Practice
2024 An Dún, Array Collective Immersive Installation, Courtyard Galleries “Self Determination” Irish Museum of Modern Art.
2023 The Slapper: Regalia – Array Collective, Sculpture in: “Self Determination” Irish Museum of Modern Art.
2023 Array Collective, Shortlisted to represent Ireland at Venice Biennale.
2023 The Druthaib’s Ball’, Array Collective Turner Prize, Ulster Museum.
2022 Keynote at Courtauld Inst on queer and feminist art in NI.
2022 Speaker at Royal Ulster Academy art and the abortion movement in NI.
2022 The Druthaib’s Ball Array Collective Turner Prize, Galway Arts Centre.
2022 When they put their hands out like scales, PhotoIreland 2022.
2022 A History In Numbers Feminist Constitutions commission NI Screen & University of Birmingham.
2022 A Bigger Picture - Queer/Feminist Art, Golden Thread Gallery.
2022 Collage: A Political Act (2022) Talk at Ulster Museum.
2022 Ladies Should visit, print acquired by Ulster Museum Collage: A Political Act.
2021 The Druthaib’s Ball’, Array Collective Turner Prize, The Herbert Coventry.
2021 NOW 100 The Mac Belfast Commission for 100 years of NI.
December 2020 - Consent in Media: From Doris Day to Normal People
December 2020 – “Raising Woke Kids”, Northern Ireland Human Rights Festival
October 2020 – Mactivate Social groups in collaboration with The MAC Belfast
August 2020 – “Pride in our Hearts” Array Studios Street Intervention
June 2020 – “Making Change Through Institutions and Archives” Artists Make Change workshop, Array Studios and ANartists Info
May 2020 - https://youtu.be/txX9NwCJJUQ Array video essay as 1 of 5 case studies for “Artists Make Change”
May 2020 – ”Never Rarely Sometimes Always” roundtable with the directors – Birds Eye View ‘Reclaim the Frame”
April 2020 – ‘This Cunt Bites Back’ Print for “She Sells Sanctuary” Women’s refuge project
February 2020 - Curation and facilitation of the Abortion in Arts and Film night at the Inroads International Global Gathering Conference
December 2019 – 'If you don't play the game, don't make the rules' symposium presented by Array as part of the exhibition Collaborate!
October 2019 – “An Appropriate Hobby” Street art intervention
October 2019 – “As others see us” Jerwood Collaborate! As Array Studios Collective
August 2019 – “As Others See Us”, Pride parade performance, Array Studios
July 2019 – KLASS ART – Array Studios Group show
June 2019 – ‘Thanks Dad' , BBC Radio4 Listening Project @arraystudios members and long-time comrades Clodagh Lavelle and Emma Campbell
March 2019 – IWD Array Collective Performance
March 2019 – “209 Women” Open Eye Gallery Group Show, Liverpool
March 2019 – Interview with Northern Narratives’ Tracy Marshall
February 2019 – The Nolan Show Guest Appearance
January 2019 – “Reimagining Global Abortion Politics” Book Launch and Solo Exhibition
December 2018 - “209 Women” Group Show, Palace of Westminster
October 2018 – ‘Demolition is not a Means’ Array Group Show and street art project
April 2018 – Host of poop-up screening, “In conversation with Clio Barnard”, director of The Arbour! Array & Household Belfast
March 2018 – Group Show for Intl Women’s Day Lunasa, Belfast
February 2018 – “Those Actual Words” Array group show at Framewerk, Belfast
January 2018 – My Body My Life exhibition, Foyles Gower Street London
December 2017 – My Body My Life exhibition in Belfast
August 2017 – Postcard for the Abortion Rights Campaign
MATERNITY LEAVEMarch 2017 – WANDA – Feminism and moving image festival Belfast
December 2016 – Street Art Bites Back – Framewerks, Belfast
October 2016 – Someone you Love Group Show - Copper House Gallery
October 2016 – A Suitable Hobby – Film Base, Dublin
September 2016 – Street Art Bites Back, Belfast
June 2016 – Labour of Love with Siobhan Clancy and Melissa Madera
March 2016 – Feminist Judging Project When they Put their hands out like scales, Framewerk Belfast
March 2016 – A Suitable Hobby and When they put their hands out like scales, Bangkok (INROADS Stigma Busting International Gathering)
June 2016 – Two for Many, Pollen Studios, Belfast
Member of Home|Work collective in Dublin Sept-Dec 2015
Oct-Nov 2015 – Two for Many, Trans Art Cavan, Array Studios collective show
Oct 2015 - Array Studios – “A suitable hobby” Solo show
Summer 2015 – Array Studios PHD residency – passport butterflies project “A suitable hobby”
