I have a BA in Fine Art and a MA Art in Public, and have had shows at home and abroad, creating and commissioning art that has tried to think about the world and society. When the doubt set in and I felt this wasn't really enough, that maybe art wasn't enough, I put everything aside and set off on a sensory and social journey.
Art is hard to properly abandon though, so after a year and a half of floods and snowscapes and cyclones and constant earthquakes, art re-surfaced while I was working in a Nepali camp for Internally Displaced Persons. And it kept popping up through the earthquake murals in Kathmandu, as the creative led humanitarian responses, and as the cultural resilience that kept communities strong through their hardest times.
So I am an artist and a writer. I really love working with others, and collaborate with my friends under a number of guises. I try to be a humanitarian even when I am not in a disaster zone, and I am glad there is art in the world.
Art is hard to properly abandon though, so after a year and a half of floods and snowscapes and cyclones and constant earthquakes, art re-surfaced while I was working in a Nepali camp for Internally Displaced Persons. And it kept popping up through the earthquake murals in Kathmandu, as the creative led humanitarian responses, and as the cultural resilience that kept communities strong through their hardest times.
So I am an artist and a writer. I really love working with others, and collaborate with my friends under a number of guises. I try to be a humanitarian even when I am not in a disaster zone, and I am glad there is art in the world.
Upcoming Kathmandu Artist Residency
Research and production residency with Sattya , Nepal.
Sept 2016 Jan Has Never Been To Limerick
Sociable Non-Science collective project.
March 2016 - Present I.T. H.U.R.T.T.S
Interdisciplinary arts/science project about the chronic pain. Initiated though Health Futures Research Lab at UL.
August - October 2015 Project Joy
Creative program in IDP (Internally Displaced Persons) Camps in Nepal in Partnership with All Hands Disaster Response and Sattya.
August - October 2015 Bode IDP Camp Cinema
A cinema project in an IDP (Internally Displaced Persons) Camp in Nepal with All Hands and Bato Ko Cinema/Sattya.
October 2015 Kite Flying in Halchowk
Kite-flying ceremony to mark the completion of 50 transitional homes for a displaced community in Nepal.
July 2011 We'll Build You A House, We're Good At That
Temporary public art project by the Sociable Science Collective in Den Helder, Holland
June 2011 Babylon Kulturelles Ubersetzungsburo/Babylon Cultural Translation Agency
Participatory live Intervention, commissioned by NGBK Berlin and the Berlin Underground.
Sept 2010 - May 2011 Just Keep Shopping (everything will be okay)
Series of socially engaged projects with the Sociable Science Collective. Appeared in Cork Art Trail; Live Mart, Dublin; Beyond Growth Congress, Berlin.
March 2010 - March 2011 Public Facilities
Series of temporary public art interventions. Undertaken in Belfast, Dublin and Manchester, as part of Re:Public Exhibition in Temple Bar Gallery & Studios, Dublin an Hazard Live Art Festival, Manchester.
June 2009 The Embassy
Socially engaged participatory project with Catalyst Arts Gallery in Belfast about those from the south living in the north.
June - Aug 2009 Travelfreetravel
Transatlantic socially engaged project, bridging Limerick City Gallery of Art; The Other Gallery at the Banff, Centre, Canada and Oxegen Art Centre, Nelson, Canada. Collaboration with Candadian artist Maggie Shirley
December 2008 The Ditto Dance Project
Participatory dance event in Daghdha Dance Space, Limerick. Commissioned as part of Excursions Performance Festival and featuring the work of contemporary dance artists Ailish Claffey and Frej Tiljander.
Curatorial/Commissioning
Sept 2012 - June 2014 Public Art Manager, Galway County Council
Curating and commissioning a number of socially engaged projects, incuding:
IGNITE Galway coordinator and working group member for this Disability Arts Commissioning Program, in partnership with four local authorities, the Arts Council, ADI (Arts and Disability Ireland), and the British Council.
