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Education

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

Solo Exhibitions

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

Warp Spasm,
Laneway Gallery, Cork, IE.
May 2023 

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

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

Windows,
Notes to Cork, Cork, IE.
April 2021.

Selected Group Exhibitions

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

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

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

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

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

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

Rea! Arte,
Milan, IT.
October 2020.

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

Publications

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

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

Residencies, Awards, Grants

Studio Residency,
El Sür, Tlalpan, Mexico City, MX.
(upcoming October 2023)

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

Studio Residency,
Fish Factory, Stöðvarfjörður, IS.
April 2023.

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

Studio Residency,
Uillinn West Cork Arts, Skibbereen, IE.
September 2022

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

Studio Residency,
PADA Studios, Lisbon, PT.
February 2022

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

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

Agility Award,
Arts Council Ireland, IE.
June 2021.

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

126 Artist-Run Gallery, #BackingCreativity Winner, IE.
November 2020.

Graduate Studio Residency,
Sample-Studios, Cork, IE.
October 2020 - June 2021.  

Press

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: 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’