2025

Cork City Council Exhibition

Cork City Hall Atrium, Anglesea St. Cork. July 17th - 22nd, 2025.

This exhibition was the result of my artwork Guide II Shapeshifter being purchased by the Cork City Council’s art collection. The piece was put on display in tandem with a reception for Cork City Council 2025 arts and funding recipients hosted by Lord Mayor Cllr Fergal Dennehy in the Cork City Hall Atrium.

A Tail of Two

MTU Crawford College of Art and Design BA (Honours) in Fine Art Degree Show Neither Here Nor There. June 6th - 12th, 2025.

The installation A tail of Two navigates the shifting boundaries between the human and the More-Than-Human World. Working across drawing, animation, and installation, this work explores the self and otherness through a lens of Irish folklore—guided by the Púca, a shapeshifting trickster spirit.

In my practice, the Púca is not merely a subject, but a method: a way of working that embraces transformation, chance, and the unknown. Drawing from archival footage of his infancy, I am is seen playing with his shadow as a double or animal other, my work considers the self as unfixed, formed by ongoing encounters with the other—both human and non-human.

These themes now echo in my large-scale drawings and stop motion animations. Using charcoal, he renders shadowy figures that act as guides. Shaped by mythic and ecological entanglements, each drawing is a threshold or a mirror, emerging intuitively through the act of mark-making, erasure, and discovery. The animations unfold as metamorphic journeys across empty terrains—creatures transforming in and out of form, mirroring shifts in state and being.

By reconnecting with the embodied gestures of my childhood and drawing from tales of the Púca, This body of work contemplates on ideas of ecological consciousness, the multiplicities of being and seeks to disrupt human-centred hierarchies through the perspective of the self/other as shapeshifter.

SPECIES / MAKE 2025

Group exhibition, MTU Gallery at 46 Grand Parade, Cork, as part of MAKE 2025: ART/INTERSPECIES Symposium. March 8th – March 28th. Pallas University of Applied Sciences, Tartu, Estonia until July, 2025.

The SPECIES exhibition in MTU Gallery at 46 Grand Parade, Cork, featured artworks which embody an interspecies ethos, which cross boundaries of plant/human, animal/human; which show empathy for our fellow non-human species. 

For this exhibition, I showed nine small-scale drawings entitled Púca Series. This series of drawings was inspired by still images taken from archival footage of my infancy, where I am seen taking on the imagined perspective of various non-human animals. Guided by the Púca, a shapeshifting trickster spirit, these drawings were made to reflect on mythic and ecological entanglements between humans and non-humans through the perspective of the self/other as a shapeshifter.

The exhibition travelled to the Pallas University of Applied Arts, Tartu, Estonia, and was displayed there until July, 2025. 

2024

THE TALE OF THE NORWAY SPRUCE AND THE BARK BEETLE – Ecological Crisis and Trauma

Group exhibition, 1111 Gallery, Budapest. August 31st – September 13th, 2024.

Starting from a garden, the international artists’ exhibition investigates the phenomenon of traumatic loss and disappearance of a well-known species, affecting local residents personally, as well as the problem of ecological change in general in a local, regional context. The research-based exhibition explores the complex ecological, horticultural and social issues related to the extinction of spruce trees with special emphasis to the relationship between human and more than human agency. The exhibiting artists’ research was supported by experts who gave a series of lectures, with examples such as new strategies for tree replacement, urban opportunities for creating functioning ecosystems. For the exhibition, I showed a series of three mixed-media paintings on canvas, created as a personal response to the cutting down of deceased pine trees on Gellért Hill. The short film In the Quiet was made in collaboration with Marta Massa and Yeasir Arafat, who recorded me, my studio, and the places I was researching in relation to the work I was making while living in Budapest. Shown beside my paintings, the film tells a story in the context of the pine trees and of the reciprocity between the human body and the more-than-human world. By presenting the viewer with interactions between human and non-human bodies in public spaces and places, this collaboration expands on the themes of the show.

TWISTER

Group exhibition, MaMü Galéria, Budapest. May 3rd – May 23rd, 2024.

For this exhibition, I presented a series of three mixed-media paintings on canvas, created as a personal response to the cutting down of deceased pine trees on Gellért Hill. In these works, I explore the complex ecological, horticultural, and social issues surrounding the decline of spruce trees in Budapest, with particular emphasis on the relationship between human and more-than-human agency. Through the process of painting, I reflect on my own relationship to the trees and the spaces they once inhabited, seeking to empathise with how their disappearance has affected local residents personally, as well as the broader challenges of ecological change within a regional context.