CV
SOLO / TWO-PERSON Exhibitions (selected):
2023
Bungalow Bliss at Irish Architectural Archive, Dublin – with Askeaton Contemporary Arts
2020/21
The Soil Became Scandinavian (with Feargal Ward) at VISUAL, Carlow
2016
Baustellebeschreibung (Building-site description), Scriptings, Berlin
2012
The Difference in how I Believe You, The Dock Arts Centre, Carrick-on-Shannon, Leitrim, Ireland
How the Mighty have Fallen, Monster Truck, Dublin
2011
Two Towers in a Forest, The Joinery, Dublin
The Ministry for Education and Design, The Guesthouse, Cork
Master and Man, Skibbereen Arts Festival, Cork
Epiphenomena (curator Emmet Kierans), Occupy Space, Limerick City
How the Mighty have Fallen, Queen Street Studios, Belfast
My Dear Brother’s Tree, The Joinery, Dublin
2010
How the Mighty have Fallen, The Joinery, Dublin
2009
Gooseberries, Pallas Contemporary Projects, Dublin
GROUP Exhibitions (selected):
2024
Project Space #1 'Ballon Rond' a presentation of work at Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris, alongside Michael Craig-Martin and Michael Hanna
2023
Níl Aon Tinteáin, South Tipperary Arts Centre, Clonmel, Ireland
2022
Periodical Review X, Pallas Projects, Dublin (online)
MAYDAY: A 108-minute orbit of 'i see Earth', VISUAL, Carlow (as part of Tom dePaor's i see earth)
2021
Lost Colony (short film directed by Adrian Duncan) at Docs Ireland, Belfast
2019
The Parted Veil, group show at The Glucksman Gallery, UCC, Cork, curated by Fiona Kearney and Christopher Clarke
Floating Structures (feature-length documentary film directed by Adrian Duncan & Feargal Ward) at VMDIFF, Dublin
2018
Memory Room (short film directed by Adrian Duncan & Feargal Ward) at IDFA (Paradocs), Amsterdam, Holland
Infrastructures of Now, NCAD Gallery, Dublin, Ireland, curated by Anne Kelly
EVA International 2018, Limerick, Ireland, curated by Inti Guerrero
2017
The Bungalow Bliss Bus Tour with the Red Bird Youth Collective and Galway Arts Centre, Galway, Ireland
2016
The making of the unrealised at Kreuzberg Pavillon, Berlin.
TULCA – The Headless City Galway, Ireland, curated by Daniel Jewesbury
Veins / Small ... Far Away at Molesworth Gallery, Dublin, Ireland, curated by Pendergast and Moor
Bungalow Bliss at the Irish Film Institute, Ireland, short-film collaboration with Feargal Ward, as part of TG4 and the Arts Council of Ireland 2016 celebrations in film. There were 7 other commissioned film works all of which were screened at the IFI and broadcast on TG4 (Irish-language national broadcaster)
There are little kingdoms at Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray, Co. Wicklow, Ireland, curated by Emma Dwyer
2015
Curate Life Collection, at Museum of African Design, Johannesburg, South Africa
Bungalow Bliss: A Rural Modernity, at Irish Embassy, Berlin, Germany, with Olga Tiernan
The Lie of the Land at Sirius Arts Centre, Cobh, Co. Cork, curated by Miranda Driscoll
2014
The Conquest of the Impossible, Experimental Project, IEEB6, Bucharest, curated by Javier Martin Jimenez (as part of Allá afuera (Out There), curated by Jeronimo Hagerman (MUCA Mexico))
Oiticica's Instructions, IMMA (Irish Museum of Modern Art), Dublin; co-curated with NCAD, IMMA, and Projectos Oiticica – as part of IMMA's Oiticica's Propositions
this is authenticity *, The Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast, curated by Eoin Dara
2013
A lamb lies down, Broadstone, Dublin, curated by Paul Hallahan
The Land, The Joinery, Dublin, with filmmaker Feargal Ward
Ingenious, at The Drawing Project, Dublin, curated by Mark Joyce
Artists on Architecture, Offaly County Council buildings, curated by Oonagh Young
2012
Radio Joinery, curated by the Joinery with Marysia Wieckiewicz-Carroll
Instructions on How to Survey a Promenade, The Drawing Project, Dublin, with Marta Fernández Calvo
Horizontal Sprawl, Ormston House, Limerick City, curated by Stephanie Bertrand
