ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS

• PhD in Creative Writing (2020) Goldsmiths University, London.
• MPhil in Creative Writing, (2014) Goldsmiths University, London.
• Teaching Creativity Module, Irish Centre for Poetry Studies (2013) Mater Dei Institute.
• Module in Rural Arts, (2009) GMIT, Galway.
• Dioplóma sa Ghaeilge (Bliain 1) NUI, Galway.
• MA in Writing, NUI Galway, (2006) NUI, Galway.
• MA (Research) Psychology, (1996) UCD, Belfield, Dublin 4.
• BA (Hons.) Psychology, (1992) UCD, Belfield, Dublin 4.
• NCVA Certificate in Visual Education (1987) GMIT, Galway.

 

MEMBERSHIPS

• Cúl an Tí Artist Collective I am a member of the Cúl an Tí Collective.
• Interface Inagh
• VAI

 

SELECTION OF PUBLISHED WORDS & WHERE TO FIND THEM:

• Gorse, Short Fiction (forthcoming)
• Winter Papers, Short Fiction
• Mercurius, Short Fiction
• The Lonely Crowd (Issue 12) – ‘The Skink’
• The Stinging Fly - ‘Pilgrimage, or The Liminal Situation of a Connemara Erratic’
• Galway Stories (2020, Doire Press) – ‘John’
• The Dublin Review - ‘Maybe because…’
• The Doolin Festival Fiction Winner – ‘Sing’ (Judged by Tramp Press)
• The Stinging Fly - ‘Famine: An Artwork’
• The Stinging Fly – ‘A Woman of Thirty’
• Banshee – ‘'She Danced Across the Wastelands'
• Noir by Noir-West (Arlen House) – ‘A tell-tale, hot milk and other relevant things’
• Inkroci – ‘Aoife Casby – What Happens In The Hours In Between?’
• Criterion – ‘The Sack race’
• Ropes Journal – ‘Xylem & Phloem’
• The Cork Literary Review – ‘Some of Us Humans Are Beautiful’
• Divas Anthology (edited by Nuala Ní Chonchúir)
• Whispers and Shouts – ‘They Took a Monkey and Dog With Them’
• Poetry: Stand Magazine, Poetry Ireland, The sHop, Envoi, Cyphers, The Interpreter's House, Iota, Poetry Salzburg, Orbis, The Sunday Tribune, Crannóg, Windows Artists & Writers Series, Smoke & Skin (a chapbook with Celeste Augé) was published in 2008 by Lapwing.

 

VISUAL ART - PROJECTS / COMMISSIONS / RESIDENCIES

• 'Aer' (2026) Forthcoming (with Cúl an Tí supported by Ealaín na Gaeltachta, Galway Co. Council, Arts Council)
• 'Farraige' (2025) A series of mixed media works & a zine based on maps and local stories/memories related to quays, slips and other accesses to the sea on the Carraroe Peninsula. (with Cúl an Tí supported by Ealaín na Gaeltachta, Galway Co. Council, Arts Council)
• 'Talamh' (2025) A series of drawings and a collection of colour based on crayons made with wax from our local native black bee and colour extracted from the landscape & from objects found in the landscape. It included a series of texts & images that used a phone screen size as a parameter. The text & images were based on walks and exploration of object & language in a specific landscape- the unused farm.  (with Cúl an Tí supported by Ealaín na Gaeltachta, Galway Co. Council, Arts Council)
• 'Iompú' (2025) Time-based Video Installation that used the method f working with a scythe in a field as the basis for its orientation. Scything becomes a form of meditation & considered orientation of the body with the earth. (with Cúl an Tí supported by Ealaín na Gaeltachta, Galway Co. Council, Arts Council)
• 'Faoi Bhláth' (2024) An installation of object and landscape collected based on walks taken by locals in the the Carraroe area across a season. The collection was presented in glass bottles based on the map.  (with Cúl an Tí supported by Ealaín na Gaeltachta, Galway Co. Council, Arts Council)
• 'Gealach na gCoinleach' (2024) Paintings made from inks created from blackberries. Text written in reponse to traditions around the Gealach na gCoinleach ( Harvest Moon) with Cúl an Tí supported by Ealaín na Gaeltachta, Galway Co. Cuncil, Arts Council) (with Cúl an Tí supported by Ealaín na Gaeltachta, Galway Co. Council, Arts Council
• 'THE COUNTRY I WOULD LIKE TO LIVE IN'  (2024/5) Residency with Primary Schools in Co, Mayo where pupils produced a Poetry Assemblage Box with poems, stories, and books in response to dialogues around social, culturla & economic ideas of their ideal country. Each group also produced a sound piece accessed through QR code based on their own writings and voice and sound collected.

