RECENT VISUAL  ART PROJECTS

GALLERY IS CURRENTLY BEING UPDATED & WILL BE LIVE SPRING 2026.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR PATIENCE.

 

  • 'Aer' (2026) Forthcoming (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.
  • 'Gealach na gCoinleach' (2024) Paintings made with handmade inks. 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
  • '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)
  • 'Iompú' (2025) Time-based Video Installation that used the method of 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)
  • '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)
  • '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)
  • 'Tairseach' Found object & portrait mixed media installation. (2023) (with Cúl an Tí supported by Ealaín na Gaeltachta, Galway Co. Council, Arts Council)
  • 'Chaith sí an Lá ag Feamnú' (2022) Westport Sculpture Festival. 

‘Chaith sí an lá ag feamnú’ (Aoife Casby & Lelia Ni Chathmhaoil) is a collaborative contemporary sound / installation sculpture designed for exhibition to float on water. It addresses, through a fun exploration of language and always new, adapting, regenerative, ever changing seaweed, the shifting narrative of our relationship to the sea as a site of recreation, work, pain and hope. This language is in our vocabulary as Irish people even if we are unaware of it. Seaweed has a long history of domestic and commercial use in Ireland and in recent times is part of a global revolution as a material that contributes to our attempts to address climate change. In this work we want to highlight the deep connection of a rich and active language related to seaweeds, the visible and the invisible, to our relationship to the sea. This sculpture, its references and materials, incorporate the west coast’s past and current economic life and reawakens our rapport to seaweed. It is an active, fun and empowering visit into the Irish Language. The human condition is reflected and refracted in nature.

  • ‘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 in all its materialities.
  • ‘The Kelp Congress’, Lofoten International Arts Festival (2019) 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] Book made from Seaweed Paper, Seaweed Sculptures, Video, Forms of potato. 
  • ‘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, 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.