Artist Statement
A responding act has always been at the core of my practice. I use my body as a filter, absorbing, processing, and accumulating information before the experience ignites into a form of creative resistance. My recent practice has taken an intuitive approach, building a work without a planned structure. Along the way, I encountered the limitations of still photography in expressing internal emotions, which led me to experiment with digital manipulation, software algorithms, sound, and video.
Solo exhibitions and screenings include Bouncing up, Push me down, Studio 16, TBG+S, Dublin (2024); Red Illuminates II: Age Instructions on Marriage and Childbearing, The Library Project, Dublin (2023); Red Illuminates, The Courthouse Gallery, Co. Clare (2021); Yuri, 13th edition of the Dublin Lunar New Year festival. Selected group exhibitions include MAKING ART: Photography, Draíocht Gallery, Dublin (2022); The Figurative Seven, The Courthouse Gallery, Co. Clare (2022); In Our Own Image: Photography and the Social Gaze, Photo Museum Ireland (2022).
Recent awards include the TBG+S Project Studio Award & Recent Graduate Residency Award, the Create AIC, Recent Graduate Research and Development Award, The Arts Council Visual Arts Bursary Award, and The Courthouse Gallery, Graduate Exhibition Award. Commissions include TBG+S Flag Commission, the Visual Art Commission at The Dock Gallery, Carrick-on-Shannon, and Creative Ireland/ Dublin City Council’s Diversity Commission. Project Studio Member at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios. My work is held in the national Photo Museum Ireland Collection and Arts Council of Ireland Collection.