My current work engages with (disappearing, diasporic, and minor) languages and their landscapes as intertwined topographies, using the Irish language (Gaeilge) as a departure point. Related drawings and prints explore orality and the resonance of language. Other video work in progress uses language to enter Irish immigrant history, the complexities of identity, and my experiences in the present-day US. These works are unfolding in parallel with my hybrid book in progress, Between Language– A Love Song.

In recent years, I have worked on an experimental play that engages with cultural belief systems and the limits of knowledge, and two lecture performances that seek to challenge hierarchies in the perceived cultural value of art. A further series of multi-media works on paper has engaged with cultural silences, withholding, and expression in tandem with my cross-genre book, The Shape of Silence.

My artistic practice has encompassed installation, video, photography, performance, printmaking, and artist’s books, with solo and group exhibitions and performances in Ireland, the UK, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and the US. Venues include Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin; Aachener Kunstverein, Germany; 1430 Contemporary, Portland, US, Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork, Ireland; The Globe Gallery, Newcastle, UK; Mehrwert e.v., Aachen, Germany; Wexford Arts Center, Wexford, Ireland; Basement Gallery, Dundalk, Ireland; Art Hive, Cork, Ireland; Bilderhaus Bornemann Galerie, Germany; Outpost Venice, Italy; Lavitt’s Quay Gallery, Cork; and the Center for Contemporary Art and Culture, Portland, US. My artist’s books are held in the New York Public Library art collection.