Education
2019 – 2021 (MPhil) Philosophy, Trinity College Dublin
2017 – 2018 (MA) (Hons) Art in the Contemporary World, NCAD
2013 – 2016 (BFA) (Hons) Fine Art Painting & Visual Culture, NCAD
First class honours, commended in Visual Culture
Select Curatorial Experience
2025 Assistant Curator: Irish Museum of Modern Art (present)
2025 – 2027 Curatorial Collaborator: Kunstverein Aughrim (present)
2025 Panel, Arts and Cultural Programming: Dublin City Council (present – ad hoc)
2024 – 2025 Curatorial Fellow: Irish Museum of Modern Art
2025 Guest Education Curator: Hugh Lane Gallery
2023 – 2024 Curatorial Assistant: Irish Museum of Modern Art
2023 – 2026 Curator of Visual Art: Brown Mountain Diamond, Kilkenny
2019 Communications Assistant: Block Universe, London
Select Teaching Experience
2026 Assistant Lecturer: BA, Critical and Contextual Studies, Limerick School of Art & Design, TUS (present)
2025 Visiting Lecturer: MFA, Limerick School of Art & Design, TUS
2023, 2024 Visiting Lecturer: BFA; MFA, Technical University Dublin
2020 – 2023 Teaching Assistant: BA, Philosophy, Trinity College Dublin
Select Awards
2025 Visual Art Bursary Award, Arts Council Ireland
2025 Public Arts Grant, Kilkenny County Council
2024 Travel Grant, Culture Ireland
2023 Writer Award, Pallas Projects Studios/ PVA
2023 Agility Award, Arts Council Ireland
2022 Emerging Curator Award, Black Church Print Studios
2019 – 2026 Artists Support Scheme Funding, Fingal County Council
Select Exhibitions and Performances
2026 Assistant curator: Technologies of Peace: Art and Transition in Contemporary Europe (1989–2026), IMMA
2025 Assistant curator: Fisherwoman, Fisherwoman: Camille Souter & Alberta Whittle, IMMA
2025 Co-curator: Staying with the Trouble, IMMA
2025 Assistant curator and publication editor: Sam Gilliam: Sewing Fields, IMMA. Distributed by D.A.P.
2025 Curator: Paddy Bloomer, John Byrne, Bog Cottage, Maria McKinney and Sharon Phelan, RURAL LIFE 1.0, Brown Mountain Diamond, Kilkenny
2025 Curator: Joseph Noonan-Ganley, The Cesspool of Rapture, Artist’s Texts 2012-2024, IMMA (performance)
2025 Co-curator: Eoghan Ryan, Venus Patel, Leánn Herlihy, Sam Keogh, Bea McMahon, Terrapolis, IMMA (performance)
2024 Curator: Irina Gheorghe, Backgarden Trilogy, Goethe-Institut, Bucharest, Romania (tour)
2024 Assistant curator: Hamad Butt: Apprehensions, IMMA. In collaboration with Whitechapel Gallery, London
2024 Curator and commissioner: Day Magee, Sermon of the Body Only. Free Space, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios
2024 Curator: Siobhán Hapaska, Eva Rothschild and Niamh O’Malley, Redux, IMMA
2024 Assistant curator and publication editor: Hilary Heron: A Retrospective, IMMA
2024 Curator: Frank Wasser, SPLIT, IMMA (performance)
2024 Curator: Lisa Freeman, Slipped Part 2, IMMA (performance)
2024 Curator: Irina Gheorghe, A Guided Tour Through the Distant Future (performance)
2023 Curator and commissioner: Irina Gheorghe, Backgarden Trilogy, Goethe-Institut Irland
2023 Curator: Bassam Issa, Sibyl Montague, Alice Rekab and Marcel Vidal, Material Parables, Draíocht
2023 Assistant curator: Howardena Pindell: A Renewed Language, IMMA
2023 Curator: Ella Bertilsson, Susan Buttner, An Gee Chan, Michelle Malone, Alison Pilkington, Love you my sweaty, Black Church Print at The Library Project
2022 Curator and commissioner: Sophie Gough and Daire O’Shea, Hot glue, The Complex, Dublin; Platform, Belfast (tour)
2021 Curator and commissioner: Eimear Murphy,.pptx, Void, Derry (online)
2020 Curator and commissioner: Moran Been-noon, Foreignments, The Lab (online)
2019 Curator and commissioner: Oran Leong and Aoife Kavanagh, POST-DANCE, Project Arts Centre
2018 Co-curator: Paula Fitzsimons, Leann Herlihy, Ciara McKeon and Rachael Rankin, Anticipation: Actualisation, NCAD Gallery
Select Writing
Member of AICA | International Association of Art Critics
2026 Review: Andy Fitz, Now, now, PVA
2025 Essay co-author: The Price of Expression: Artistic Freedom, Capital and the Republic, An Clogán
2025 Publication editor: Sam Gilliam: Sewing Fields, IMMA. Distributed by D.A.P.
2025 Essay: RURAL LIFE 1.0, The Nore Review
2025 Review: Bea McMahon and Conor McFeely, GOD, Enclave Review
2025 Review: Marielle MacLeman, The Visitors, PVA
2025 Review: Paul Pfeiffer, Prologue to the Return of The Real, OVER Journal
2024 Publication editor: Hilary Heron: A Retrospective, IMMA
2024 Essay: Belonging by Volition, Archiving Plurality, NIVAL
2023 Commissioned essay: Maslow’s Hammer, Periodical Review 13, PVA
2023 Publication editor: Backgarden Trilogy. Distributed by The Library Project
2023 Essay: Working Class Romanian Pentecostals in Ireland, Mirror Lamp Press, No. 7
2022 Review: Harsh Salvation, OVER Journal
2020 Essay: Breaking The Rule of Silence, The Lives We Live – Grangegorman Public Art, Grangegorman Development Agency
2019 Review: As She Climbed Across The Table, Circa Art Magazine
2019 Catalogue essay: ESTUARY, Draíocht
2019 Review: Making Art: Painting, VAN
2017 Managing editor: in:Action (online)
Select Talks and Public Engagement
2026 Guest Programme Curator: Navigating Power in Contemporary Curating, VAI (online)
2025 Guest Education Curator: Hugh Lane Gallery
2025 Critical Mapping Workshop with Nathan O’Donnell: Douglas Hyde Gallery
2024 Symposium presentation: Hilary Heron Ireland’s Most Promising Sculptor, Trinity Long Room Hub x IMMA
2023 In-conversation with David Sherry, FIX ’23: Catalyst Arts, Belfast (online)
2023 Speed curating: Chronic Collective: Connections, Fire Station Artist Studios
2023 Speed curating: Critical Practice Reviews, PhotoIreland
2023 Talk: Post college trajectory towards professional practice, NCAD
2023 BASIC TALKS: Hugh Lane Gallery
2021 Guest lecturer: Metaphysical Society, Trinity College Dublin
2021 Panel chairperson: Intergenerational Legacies Conference, NCAD (online)
2020 Panel chairperson: Performing Acculturation, The Lab (online)
2018 Panel chairperson: PLATFORM’ 18, Draíocht
Residencies
2025 Curator in Residence: Sirius Arts Centre
2019 INCUBATE Residency: Draoícht
Press
2024 Una Mullally: From farmhouse to arts house, The Irish Times
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