Under the Counter Poster Manifestation, Galway City, curated by Ruby Wallis and Vicky Smith
2011
Radical Love II, Dublin, curated by Sam Keogh and Joseph Noonan-Ganley
Void:Volume, Galway Arts Centre, Galway City
Busáras in Cape Town, The Proposal Project, Cape Town, South Africa, with Marta Fernández Calvo
Invite / Reject, MART/C4 Contemporary, Los Angeles
2010
Of Process, Catalyst Arts, Belfast, with Fiona Marron
Preface, Pallas Contemporary Projects, Dublin
Recharge, Transcolonia, Dublin, curated by Blaithín Quinn
A Mapping, MTSL, Dublin, curated by Rebecca O'Dwyer and Seán O'Sullivan
2009
Grin and Bear it, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, UCC, Cork, curated by Matt Packer and Claire Feeley
FILMOGRAPHY
Für Bettina (2024)
Director
20 minutes
Irish Premiere at Cork IFF
Prosinecki (2023)
Director
21 minutes
Rotterdam (IFFR), 2023
Karlovy Vary IFF, 2023
Lowland (2022)
directed with Feargal Ward
20 minutes
Best director in Irish Shorts Competition at Cork IFF
Finite Elements (2022)
Director
4 minutes
TENSION STRUCTURES (2020)
directed with Feargal Ward
58 minutes
North American Premiere: Hot DOCS 2020
Day of the Lords (2019) music video
directed with Feargal Ward
5 minutes, premiered July 2019 on YouTube
As part of Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures Reimagined project
FLOATING STRUCTURES (2019)
directed with Feargal Ward
64 minutes
Irish premiere at VMDIFF 2019
Memory Room (2018)
directed with Feargal Ward
24 minutes
World premiere at IDFA 2018
Bungaló Bliss (2016)
directed with Feargal Ward
5 minutes for TG4 (Irish-language national broadcaster)
Residencies:
Irish Architectural Archive, 2022
Askeaton Contemporary Arts, Ireland, June 2022
Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris, France, October 2020 (with Literature Ireland)
Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris, France, September 2018
Askeaton Contemporary Arts, Ireland, March 2014
Heinrich Böll cottage, Achill, Co. Mayo, Ireland, Winter, 2012/13
Ormston House, Writer in Residence, Limerick, Ireland, 2012
The Good Hatchery, Daingean, Co. Offaly, Ireland, 2011
Guest House, Shandon, Cork, Ireland, 2011 & 2012
National Sculpture Factory, Cork, Ireland, 2011
Arts on Main, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2011
Collections:
Office of Public Works collection, Ireland
Life Residency Collection, Arts on Main, Johannesburg, South Africa
Bibliography:
Anglia (DE), December 2023, Prof Dr Ralf Haekel on A Sabbatical in Leipzig
Film Verdict, February 2023, Ben Fergusson on Prosinecki (short film)
Irish Examiner, January 2023, Mark O'Sullivan Vallig on Little Republics (exhibition)
Sunday Times, November, 2022, Houman Barekat on A Sabbatical in Leipzig
Irish Examiner, November, 2022, Michael Moynihan on Little Republics
Sunday Independent, October 2022, Conor Skehan on Little Republics
Irish Times, October 2022, Karl Whitney on Little Republics
Sunday Business Post, May 2022, Niamh Donnelly on The Geometer Lobachevsky
The Financial Times, May 2022, Matthew Janney on The Geometer Lobachevsky
Irish Times, April 2022, Mia Levitin on The Geometer Lobachevsky
The Literary Review, April 2022, Kevin Brazil on The Geometer Lobachevsky
Visual Artist's News Sheet, July/August, 2021, Frank Wasser on Midfield Dynamo
Dublin Review of Books, June 2021, Neil Hegarty on Midfield Dynamo
Irish Times, April 2021, Michael Cronin on Midfield Dynamo
The Guardian, June 2021, Colm Tóibín on Love Notes from a German Building Site
Irish Independent, June, 2020, Justine Carberry on A Sabbatical in Leipzig
Irish Times, April 2020, Niamh Donnelly on A Sabbatical in Leipzig
Dublin Review of Books, April 2020 Anna Benn on A Sabbatical in Leipzig
The Times Literary Supplement, January 2020, Harry Strawson on Love Notes from a German Building Site
