Upcoming / recent exhibitions
- Whitstable Biennale: I installed I am the Watchtower for the opening weekend
- It's not you, it's me: film screening Thursday 1 July moving image studio, RCA, Battersea
- Bill-bored Billboard-sized projection of video still:Erin Means Ireland across London in the run up to the elections.
- SHOW ONE RCA: 28 May – 6 June, Final MA Show at the Royal College of Art
I am an Irish-American artist, living and working in London. My non-linear, narrative based videos explore personal experience (the individual's) with a transpersonal (collective or historical) message. I often approach the theme of identity because the act of self-identification constantly throws one into crisis, because it requires one to differentiate oneself from others. I have just completed my MA (Fine Art) at the Royal College of Art.
1978 Born Oswego, NY USA
Lives and works in London, UK
Education
- 2008-2010 MA Royal College of Art, London
- 2008 BA(hons) Camberwell College of Arts, London
- 1999-2008 (life experience), London
- 1997-1999 SUNY Oswego, Oswego NY (partially completed BFA)
Exhibitions, events & projects
2010
- Whitstable Biennale, Whitstable, UK
- Show One, RCA Galleries, London, UK
- Bill Bored (event) London, UK
- RCA printmaking group show, Cafe Gallery, London, UK
- Architectural Playgrounds, Restless - Ron Arad, Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK
2009
- RCA Secret Show, Royal College of Art, London, UK
- RETREAT, Hockney Gallery, London, UK
- CHAOS, G.A.S. Station, Berlin, DE
- Personally Political: Drawing (part 2), Arthouse Tacheles, Berlin, DE
- Fault Line: Art in the Age of Anxiety,The Nunnery, London UK
- Open Studios, Bow Arts Trust, London UK
- Artworks Open,Barbican Arts Group Trust, London UK
- space ______ reverie, Cafe Gallery, London, UK
- Work in progress show, Royal College of Art, London, UK
2008
- RCA Secret Show, Royal College of Art, London, UK
- Man Photography Prize, Royal College of Art, London, UK
- Oslo Screen Festival, Cinematheque, Oslo, Norway
- Unnatural Histories,The Nunnery, London UK
- Open Studios, Bow Arts Trust, London UK
- Relocating Absence, Elevator Gallery, London UK
- Fresh Impressions: Contemporary Letterpress Printing, Hoffman Gallery, Portland OR, USA
- Gilchrist Fisher Award 2008, Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London, UK
2007
- The London Group Open 2007 Menier Gallery, London, UK
- artVaults 2007: Season 3 Bargate Monument Gallery, Southampton, UK
- Everyday, An empty office space, London, UK
- "Alley-Room" (Collaborative Installation/ event with The Alley Cats), Shorditch, London, UK
- "The Momentary Awareness of Being Part of Something Vast and the Sudden Recollection of Having No Control"(installation), Shortlisted, Nexus building, Manchester, London, UK
- "Tinker's House" (collaborative installation with Arlette Ess) for London's Architecture Foundation
2006
- Peace Camp, Brick Lane Gallery, London, UK
- Now or Neverland, The Residence Gallery, London, UK
- Love Hate, Clerkenwell House of Detention, London, UK
- Artskoolgozsouth, Galeria do Palacio, Porto, Portugal
- Artskoolgozsouth, Galerie Artcore, Paris, France
- "Cheap Memorial" (Collaborative installation with Arlette Ess), Bank of England, London, UK
Awards
- 2008 Mann Photography Prize- Shortlisted artist
- Gilchrist Fisher Award 2008 - Shortlisted artist
- Studio residency with the 5th Collective in association with Gallery Yujiro
- 2007 D&AD Global Student Award - Environmental Design
Teaching
2010, Guest Lecturer BA, Camberwell College of Arts
2010, Guest Lecturer, Fine Art, Norwich College of Art and Design
2008, Guest Lecturer, Web Design, MA Graphic Design, Camberwell College of Arts
more specifically
Tuesday 11:37am; sitting in my bathrobe, already two cups of coffee, toast, three hours of looking at videos on YouTube, LUX; a position of privilege: I am fortunate to get to do what I do. I've been an artist my whole life, but it took me twenty-six years, a career as a web developer, even an attempt to become a marine biologist, to conjure the courage to pursue what it is I really want to... I haven't stopped since trying to develop, unravel, and yet build a body of work that examines the nature of observation and experience. I am London based Irish-American (first generation) so I have this "mixed" perspective as a foreigner : the European culture my father raised us with in the States and now my American one in England. I like how Vilém Flusser wrote, "A home is the foundation of all consciousness because it permits us to perceive the world."
