. Curator - James King, Void Gallery, Londonderry
2016, Sept Equinox to Equinox International performance event. BBeyond, Quayside, Belfast
2016, Sept Safety Knit with Alice Clark, Jayne Cherry and Anthea McWilliams, Culture Night, Belfast
2016, Sept September Cumulator 9 artists/9 hours. Curator - James King, Pollen Studio, Belfast
2015, Dec Murmurations Sound bath improvised performance, part of Bi-Annual FIX Festival , Pollen Studio, Belfast
2015 Oct Run to the Rock curator - Amanda Coogan, part of Belfast Arts Festival, Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast
2015, Mar Helge Meyer Workshop Presentation, part of the Belfast International Festival of Performance Art , Pollen Studio, Belfast

Curation

2024 Gallery Coordinator/curator, University of Atypical, Belfast
2015-2019 Curator/administrator, Goose Lane Gallery, Belfast
2017 - 2021 Monthly exhibitions at Pollen Studio and Gallery
2018, Oct-Nov Dance, I am by Anthea McWilliams, R-Space Gallery, Lisburn
2017, Nov Department of Justice Peace Wall Exhibition, Foyer, Ulster University

Reviews/Publications/Talks

2025, Nov Bbeyond Symposium Talk 50th Anniversary of Performance Art in Ireland, BSOA
2024, Oct Exploring Distinction Through Time- The MFA with Alice Maher, Dan Shipsides, Susan Connolly & Tim Millen, panel, BSOA 175 Anniversary, Ulster University, Belfast
2024 Overview, publication, BIFPA
2023, Sept NWRC and Void Arts Centre Creative Careers Day, Void Arts Centre, Derry
2022, Oct MFA Artist talk, Ulster University, Belfast
2021 In Conversation with Deirdre McKenna, #Right to create, panel, PS2/Black Moon
2021 Gallery Days, presenter Joe Lindsay, interview, ACNI at R-Space Gallery
2021 Remember , Materials Messages and Meanings, talk, R-Space gallery, Lisburn
2020 Emergency Index, publication, Ugly Duckling Press
2019 The Presence of Absence, Slavka Sverakova. review, Slavka Sverakova Wordpress
2019 The Odd Collection, Art Walks/Art Talks with Amanda Croft, talk, Pollen Studios, Belfast
2017 Irish Arts Review
2017 Artist Studios in Belfast, presenter Marianne O’Kane Boal, panel, NVTV
2017 Collapse the Box, presenter Mo McDevitt, interview, NVTV
2017 It’s All About Me, Moran Been Noon, review, Circa Art Magazine
2017 Annual Degree Show, review, Slavka Sverakova Wordpress

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