Visual Artists' Ireland Newssheet, September 2019, Catherine Harty on The Parted Veil group show at The Glucksman Gallery, UCC, Cork, 2019
Sunday Independent, David O'Connor on Love Notes from a German Building Site
Dublin Review of Books, Enda O'Doherty on Love Notes from a German Building Site
Irish Times, April 2019, Sarah Gilmartin on Love Notes from a German Building Site
Irish Times, February 2019, Tara Brady on Floating Structures
Film Ireland, March 2019, June Butler on Floating Structures
Visual Artists' Newssheet, January, 2019, Brendan Fox on Infrastructures of Now, 2018
Ocula, July 2018, Stephanie Bailey, on EVA 2018
Art Review, June 2018, Rebecca O'Dwyer, on EVA 2018
Art Forum online, March 2018, by Sabrina Mandanici, on EVA 2018
Frieze, May/June/July 2018, Mimi Chu on EVA 2018
RTÉ.com highlights, June 2018, Cristín Leach, on EVA 2018
Visual Artists Ireland Newssheet, Jan / Feb 2017, Gianna Tasha, on TULCA 2016
The Irish Times, July 2015, Aidan Dunne
We Are Collected, April 2015, Padraig Spillane
The Irish Times, March 2015, Manchán Magan
Visual Artists Ireland Newssheet, Jan / Feb 2014, David Brancleone
SuperKaleidoscope, Berlin & Sydney, January 2012, Rebecca O’Dwyer
Sunday Tribune, January 9th, 2011
Le Cool, Dublin, October 2010 & May 2012
Awards:
2023/24 Arts Council REEL ART Award
2023 Arts Council Film Project Award
2021 Arts Council Visual Artist Project Award
2021 Arts Council Artist Bursary
2019 Arts Council Film Project Award
2019 Arts Council Artist Bursary
2018 Arts Council Artist Bursary
2017 Arts Council Reel Art film award (with Feargal Ward)
2017 Arts Council Artist Bursary
2016 TG4/Arts Council Film Award (with Feargal Ward)
2015 Arts Council Artist Bursary Award
Short-listed for the Wexford Emerging Visual Artist award 2013 & 2014
Arts Council Travel and Training, October 2012
Books:
Little Republics: The Story of Bungalow Bliss, (non-fiction) 2022
The Geometer Lobachevsky, (novel) 2022
Midfield Dynamo, (short story collection) 2021
A Sabbatical in Leipzig, (novel) 2020/22
Love Notes from a German Building Site, (novel) 2019
Prizes
The John McGahern Book Prize 2019
Shortlistings
Walter Scott Prize, 2023
Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year, 2023
Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year, 2021
The Dalkey Literary Awards Emerging Writer, 2020
Longlistings
The Edge Hill Prize, 2021
Education:
1995–2007:
University of Aberdeen: B.Eng. (Hons) Civil and Structural Engineering
Institute of Engineers of Ireland: Chartered Engineer Status
2008–2010:
IADT (Dún Laoghaire): Visual Arts Practice. (Fine Art)
2010–2011:
NCAD (Dublin): M.A. Art in the Contemporary World. (1st class hons)
Presentations/Talks
-2023
Q&A at Karlovy Vary IFF, Czech Republic, July 2023
Q&A at Hinterland Festival with Robert Miles, Kells, Ireland June 2023
interview with Aingeala Flannery on The Dublin Review Podcast, June 2023
Interview and reading with Belinda McKeon at Granard Book Town Festival, April 2023
Reading with Stav Poleg, Peter Sirr at Cork World Book Festival, April 2023
Interview with Ken Early on Second Captains Podcast, January 2023
-2022
Reading and Q&A with Darran Anderson, at Maggs Bros., London, November 2022
Reading and Q&A with Nuala O'Connor and Prof Dr Catherine Toal, at After Joyce, ICI Berlin/Bard College, October 2022
Reading at New Voices, New Directions, at Leipzig University, September 2022
Reading and Q&A with Sara Baume and Gail MacConnell, with ILF, Dublin, May 2022
-2021
Reading and Q&A with Vona Groarke and Cliodhna Ní Anluain, with Leaves Festival, Co. Laoise, October 2021
Reading and Q&A with Evelyn Conlon and Alannah Hopkin, with Cork International Short Story Festival, October 2021
Q&A with Wendy Erskine, in collaboration with Belfast Book Festival, June 2021
Q&A with Sue Rainsford and Niamh Campbell, in collaboration with UCD, Dublin, March 2021