Humanitarian
Disaster response worker with american NGO All Hands in Detroit, Vanuatu and Nepal. This work involved muck and gut work in food damaged homes, moving rubble from collapsed homes, program development, relationship management, delivering training, communications, humanitarian story-telling and community engagement.
Research and production residency with Sattya , Nepal.
Sept 2016 Jan Has Never Been To Limerick
Sociable Non-Science collective project.
March 2016 - Present I.T. H.U.R.T.T.S
Interdisciplinary arts/science project about the chronic pain. Initiated though Health Futures Research Lab at UL.
August - October 2015 Project Joy
Creative program in IDP (Internally Displaced Persons) Camps in Nepal in Partnership with All Hands Disaster Response and Sattya.
August - October 2015 Bode IDP Camp Cinema
A cinema project in an IDP (Internally Displaced Persons) Camp in Nepal with All Hands and Bato Ko Cinema/Sattya.
October 2015 Kite Flying in Halchowk
Kite-flying ceremony to mark the completion of 50 transitional homes for a displaced community in Nepal.
July 2011 We'll Build You A House, We're Good At That
Temporary public art project by the Sociable Science Collective in Den Helder, Holland
June 2011 Babylon Kulturelles Ubersetzungsburo/Babylon Cultural Translation Agency
Participatory live Intervention, commissioned by NGBK Berlin and the Berlin Underground.
Sept 2010 - May 2011 Just Keep Shopping (everything will be okay)
Series of socially engaged projects with the Sociable Science Collective. Appeared in Cork Art Trail; Live Mart, Dublin; Beyond Growth Congress, Berlin.
March 2010 - March 2011 Public Facilities
Series of temporary public art interventions. Undertaken in Belfast, Dublin and Manchester, as part of Re:Public Exhibition in Temple Bar Gallery & Studios, Dublin an Hazard Live Art Festival, Manchester.
June 2009 The Embassy
Socially engaged participatory project with Catalyst Arts Gallery in Belfast about those from the south living in the north.
June - Aug 2009 Travelfreetravel
Transatlantic socially engaged project, bridging Limerick City Gallery of Art; The Other Gallery at the Banff, Centre, Canada and Oxegen Art Centre, Nelson, Canada. Collaboration with Candadian artist Maggie Shirley
December 2008 The Ditto Dance Project
Participatory dance event in Daghdha Dance Space, Limerick. Commissioned as part of Excursions Performance Festival and featuring the work of contemporary dance artists Ailish Claffey and Frej Tiljander.
Curatorial/Commissioning
Sept 2012 - June 2014 Public Art Manager, Galway County Council
Curating and commissioning a number of socially engaged projects, incuding:
- Illuminate. Ruby Wallis and Brothers of Charity
- Aughty Film Tour. Megs Morley & Tom Flanagan
- Christine. Amanda Dunsmore and Older LGBT Community
- David. Amanda Dunsmore and Older LGBT Community
- Gareth Kennedy and Headford Mens Shed Building Project
- Inis Bhearachain – Heather Ackroyd and Dan Harvey, in partnership with Tulca Festiva of Visual Arts
- Iascealaiocht – Ceara Conway, in partnership with Tulca Festiva of Visual Arts
- Oileanra Architecture based residency with Rionach Ni Neil (Dance), Michelle Browne (Visual Art/Performance), Danny McCarthy (Sound) and Fantastic Norway (Architecture) on Inis Oirr.
IGNITE Galway coordinator and working group member for this Disability Arts Commissioning Program, in partnership with four local authorities, the Arts Council, ADI (Arts and Disability Ireland), and the British Council.
Humanitarian
Disaster response worker with american NGO All Hands in Detroit, Vanuatu and Nepal. This work involved muck and gut work in food damaged homes, moving rubble from collapsed homes, program development, relationship management, delivering training, communications, humanitarian story-telling and community engagement.
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I Wanted To Be Surrounded By White. The Frozen Lake Was The Frozen Sky. This Man Had Drilled A Hole Into The Sky And Was Fishing In It When We Came Along.