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Praxis: The Artists’ Union of Ireland
Secretary, 2023-2025.

Education

BA (Hons) Intermedia Art (1.1)
Edinburgh College of Art, The University of Edinburgh, UK.
2019

Commissions 

Wiff Waff is Playing at My Gaff,
Crawford Art Gallery, IE.
2024.

Winter Sun,
National Sculpture Factory, Cork City Council, IE.
2024.

Commission Award,
Cork International Film Festival, IE.
2021.

Public Commission for billboards,
Notes to Cork, IE.
2021.

Solo Exhibitions

Forthcoming Solo Show,
Sirius Arts Centre, IE.
2027.

Forthcoming Solo Show,
36 Lime Street, Newcastle, UK.
2026.

Awaken, Sleeping Heart,
El Sur, Mexico City, MX.
2023.

The Immeasurable Grief of the Prawn,
Generator Projects, Dundee, UK.
2023 

Warp Spasm,
Laneway Gallery, Cork, IE.
2023 

Brain Worms: Redux,
126 Gallery, Galway, IE.
2021.

Brain Worms,
Lord Mayor’s Pavilion, Cork, IE.
2021.

Selected Group Exhibitions

A Camel is a Horse Designed by a Committee,
with The Glue Factory.
The Courthouse Gallery, Clare, IE.
2023.

In Our Own Image: The Rise,
D-Light Studios, Photo Museum Ireland, Dublin, IE.
2022.

The Irish Contemporaries,
Contemporary Irish Arts Centre, Los Angeles, USA.
2022.

Residency: 031,
PADA Studios, Lisbon, PT.
2022.

In Cahoots with the Earth,
A4 Sounds, Dublin, IE.
2021.

Culture Night,
First Day Gallery x Guinness Storehouse, Dublin, IE.
2021.

Rea! Arte,
Milan, IT.
2020.

Playground,
West Barn Arts, Dunbar, UK.
2018.

Residencies 

Mustarinda, Hyrynsalmi, FI.
2025

Residency Unlimited, Brooklyn. USA.
2024

Casa Lü, Mexico City, MX.
2023.

Fish Factory, Stöðvarfjörður, IS.
2023. 

Uillinn West Cork Arts, Skibbereen, IE.
2022

PADA Studios, Lisbon, PT.
2022

Sample-Studios, Cork, IE.
2020 - 2021.  

Awards and Grants

Individual Artist Bursary,
Cork City Council, IE.
2025.

Visual Arts Bursary Award,
Arts Council Ireland, IE.
2024.

Golden Fleece Award (shortlisted)
2024

Project Scheme Funding,
Cork City Council, IE. 
2024.

Jane Anne Rothwell Award,
Cork Midsummer Festival, IE.
2023.

Visual Arts Bursary Award,
Arts Council Ireland, IE.
2023.

Culture Moves Europe Grant,
Creative Europe, EU.
2023.

Visual Arts Bursary Award,
Arts Council Ireland, IE.
2022.

Visual Arts Bursary Award,
Arts Council Ireland, IE.
2021.

Agility Award,
Arts Council Ireland, IE.
2021.

Individual Artist Bursary,
Cork City Council, IE.
2021.

Screenings

The Immeasurable Grief of the Prawn

• Cork International Film Festival, IE. 2023
  
• Dublin Independent Film Festival, IE. ‘Best Experimental Short’ winner.  2023.
• Sirius Arts Centre, Cobh, IE. 2024.

Publications

Essay ‘Towards a Chaotic Utopia’,
Emerge Issue 3, IE.
2021.

Zine ‘This is You’,
Whorling, UK.
2020.

Events

Radio Solstice,
Cork Midsummer Festival, IE.
2024.

Press

2024: The Guardian ‘Money for nothing: is universal basic income about to transform society?‘.
2024: Lyric FM: Culture File ‘Wiff-Waff Pow-Wow’.
2024: Cork Independent, ‘Up Fur A Game?’.
2023: UK Independent ‘Get £1600 a month to do ‘nothing’ – welcome to an AI future where nobody works‘.
2023: NBC News ‘She ditched her day job to pursue her art with a basic income grant from Ireland’.
2023: Al Jazeera ‘The Stream: Will universal basic income become mainstream?’
2023: The Herald ‘Galleries: Now you sea it - Marine life and fakery in the frame’.
2023: Rekto:verso ‘A Basic Income for Artists: The Irish Case’, by Joan Somers Donnelly.
2022: The Irish Times ‘Artists wait as basic income scheme further delayed’.
2021: RTÉ Nationwide, 12th May 2021, special programme on street art in Cork.
2021: The Evening Echo, ‘Cork artist is on cloud nine with first solo exhibition at Fitzgerald Park’