Q&A with Michele Horrigan, in collaboration with Solas Nua, Washington DC. January 2021
-2020
Q&A with Rob Doyle and Lisa McInerney, as part of New Irish Creatives, Irish Embassy, Berlin, December 2020
Q&A with Kiki Kolman at InScience Film Festival Nijmegem, NED, 2020
What do Buildings do all Day, podcast interview with Emmett Scanlon, 2020
Q&A with Madelaine Russo at Hot Docs, Toronto, May, 2020
-2019
Reading at Dublin Book Festival with Nicole Flattery, Lucy Sweeney-Byrne and Ian Maleney, November 2019
Q&A with Dara Waldron at Cork Film Festival, November, 2019
Q&A with Tadhg O'Sullivan at Docs Fest Ireland, Belfast, June, 2019
Q&A with Dr. Francis Halsall at The Goethe Institute, Dublin, April 2019
Q&A with Feargal Ward and Sunniva O'Flynn at IFI, Dublin as part of VMDIFF 2019, February 2019
-2018
Creativity and Engineering presentation of research on engineer Peter Rice – at VISUAL, Carlow; with Peter Flynn (Arup) and Prof. Linda Doyle (TCD), April 2018
EVA 2018, Q&A – at EVA, Limerick, April 2018
-2017
Bungalow Bliss & other systems of Rural Living (tour) – at Cowhouse Studios, Wexford in collaboration with ACW NCAD November 2017
Hypernormalisation – at the Douglas Hyde, Dublin, May 2017; a talk chaired by Alice Butler and including Tadhg O'Sullivan and Francis Halsall, on the subject of Adam Curtis's recent filmessay Hypernormalisation. I curated this event and made the content available on the PVA website.
Having a Kiki Book Launch – at Archive Books, Berlin, January 2017 with Emma Haugh
Bungalow Bliss – at UCC School of Architecture, Cork, January 2017
Description in Art Criticism discussion chair – at Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, January 2017
-2016
Art & Writing no. 3, Structure – with Selina Guinness, chaired by Susan Tomaselli of gorse Journal at Temple Bar Gallery & Studios, Dublin, November 2016
Beyond the building site – presentation and series of screenings at Books People Places, Berlin, July 2016
Language of Description – presentation and series of screenings with Anita di Bianco at Scriptings, Berlin, June 2016
Reading as Practice – presentation of three essays on art criticism written between 2011 and 2016, Irish Museum of Modern Art, May 2016 – with Nathan O'Donnell and Francis Halsall of ACW, Eleanor Flegg, and Emma Haugh
-2015
Bungalow Bliss: A Rural Modernity – presentation of Bungalow Bliss project (with Olga Tiernan) Irish embassy, Berlin, as part of ID2015, June 2015
Artist talk with Jill Quigley and Miranda Driscoll, also a reading night, as part of The Lie of the Land, at Sirius Arts Centre, Co. Cork, February 2015
-2014
Artist as Entrepreneur 1 at Occupy Space (Orlaith Treacy), Limerick, March 2014
-2013
I won't say I will see you tomorrow, at Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray, Co. Wicklow, May 2013. Curated by Aoife Tunney and Eilis Lavelle.
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AIARG Emerging Research conference, at the School of Architecture University of Limerick, January 2013
-2012
Autonomous Practices – part of Sarah Pierce’s Toward a Newer Laöcoon, NCAD Gallery, October 2012
Paper Visual Art at Belfast Exposed, October 2012, with Niamh Dunphy and Rebecca O'Dwyer
Commissions+, October 2012, (organised by Valerie Connor and Caroline Cowley of Fingal Co. Co.)
Get Together, VAI at EVA, LCGA, Limerick, June 2012
Outside the system of difference (Marie Farrington & Sarah Doherty), discussion chair, The Joinery, May 2012
Spaces of Art and Architecture, The Drawing Project, (IADT) May 2012
Inside Out Outside In, in conversation with Emmet Kierans, Talbot Gallery, March 2012
-2011
Three Farmers on their way to a Dance, discussion chair, The Joinery, September 2011
What Do you Stand For? Seminar, NCAD, Dublin, March 2011
NCAD Postgraduate Symposium, Dublin, 2011
-2010
Some Blind Alleys reading night, Gutter Bookshop, Dublin, 2010