As Much As I Wouldn't Like To

As much as I wouldn’t like to was born from a childhood memory of my parents covering my eyes during explicit scenes in movies. This started a period of research into the normalisation, and sexualisation of violence against women in media and pop culture where the dominant, aggressive male is romanticised, and male sexual desire is prioritised 😠😠😠

This project consists of paintings, drawings, and soft sculptures that focus on unwanted interactions that come from a place of unjust entitlement and desire. Interactions that embody starkly opposing emotions. The work is deceptively playful, and the figures are direct depictions of moments of unwelcome touch. These moments lure the viewer, using colours and textures that seduce and tempt whilst simultaneously contradicting their appearance with the narrative they create.

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spills

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My practice moves between research, speculative storytelling, and material exploration. Working through drawing, moving image, sculpture, and primarily textile installations, I explore how histories of place, climate, and human intervention reverberate in the present and question dominant narratives of space and how we relate to shifting environments.

My research is both archival and field-based, collecting stories, images, and fragments that trace the layered realities of lived experience. These are combined with visual references ranging from early artworks to contemporary media, creating a vocabulary that merges cultural history with the present moment.

My work attempts to balance play and critique by taking images, abstracting, translating, and transforming them, and then using them to retell stories. I use colour, texture, and pattern as tools to translate into visual form, developing abstract languages that give shape to forces often felt but not easily seen. Alongside my studio practice, I facilitate a variety of textile based workshops in Ireland and the Netherlands as a means of exchange and community connection.

Exhibitions

2025
Halfway Point
Group Show
2025
Mythologies Of The Personal and The Land
Westmeath Artists Award Exhibition
2025
Language(s)
Group Show
2024
Big Trouble in Little Katendrecht
Group Show
2023
End of Year Ball
Second Edition, Group Show
2023
Counterbodies: Fourth Edition
Group Show
2023
The Tiny Art Gallery #3
Group Show
2022
End Of year Ball
First Edition, Group Show
2022
One The Horizon
Group Show
2022
Al Fools
Group Show
2022
Touch Base
Group Show
2022
you breath differently down here
Group Show
2021
RDS Visual Arts Awards
Group Show
2021
First Day Gallery
Group Show
2021
Not Finals
Group show
2020
ArtEZ BEAR
Summershow Magazine
2020
Nodder
Group publication in collaboration with Radboud University
2019
White Noise
Group Show

Education

2019 - 2020
Fine Art: Base for Experiment, Art & Research
ArtEZ University of the Arts, Arnhem, The Netherlands
2021 - 2022
Clancy Quay, Superprojects and Project Arts Centre Professional Development Programme.
2024-2025
Masters of Interior Architecture and Research Design
Piet Zwart Instituut, Rotterdam
2017 - 2021
BA (Hons) in Fine Art (International) with Critical Cultures, First Class Honours
National College of Art and Design, Dublin

Awards

2024
Creative Ireland Westmeath Community Grant
2022
Recipient of Making & Momentum Young Artist Grant.
2022
Recipient of the Arts Council Agility Award.

Featured

2022
Moate artist is tipped as "one to watch" in 2022
The Westmeath Independent
2021
Envisioning: RDS Visual Art Awards
Totally Dublin
2021
Envisioning: RDS Visual Art Awards
The Outpost
2021
New Generation Gallery feature
Irish Arts Review