pose | create | consume

For most of art history, the image of a woman was not hers to control.  The angle, the light, expression, context and meaning were all decided without her consent.  

That has changed. And the change is enormous.   

For the first time in the history of portraiture, women are simultaneously the performer, the artist and the viewer. The camera phone gave women an authorship they were long denied. My work begins here, at this moment, because it matters more than we are stopping to recognise. 

I take images of women from social media and pull them apart. Lips are enlarged until they fill the face. Noses are sometimes removed from their context. Features fragmented and rebuilt on  scale that just makes you stop at what we otherwise scroll past. How narrow the ideal is. How relentless it is repeated. How much labour goes into looking effortless. I work across collage, painting and drawing across translucent paper, LED, acrylic and canvas. Each surface changes how the image sits.   

These pieces are not a critique of the women I depict. They are acts of attention and solidarity. Posting an image of yourself is a radical act of authorship. It has been historically withheld, hard won, but exposed.

The confidence in these poses is real. So is the vulnerability.  

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

Upcoming:

2026 – The Body Electric, with Billie Adele, Garter Lane Arts Centre, Waterford

Past

2024 Hidden Worlds, curated by Eamonn Maxwell, Westgate, Wexford

2019 Continuum, Covent Garden, London

2019 MFA graduate exhibition, National College and Art and Design, Dublin 

2019 Circles of Confusion, Civic Centre, Gorey

2018 In Public, In Particular, Dambruggestrat, Antwerp

2018 All Other Places, Point Square, Dublin

2017 Darling Pretty, Rosc House, Gorey

2017 Beats and Pieces, Glebe House, Betts-y-Coed, Wales

AWARDS

2025 Artlinks Bursary Award

RESIDENCIES

Upcoming: Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Annaghmakerrig