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Education
M.A. in Visual Art Practice, IADT Dún Laoghaire, Dublin
National Certificate in Photography, IADT Dún Laoghaire, Dublin
National College of Art and Design, Dublin
Residencies (selected):
2024 Marine Expedition, Oslofjord, RV Trygve Braarud via University of Oslo, Norway
2023 Irish Marine Mammal Ecosystem Survey, Marine Expedition, NE Atlantic Ocean, RV Celtic Explorer
2022 Artist Laboratory, Devenish Lands at Dowth, Solstice Arts Centre
2020/22 UCD Parity Studios iCRAG Artist in Residence
2022 Landscape, Ecology & Environment Research Residency, Leitrim Sculpture Centre
2021 SHUL Residency, South Tipperary Arts Centre
2020 Science Gallery Dublin Rapid Residency
2020 Temple Bar Gallery + Studio’s Creative Generations Artist in Residence, O’Connell’s Boys School, Dublin 1
2019 Monitoring Changes in Submarine Canyon Coral Habitats Marine Expedition, NE Atlantic Ocean, RV Celtic Explorer
2019 Artist in Residence, European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF), UK
2019 Artist in Residence, European Commission, Joint Research Centre, EU Science Hub, IT
2018 EUCIDA Digital Artist in Residence, Espace Multimédia Gantner, FR
2018 Resonances Summer School, European Commission, Joint Research Centre, IT
2017 Rising from the Hill: Local Systems in Global Contexts Residency, Cow House Studios
2017 This Must be the Place, Arts and Health Residency
2016 Artist in Residence, Irish Centre for High End Computing (ICHEC), Dublin
Solo Exhibitions | Projects | Installations (selected):
2025 Title TBC, Lexicon Municipal Gallery
2024 draft fissure, Galway Arts Centre
2023 midnight zone, Highlanes Municipal Gallery
2022 in fracture zones, LEER, Leitrim Sculpture Centre
2019/20 Quotidian, Illuminations Gallery, Maynooth University
2018 At Some Distance in the Direction Indicated, Butler Gallery, Kilkenny
2015 CASTING TERRITORY: A Contemporary River Keepers’ Index of Lesser Known Patterns, RUA RED
2015 CASTING TERRITORY: A Contemporary River Keepers’ Index of Lesser Known Patterns, RDS Library Archive
2015 CASTING TERRITORY: A Contemporary River Keepers’ Index of Lesser Known Patterns, Waterways Centre, Dublin
2015 Continuum, Draiocht, Ground Floor Gallery, Dublin
2012 Knitted Flood Wall, Ballsbridge Dodder Residence Association, Dublin
Group and Two Person Exhibitions (selected):
2023 Holdings, Solstice Arts Centre
2022 SALT, Art Walk Projects, Edinburgh, Scotland
2021 SHUL, Martina O’Brien & Christine Mackey, South Tipperary Arts Centre
2020 New Era, curated by Brenda McParland, Solstice Arts Centre
2019/20 Datami, curated by Freddy Paul Grunert, BOZAR, Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels
2019 Tactical Magic, TULCA Festival of Visual Arts curated by Kerry Guinan, 126 Artist-run Gallery, Galway
2019 Datami, curated by Freddy Paul Grunert, European Commission’s Science Hub Joint Research, Italy
2017 Rising from the Hill: Local Systems in Global Contexts, curated by Francis Halsall & Kelley O’Brien, NCAD Gallery
2016 The Headless City, TULCA Festival of Visual Arts curated by Daniel Jewesbury, Galway Arts Centre, Galway
2016 ART WORKS, VISUAL Carlow, selected by Annie Fletcher & Claire Feeley
2015 2050, Boston High Water Collective, Boston MA
2014 Royal Ulster Academy’s 133rd Annual Exhibition
2014 Shadows, CPPCC Museum, Beijing
2013 Poster Politik, Martina O’Brien & Mick O’Kelly, The LAB, Dublin
2013 Walls & Borders, 3C CREATIVE MALL, 798, Beijing
2012 Intimate Revolutions: Discourse on Disappointment, Siemens Space, Beijing
Awards + Commissions
2024 Arts Council of Ireland Visual Arts Project Award
2024 Culture Moves Europe Award
2023 DLR Lexicon Visual Art Commission Award
2023 Arts Council of Ireland Visual Arts Bursary Award (round 2)
2023 Kildare County Council Arts Act Award
2022 Arts Council of Ireland Visual Arts Bursary Award (round 2)
2022 Arts Council of Ireland Visual Arts Project Award
2022 Creative Ireland Bursary Award
2022 Kildare County Council Arts Act Award
2021 Arts Council of Ireland Visual Arts Bursary Award (round 1)
2021 Creative Ireland Bursary Award
2021 Arts Council of Ireland Agility Award
2020 Kildare County Council Arts Act Award
2019 Arts Council of Ireland Visual Arts Bursary Award (round 2)
2019 Arts Council of Ireland Travel & Training Award
2019/20 Temple Bar Gallery + Studio's Project Studio Award
2019 Commission, The European Commission, IT
2019 Kildare County Council Arts Act Award
2018 Creative Ireland Bursary Award
2017 Arts Council of Ireland Project Award
2017 Arts Council of Ireland Travel & Training Award
2017 Kildare County Council Arts Act Award
2016 Kildare County Council Arts Act Award
2014 Arts Council of Ireland Artist in the Community Scheme Project Realization Award
2014 Arts Council of Ireland Artist in the Community Scheme Research and Development Award
Artist Talks, Events & Screenings:
2023 Artist talk with Cliodhna Shaffery, Highlanes Municipal Gallery, midnight zone exhibition
2023 Glitch, Err & Blur: Navigating Sites of Messy Production, event, various site, Co. Kildare
2022 of ephemeral measure: volume 1, Artist Book launch, Studio 6, TBG+S
2022 Murky Waters Film Festival outdoor screening, Portobello Prom, Edinburgh, Scotland
2022 of ephemeral measure Walkshops, Irish Peatlands Conservation Council, Hartwell Farm & Carton Estate
2021 Dublin Art Book Fair: Manual, TBG+S, invited artist
2021 SHUL Artist Talk, Martina O’Brien, Christine Mackey and Aideen Barry
2020 Dublin Art Book Fair: Design as an Attitude, TBG+S, invited artist
2020 Talking about talking / Speaking through speech: Lunchtime conversation with Martina O’Brien, TBG+S
2019 Every Single Morning, Artist Book launch, Studio 6, TBG+S
2019 Dublin Art Book Fair: Art & Architecture: Learning from the Bauhaus, TBG+S, invited artist
2019 The Art of Citizen-Science: Monitoring a Climate Crisis Symposium, Maynooth University
2018 Quotidian: Art, Climate Change and Citizen-Scientists, Maynooth University
2017 Screening, In the Open, Sheffield, UK
2016 Screening, Being in Place: The Highs and Lows of Situated Practice, University of Dundee, Scotland
Collections:
Butler Gallery Permanent Collection
The Office of Public Works
An Bord Altranais
Earlsfort Group
Private collections