as shepherd or steward

artistic research collaboration

drop table

various locations, Ireland

jul 2025-date

founder, coordinator

In July 2025, I founded an artistic research ensemble, Drop Table, to explore the environmental, social and political impacts of technology. The first project awarded to the group was Another Infrastructure (AI), a 12-month public and community art project supported by South Dublin County Council's In Context Public Art programme.

The ensemble will engage different artists, researchers and thinkers in long-term projects, seeking to distill complex research and highlight techno-social issues within broader social questions.

Biennial film festival for artists working with short film

Gstaadfilm

The Elbow Room, Dublin (2015), Centro Cultural Terminal Goes, Montevideo (2017), Kinobar Prager Frühling, Leipzig (2019), Durrow, Co. Laois (2020), Studio 44, Stockholm (2026)

2015-date

european manager

European Manager for Gstaadfilm: Festival for Short Art Films in 2015 the festival began its 'moving mountains' campaign, leaving the Swiss Alps for the first time and touring to Dublin.

My role involves sourcing a venue and liaising with artists, arranging the films and technical screenings, liaising with the jury and arranging screenings for jury members, and developing the program and promotional material. I created the 'moving mountains' campaign to signal the first time the festival began touring.

The film festival, orginally founded in Gstaad, Switzerland, featured a jury from four countries and over 2500 entered films from nearly 100 countries.

I have overseen logistics for tours of Ireland, the UK and Sweden (2015); Uruguay and Brazil (2017), Germany and the UK (2019) and Sweden (2026).

symposium and collective events

^ gathering and ^ social day

The Dock Arts Centre, Carrick-on-Shannon, Co. Leitrim, Ireland

Dec 6^th 2025 and Jan 24^th 2026

coordinator

A small crowd of people around a loom, where a child is currently weaving

Two events took place as part of the exhibition Waking the Land in The Dock, Carrick-on-Shannon.

The first was a collectives day on 6^th December 2025, making space for arts collectives in the north-west to come together and meet, attended by over 40 people. The second was a day-long symposium with performances, talks, music and workshops on January 24^{th 2026, sold out and attended by over 75 people.}

artist collective and artist-led space

^

^, Manorhamilton, Co. Leitrim, Ireland

Jul 2022-Feb 26

co-founder, member

In September 2022, a small group of humans (artists, repairers, hackers, breakers, foragers, growers) collectively opened a space in north-west Ireland. This porous territory will host us, at least for a short while. I am one of the co-founders of ^ with Tara Baoth Mooney, James Kelly and Laura McMorrow

This is a three storey building for experimental collaboration, creating new work and developing conversations led by ethics of care and contemporary philosophy on the more-than-human.

Gaining space is an act that we consider radical in a time of pandemic and digital space, when territories and boundaries are taking on new meanings. As artists, we have a small group that are dedicated to broadening conversations on what it means to collaborate, including considering what these porous borders at the edge of our bodies might represent.

symposium and exhibition

^TEND

The Glens Centre and ^, Manorhamilton, Co. Leitrim, Ireland

Jan 2025

cooordinator

poster for the upcoming ^TEND event with a figure in the centre and text about the event surrounding

A 3-day event about tendoing, healing and care featuring artworks, talks and performance at ^, the Glens Centre and outdoors in Manorhamilton, January 17th-19th 2025, created by the collective ^

Information and documentation is at this link. Poster by Laura McMorrow.

events for Design Week Leitrim 2023

Stories in Machines

Irish Design Week Leitrim 2023

2023

coordinator

three people speak in a brightly lit room to a casually sitting audience

Invited to programme events for Design Week 2023 in Leitrim by Creative Heartlands and Leitrim Design House. The events included a one-day workshop on artist-led servers by Rotterdam-based collective varia and a panel discussion on myth and Irish techno-cosmology by collaborators writer Mike McCormack and artist El Putnam, chaired by Dr. Paul O'Neill of Dublin Art and Technology Association. Photograph by Cían Flynn

touring group exhibition and collaborative artistic research project

Púca in the Machine

Blessington, Wicklow, Ireland

Nov 2019-date

project lead, collaborating artist

Three light-based art installations in a dark room

In 2019, I began walking the lake shores of Poulaphuca in west Wicklow. This area is rich with history, myth, ecology and connections to technology, and I first produced artworks relating to the reservoir in 2020.

In 2021, I won funding from Wicklow Arts Office Strategic Projects Award to develop work in collaboration with two invited artists whose practices link ecology, history and human impact on environment, Niamh Fahy and Alannah Robins.

The resultant artworks and research were printed in a self-published book, launched at Blessington Library in March 2022.

In 2022, I received a second Strategic Projects Award to invite artists Margaret O'Brien, Saidhbhín Gibson and writer Robert Barrett to explore the same material and to work briefly with the 2022 artists.