• 'Tairseach' (2023) (with Cúl an Tí supported by Ealaín na Gaeltachta, Galway Co. Council, Arts Council)
• 'Tomhais' (2022) Commission from PobalRua / Ealaín na Gaeltachta. Tomhais is a sound & interactive doorway installation created in relation to the interpretation of and traditional use of riddles (tomhais) in the community. 
• 'Chaith Sí an Lá ag Feamnú' (2023) Westport Sculpture Festival. Collaboration with artist Lelia Ni CHathnmhaoil, this was a large installation on a lake of a  work using sails of a Galway Hooker. Language & stories of Irish speakers & the relationship to the gathering and using of seaweed in daily life from the water to the table were the basis of an outdoor sound installation that was part of the production. 

• ‘God’s Little Cow’ (2020) is a language-based sound and sculptural object installation (for which I was awarded a PhD from Goldsmiths). This project serves as a practical reading experience of multi-modal work necessitated by an understanding of language that demands to be seen inall its materialities.
• 'A Word For...' -The Kelp Congress, Lofoten International Arts Festival (201920) I was selected to participate in The Kelp Congress at LIAF where I produced a floor based text map, handmade books and audio installation as a result of artistic research during the Kelp Congress workshops. As a result of my participation I produced a text that has been published (and translated) for the bi-lingual Kelp Publication (2020) (https://2019.liaf.no/en/news/the-kelp-congress/)
• ‘Feamainn’, Galway, 2019. [Installation based on seaweed, and relationship to potato growing]
• ‘Unidentified’, A Quintych of paintings, Westival, Westport Arts Festival, Oct. 2018.
• ‘Hello / Dia Dhuit’, An installation of postcard & sound; image & word; seeing & translation. Traidpicnic Festival Artist, Cúl an Tí , Co. Galway, Jun 2018
• ‘Word’, A sound and sculptural installation responding to work by poet Geraldine Mitchell, Mind Has Moutains Exhibition, Cúirt International Festival, April 2018.
• Quintych, Áras Éanna, Inish Oirr, Co. Galway, 2017 (Paintings)
• ‘Mayo God Help Us!’, Group Exhibition, Claremorris Gallery, Co. Mayo, October 2015. (Marginalis selected for show by Catherine Marshall, former head of Collections at IMMA and Patrick Murphy, director of the RHA)
• ‘Ealta’ Group Exhibition, Oireachtas Chois Fharraige , Co. Galway, September 2014
• 'Teibí', Carraroe, Co. Galway, August 2012
• 'PRESERVATION OF HOME (I AM FROM C_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _', COE 2010, An installation of found object and text, Claremorris, Co. Mayo.
• 'Detritus: See Shore Sea', Castlebar General Hospital, Co. Mayo
• 'Craiceann & Waysides', Galway City Museum, with Dan O'Flatharta.
• 'Detritus: See Shore Sea', The Atrium Gallery, Longford
• 'Connecting Through Scape', Collaborative Project with artists from Scotland and Ireland. Exhibition for Pléarácá Festival
• ​'Claiocha & Clocha', Pléaráca Festival, Galway County Library, Carraroe, Co. Galway
• 'Inscapes & Outscapes', Claremorris Art Gallery, Town Hall, Claremorris, Co. Mayo
• 'Who I Am' Mayo General Hospital, Castlebar, Co. Mayo
• Fís, Focail is Feamainn, Document Project, Collaboration with writers and artists, NUI Gallery, Galway.

 

AWARDS / PRIZES

• Literature Bursary, The Arts Council, 2022
• Agility Award, The Arts Council, 2022
• Visual Artists’ Bursary, Ealaín na Gaeltachta, 2020
• Winner of The Doolin Short Story Prize, 2017
• Long listed for the Seán Ó Faoláin Short Story Award, 2016
• Short Listed for the Fish Short Story Prize, 2016
• Literature Bursary from Galway County Council, 2016
• Runner-up Westport Arts Festival Poetry Prize, 2012
• Writer-In-Residence, University Archive, University of Westminster, London, 2011/2
• Artist's Bursary Literature Award from the Irish Arts Council in 2010
• Long listed for the Fish International Poetry Prize, 2008; Winner of the Edgeworth Poetry
• Prize 2008; Shortlisted for the Hennessey Literary Award for Emerging Poetry 2008;
• Shortlisted for the Start Chapbook Poetry Award; Poetry Ireland's Introductions Series 2007;
• Literature Award from Galway Co. Council 2007; Shortlisted for the Cúirt Festival of
• Literature New Writing Prize in 2005; Long listed for the Fish Short Story prize in 2004, 2009, 2021