About

Born in Enniscorthy, Wexford, Ireland, during the height of the ‘Troubles’ to an Irish mother and an English father, I grew up with a deep bodily awareness of the socio-political definitions that define and bind us when left unquestioned. This understanding profoundly influences my work and life.

For over four decades, my practice occurs-with long-term collaborations at the intersection of feminist politics, cultural knowledges, social movements and art making. I approach art not as a representation, but as a shared response-ability—one that listens, questions, and shifts solidarities across difference. My work create spaces of collective rapport and tension, political, social and ecological memory (past-present-future) for  the co-creation of more ‘just’ ways of flourishing in troubled times and places.

This website celebrates the “just so…” – not as a polished or tightly curated showcase, but as a living record of everyday non-linear, non representational practices.

I live in Mparntwe-Alice Springs, Central Australia where I work as an artist-mentor-writer. By this I mean that I am governed by an ethics of generative creativity, inseparable from the ethos of writing/walking-with Arrernte Country.

In 2018, I co-founded Stick Mob Studio with Declan Miller (Arrernte, Anmatyerre, Scottish, Irish). Stick Mob is a collective of artists committed to writing, publishing, illustrating, and exhibiting stories that reimagine more ‘just’ worlds.

Collaborative-led works have been exhibited in the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA); Victoria & Albert Museum (V&A), London, England; Chester Beatty Library, Dublin, Ireland; UNSW Galleries, Sydney, Australia; Araluen Art Gallery, Mparntwe-Alice Springs; Parliament House, Canberra, and Watch This Space Gallery, Mparntwe, Central Australia as well as at festivals in Galway, Dublin, Tipperary, and Wolverhampton.

Creative works have been recognised with awards with ATOM (Australian Teachers of Media), First Nations Media, and NARIS (National Alliance for Remote Indigenous Schools).