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experimenting with performance, public art, lino cut and visual text.

obsessed with intimacy, desire, transcendence.

enamoured by the body as encounter between interior and exterior.

seeking to express an embodied spirituality.

ZINE - the ecstasy of bridal mysticism

throughout religious history, women have been refused power and position in the church. one of the few ways to access spiritual authority and the sacred was through an aesthetic encounter that became transcendent.
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inspired by the writings of christian mystics Julian of Norwich, Teresa de Avila and Margery Kempe, this is an erotic encounter with the divine.
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the ecstasy of bridal mysticism is a short collection of poetry, lino prints and graffiti on the page that unites religion, domination and sex.
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much of this was made with the community and support of the Supernatural Women residency through @celdelnord, and the poems were developed with the feedback of my poetry group from Stinging Fly Summer School 2021. thank you, all x

ZINE - touch me soft

touch me soft is a loose narrative of poems about desire, vulnerability, intimacy and spirituality. words and visual poems, documentation and experimentation; each page is driven by questions that erupt from encounters of the flesh. can love (and desire) transcend borders of selfhood, language, nation? how does screen-life enhance both closeness and loneliness? is it possible for soul connections to open to deeper truths within?

this collection builds on my practice of making collages with disembodied elements of myself and another’s bodies. using photos taken of each other through screens, we developed this together during an online, collaborative residency with World of Co (Sofia, Bulgaria).

i was thrilled that a limited print run of touch me soft sold out at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios 2020 Dublin Art Book Fair.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

rebuild

(edinburgh, uk, 2020)

On the anniversary of South Korea’s Independence Day, 15 August, a group of artists were invited by Edinburgh-based, Korean born visual artist Sejin Moon (MFA in Photography) to make a series of live installations that reference a sculpture located in the city of Busan, South Korea, honouring the “comfort women” of World War II.

The artists commemorated the normalisation of rape in wartime, centred the frequency of female sexual slavery, brought attention to official silencing of women’s history, and looked towards what it means to rebuild.

How to heal the trauma of the past, in our bodies and in our worlds? What reparations must be made to recognise women’s history? Can war exist without rape? Can we rebuild a society that does not depend upon violence against women’s bodies?

you can watch a livestream of the event here.

sin tocar - without touch

(online, 2020)

for World of Co artist residency

in collaboration with Javier Zamora Valdés

A distance has been placed between us. Masks, shields, screens; everywhere we go, there are new barriers against human connection. How can we transcend the borders of separation? 

Using collage, we are experimenting with the self as canvas and the skin as material to explore the intersection of dualities: exterior and interior, spirit and flesh. All photos were taken through Zoom and Instagram, on phones and laptops; referencing the limits of screen connection. 

Through art we can create a common place, speak a common tongue. We can touch.

exposició collectiva

(El Bruc, Catalonia, 2019)

a collective exhibition with the Can Serrat September residency artists.

PERSONAL PROJECTS

strange encounters (jan & jul 2020)

there was a time in my life when i wandered. in London, in Istanbul, in Gothenburg; lost and alone, i trudged through streets and hoped somebody could tell me where to go. and then on a cold October night in Dublin, i looked above a shopfront to yellow cursive words painted on black: i love you so much.

sometimes, in times of hopelessness or confusion, we look for a sign.

now i wonder, can i create that sign? can i slap a few words on a mundane city street and hope somebody will create new meaning?

i choose phrases which have a particular resonance to me and make them into stickers, then place them in (mostly) urban environments.

with the philosophy of public art as gift, my intention is to participate in synchronicity, which Jung called a meaningful coincidence. i hope that passersby will observe the sticker, and it will speak to them, thus requiring three levels of authorship:

1. me

2. chance/fate/divine arrangement

3. the reader.

this depends upon universal alignment to put the recipient in the right place and right time. and is propelled by an optimistic hope, that through an encounter with these words, something from my heart will transmit to the heart of a stranger, and give them what they need.

RESIDENCIES

September 2021

Supernatural Women, Cel Del Nord (Barcelona)

*unfinished

August 2020

World of Co, Sofia, Bulgaria (online)

September 2019

Can Serrat, El Bruc, Spain