I’m a writer and artist working with text, image and performance. From Ireland, I now live and work in South West England. I make solo and collaborative performance works that use language, gesture, and digital interfaces to examine how individuals are shaped by cultural and social forces. Works look at the performer’s body as policed by economic, political and cultural narratives, at how ‘voice’ functions to place someone, and at how language can perpetuate inequalities.
Recent live projects include ‘twiceness’ with Shelley Hodgson (Devon and Cornwall, 2024-25) , ‘cream of the crop’ (Plymouth, 2024), ‘revised dictionary supplement’ (Plymouth, Falmouth, 2022), ‘Breath Pieces’ with Rosanna Irvine (Glasgow, 2018); ‘telling time’ for Jamboree (Dartington, 2018); ’threaded insert’ (Plymouth, 2017; Cardiff, 2018).
Publications include At Sounds Like: 3 Projects (if p then q books, 2021), ‘9×9: a set of poems under constraint’ (ArtsandCultureExeter, 2020), Subject to Gesture (Dock Road Press, 2017) and ’in the key of’ (Counter Plymouth Artist Book Fair, 2015). I have written texts to accompany work by artists including Nathan Walker, Katy Connor, Andrew Kearney, and LOW PROFILE, and critical writing has been published in Hyperrhiz, C21 Literature, Open Letter, Performance Research and Journal of Writing in Creative Practice.
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