What's it all about?

I work with insects, visual arts, music, movement and play as resources to facilitate creative expression, scientific curiosity, and connection with nature, each other, and ourselves. I also portray insects in painting, print and video to show the world why I love them and why we can’t live without them.

Highlights

• Forthcoming: Things We Wish We Learned At School, Soft Blond Moustache and Superprojects, 2026

• Forthcoming: Moth Mapping with Creative Places Darndale for Cruinniú na nÓg, 2025.

• Un-BUG-lievable sculpture workshops with Sophie von Maltzan, Hunt Museum, Limerick, 2024.

• Going Underground with Ants video, Irish Schools Sustainability Network, 2024.

• Blakestown Micro Forest workshop, Dublin, 2024.

• Metamorfosis, collaboration with public space artist Carla López Espinoza, Jérica, Spain, 2024.

• Exploring Biodiversity & Ecology Through Creativity & Culture, Europass Teacher Academy, 2023.

• Drawing Inspiration from the Wisdom of Woodlice video, Irish Schools Sustainability Network, 2022.

• Singing and Nature Walk, Heritage Week, with Annie Flynn, Leixlip Library, Kildare, 2022.

• Nature and Healing, Christchurch Cathedral, Dublin, 2022.

• Our Natural Habitat with Dublin Bay Biosphere Partnership, 2021.

• Mentorship with Bee Time (Spain), supported by the Arts Council, 2021.

• The Virtual Rambling House, supported by Creative Ireland and Offaly County Council, 2021.

• Ireland’s Trees and Their Insect Inhabitants, online workshops, 2021.

• Discovery Gospel Choir online workshops, 2020.

• Collaboration with Geashill National School and Tidy Towns, Co. Offaly, 2019

• Discover Beauty in Everyone, teachers’ intercultural music resource, 2019

• Ladybird paintings for the launch of Dublin Naturalists’ Field Club recording scheme, 2019

• Botanical illustrations, private commission, December 2018

• Insect folklore video workshops with Midlands Science at Portarlington Library, November 2018.

• Learning From The Bees conference exhibition, Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam, 7 - 17th September 2018.

• Science and art combine to protect Ireland’s struggling pollinators, interview and video for GreenNews.ie, August 2018

• Wild Postcard Project with SEED Madagascar, Sainte Luce, January 2018

• Bugonia, solo exhibition at Bí Urban, Stoneybatter, November - December 2017

• Remembrance Day for Lost Species: Poetry and Music Evening and Pollinator Video Workshop, St. Michan's Church, November 2017

• Rove Beetle, a Dublin Canvas commission, September 2017.

• More Than Bees: Lesser known tips for pollinator conservation, a participatory video project, August 2017.

• Bee Time Artist Residency, UK, July 2017

• Past member and exhibitor at Ormond Studios (2016)

• Open Studio Crit at Mart Studios (25th July 2016)

• The Beauty of Bugs, a two page feature by Cónal Thomas in Dublin InQuirer (Issue 5: September 2016)

• Singer, Community Officer and promotional design work for Discovery Gospel Choir, Ireland's leading intercultural choir (February 2016 - present)

• UCD Innovation Academy mentorship (Endeavour award) with Eileen Diskin of Biodiversity Beermats and The Wild Postcard Project (2015)

• Children's art classes and promotion of local crafts in Madagascar (2014)

• Exhibitions in Ireland, Japan, Romania. Hover over the images below to see where they have been shown.

• Christmas Card designs (2010, 2016)

• Soft Blonde Moustache drawing, singing, playing collective with Mary-Jo Gilligan, Julia McConville and Aileen Murphy (2008 - present). Highlights include a solo exhibition and book launch at Monster Truck, a solo exhibition in Studio 8, Ljubljana, and 'Cyanotis binocularis', a Darwin-inspired installation at the Royal Irish Academy, as part of the Douglas Hyde Gallery's Preponderance of the Small.

• BA in Fine Art Print, National College of Art and Design.

• Member of the Defastenist Movement.

Scroll down further to see a selection of my work over the years...