My life is connected to two countries. My parents emigrated from Ireland to the US in the ’50s. They moved back to Ireland when I was 7 where I lived between the urban world of Dublin city and rural country life in the west of Ireland. I returned to the US in my mid-twenties, my “home away from home”.
In my work, I consider how surface has the ability to hold memory and experience. Histories leave impressions in the land, structures, and of course people. Evidence of these histories is sometimes visible and other times permeates the atmosphere.
As I examine my images and delve into archival family photographs, the moments that look back at me reveal connective tissue between the past and the present as they explore themes of belonging, memory structures, and cultural identity.
Selected Exhibitions
2023 Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Juried Exhibition, Dublin, Ireland
2023 Honorable Mention
The Artist Intervenes, Curated by Aline Smithson, Praxis Gallery, Minneapolis,
2023 Honorable Mention
Home: Poetics of Place, Curated by Praxis Gallery Directors, Praxis Gallery, Minneapolis,
2023 Honorable Mention
Portraits, Self & Others, Curated by, Aline Smithson, PhotoPlace Gallery, Vermont,
2022 Poetry of the Ordinary, Curated by Henry Horenstein, PhotoPlace Gallery, Vermont,
2022 Short-listed, Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Juried Exhibition, Dublin, Ireland
2022 Annual Members Exhibition, Tilt Institute for the Contemporary Image, Philadelphia
2022 Conversations with the Archive, Curated by Aline Smithson, SE Center for Photography, South Carolina
2022 Black White & Monochrome, Curated by Douglas Beasley, SE Center for Photography, South Carolina
2021 Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Juried Exhibition, Dublin, Ireland
2021 In The Commons, Curated by Lori Waselchuck, Philadelphia Photo Arts Center
2021 Annual Members Exhibition, Philadelphia Photo Arts Center, Philadelphia
2021 20/20 Photo Festival, Curated by Cynthia Rivera, Wanderlife Gallery, Philadelphia
2019 Annual Members Exhibition, Philadelphia Photo Arts Center, Philadelphia
2018 Annual Members Exhibition, Philadelphia Photo Arts Center, Philadelphia
2016 Swing State, Curated by Rebecca Flake, Little Berlin Gallery, Philadelphia
Selected Publications
2023 Particular Merit Mention
All About Photo Photographer of the Year:
2023 The 2023 Love Exhibition, Curated by Aline Smithson, Lenscratch
2023 Favorite Photograph You Took in 2022, Curated by Aline Smithson, Lenscratch
2022 What Will You Remember, Curated by Ellin Spring,