June 2015 – Black Box Belfast – Silt and Stones: Instagram 4 women, 1 poet, 3 photographers project
May 2015 - "A Feminist Lens" Group show with Clare Gallagher and Laura O'Connor, Remote Photo Festival Donegal
March 2015 & 2016 International Women’s Day – documentation and participation
January 2015 – The Abortion Support Network do a Book reprint of “When they put their hands out like scales” as prizes
December 2014 Stockholm – “Pack up your troubles” Panrummet Gallery Sweden
December 2014 - Stockholm – presentation, collaboration and discussion
December 2014 – Belfast Platform – collaboration with Nicole Werniger
October 2014 - Vitamin F – Art as activism workshops with Belfast Feminist Network
September 2014 – solo show Platform “When they put their hands out like scales” showing the progression of the abortion journey through the progression in my work from 2011 – 201
August 2014 – ARC invitation to talk at Miss Y protest at the gates of the Dail Eireann
July 2014 - Belfast Exposed – in progress work with Women on Waves archives and historical research
June 2014 - Amsterdam Women on Waves discussion and interview
March 2014 – month long residency at OKK Gallery Berlin with solo show
July 2014, 3 weeks residency - Belfast Exposed – making work using the archive material from Women on Waves in Amsterdam. (see documentation)
March 2013 - Solo Show “When they put their hands out like scales”, Copper House Gallery, Dublin
Featured in
2018 – Work cited in - Chan, S. (2018). Speaking of silence, speaking of art, abortion and Ireland. Irish Studies Review, 27(1), pp.73–93.
May 2018 – Work used on cover of: “Reimagining global abortion politics; A social justice perspective” By Fiona Bloomer, Claire Pierson and Sylvia Estrada Claudio published by Bristol University Press 2018
April 2018 – Work critiqued by Dr. Suzanna Chan (University of Ulster) ‘Anxiously Present: The Northern Irish Landscape in Recent Photographic Work by Emma Campbell and Mary McIntyre Panel 3.1: ‘Northern Irish Women’s Cultural Production Post-Agreement’ featured in An Academic Public Engagement Project on the 20th Anniversary of the Good Friday Agreement. Irish World Heritage Centre, Manchester
March 2017 – Publication of artworks in “Female Lines Anthology” on women’s work from Northern Ireland, edited by Dawn Sherrat-Bado
December/January 2014/5 – Ottar magazine on 40 years of abortion rights
Academic and Professional Qualifications
2020 - 2024 University of Ulster PhD Researcher (part-time)
2010 - 2012 University of Ulster MFA in Photography
1998 - 2001 U.W.C.N Newport Documentary Photography BA (Hons) 2:1
1997 - 1998 University of Ulster Foundation in Art and Design
Career History
2014 - present Array Studios Collective Member
2001 – present Freelance Artist / Photographer
2015 – present Co-Chair, Alliance for Choice Belfast
2013 – 2015 Vice-Chair, Alliance for Choice Belfast
2010 – 2013 Audience Development, SOURCE Photographic Review
2010 – 2013 Photography Workshop Leader, Belfast Exposed
2007 – 2009 Picture Editor, The Times, London
2003 – 2006 Picture Campaign Manager, BBC, London
2002 - 2003 Picture Syndication, The Independent, London
2001 – 2002 Picture Researcher, Network Photographic Agency
2001 Photographers Assistant, Christopher Hill, Belfast
Press – Highlights below - all clickable links - with full list here
2020 - Legal Abortion Begins in Northern Ireland.
2019 - As Northern Ireland decriminalises abortion, let’s celebrate the women who got us here.
2018 – It’s only the North’s leaders who say “no” to abortion rights
2018 – Sisterhood and screenshots. The role of memes in #repealthe8th
2018 – Fertile Ground: reframing the abortion experience in art and activism, Hero Magazine, April
2018 – Shine Theory In Zagreb: Pizza For Four with Artists Emma Campbell and Siobhán Clancy, The RJ Happy Hour Podcast
2018 – How to Capture the 8th Amendment – College Tribune, March
2017 – Meet the Irish Photographer Documenting Women in Ireland Who Must Travel Abroad for Safe Abortion
2017 – My Body My Life Aims to Challenge Abortion Stigma
2016 – Someone you love at Copper house
2016 –”Think women seeking abortion in Northern Ireland have other options? Here’s the reality” Guardian, Opinion April
2015- Reclaim the Agenda, NVTV
2013 - The Works, RTE
2013 - Prism
2013 - The Irish Times
2012 - Huffington Post
2012 – Source Magazine Graduate Selection by Brian Dillon