A plan is in place for a third and final 2024 edition of this project.

Photograph above by Louis Haugh

group exhibition about technology and nature

As Tree

St. George's Hall, Tubbercurry

2020

project lead

a plant on the left hand side with text on the right detailing the as tree exhibition

Creative Ireland Sligo funded project for three-person exhibition about the overlap between art, technology, nature and place, to be staged in October 2020 at St. George's Hall, Tubbercurry. Moved to online exhibition due to COVID-19 restrictions.

2-year Enterprise Ireland funded Commercialisation Project

FÍOSÍN

Trinity College Dublin

2017-19

project manager

Project manager on project FÍOSÍN, a €311,000 two-year commercialisation project funded by Enterprise Ireland's Commercialisation Fund. This project brought the results of Project Slándáil (see below, 2014-17) forward with plans to commercialise academic software.

Role included meeting and presenting to funders, legal teams, financial teams and external advisers. Led strategic development, including planning for financial and legal apparatus in running an independent university spin-off.

Was lead author on the application for funding for this grant.

1-year proof of principle commercialisation project

Éadáil

Trinity College Dublin

2017-18

project manager

Project manager on project Éadáil, a €100,000 one-year Proof of Principle project funded as pre-commercialisation by Atlantic Bridge. Managed finance, logistics, external contracts, and funding applications.

Was contributing author and editor on the application for funding for this grant.

3-year EU-funded research project

Slándáil

Trinity College Dublin

2014-17

project manager

Project manager on €3m EU-FP7 funded project Slándáil, a research project exploring the use of social media in emergency management. Managed finance, logistics, strategic planning and project development planning for twelve partner organisations in four EU countries, with a team of over 60 people.

Project coordinated by Khurshid Ahmad at Trinity College Dublin and resulted in further research funding for commercialisation and the first book published on the legal use of social media in emergency management.

Festival for electronic arts

Phase One Electronic Music and Art Festival

The Dock Arts Centre, Carrick-on-Shannon

2015

visual art curator

Curated and organised the visual art programme for the 2015 Phase One Electronic Music & Arts Festival, which included interactive audio and video work, sculpture and film from 12 artists

The festival included music, interactive art, visual art and film screenings.

Tour of international artists from Swiss art space

Moving Mountains

Wandelbar Art International, SwitzerlandOrmston House, Limerick, Ireland; BayArt, Cardiff, Wales

2015

manager

an artist carries an inflatable minaret in a snowy mountain town

Developed exhibition and touring plans for international art exhibition featuring internationally known artists Max Roth, Harold Reichenbach, Andrew Cooper, Paco Simón and Zimoun.

Role included liaising with venues and arranged publicity for the events.

The exhibition featured artists from Swiss gallery Wandelbar Art International.

Conference on design and new media

Rough Draft

Glass House Hotel, Sligo, Ireland

2013-14

co-founder, co-lead

Co-founded the annual conference with researcher and designer Paul McNama, which took place in 2013 and 2014 in Sligo, Ireland. Organised and liaised with speakers and funders. Developed design and promotional material for conference.

Series of music events with national and international acts

Tilt-Shift

Sligo, Ireland

2009-10

co-lead

Collaborated with photographer, designer and promoter Cian Flynn (Look Alive) to organise a series of music events with national and international artists, including US performers Brendan Benson and Jeffrey Lewis, UK-based Milk Kan, and Irish artists including Jinx Lennon, O Emperor, and Rarely Seen Above Ground.

Included liaising with promoters and artists, organising fees, timetabling, and promotion.

Art group and artist-led space for connecting artists

Push Remote Arts

Market Yard, Sligo, Ireland

2007-2011

founder, lead

Established an art group in 2007 in Manorhamilton, Leitrim, later moved to premises at Market Yard, Sligo, where an art studio and gallery was established. The group was established to support artists recently graduated and to help them get exhibition experience. It was used to give advice and conversation between artists facing similar challenges at a particular point in their careers.

The associated studio/gallery opened in 2009, and remained open until 2011, hosting three artists at a time in the studio spaces, and holding exhibitions at intervals of 2-4 months. It closed finally due to lack of available funding.

Town-wide exhibition and art group

ArtMart and ArtCrawl

The Mall, Sligo and various venues

2009

co-lead

In 2009, working with artists Lisa Cannon, Siabhra O'Brien and Sophie Murray, I co-organised the exhibition ArtCrawl 09, which took place over five venues throughout Sligo town. The exhibition featured over 60 artists working in different media.

The artist's space ArtMart opened following this exhibition, and ran for another two years. I was involved in initial negotiations and logistics for the opening and setup of ArtMart, leaving after establishment to run Push Remote Studios.

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