I am an artist based in County Galway, I'm a recipient of the Agility Award 2023 and the Galway Arts Centre + Galway Culture Company Bursary 2024. My work takes form through drawing, text, sculpture, moving image, and lecture performance. Stemming from Jack Halberstam’s ideas of queer practice as “a scavenger methodology," gathered images shape narratives that move across mediums through gender, sexuality, and non-static ideas of the Other. “If, in my work, a language through which critique occurs exists, then I must bend that finger right back around.” I am interested in acknowledging how marginalisation, however true and materially effective, can be weaponised and coupled with other privileges to employ Otherness as armour against accountability. Through the work I also consider how ideas of value, defined by a dominant social class as a “system of hierarchies of agreed-upon social worth," are mediated through a queer lens, and how these systems can dismantle or undermine queer solidarity.
