It’s taken me a while to get around to editing this highlight reel of my live art performance with chocolate, ‘The Sweets Of Sin’, at Mallow Arts Festival 2024. Strength, vulnerability and the visceral melt together, collapsing the boundary between the performer and the observer in this 35-minute live performance. In this edited video you...Read More

Dirty Little Fuckbird, was exhibited at ‘Breaking the Patterns Vol. 2.0’ at the Galería del Antiquarium, Sevilla from 11 July – 11 August 2024. This selection of these ceramic sculptures, image-based works and live performance are the results from a 3-month residency funded by Capacity Ireland, Artlinks, Third Sector International, Lab Sevilla, Creative Europe and...Read More

Here are some highlights from my 15-minute performance at the opening of ‘Breaking The Patterns Vol. 02’ group exhibition running 11th July – 11th August 2024 at Galería del Antiqvarium, Sevilla. This performance seeks to create a sense of wonder at what a body can do and to explore the collective consciousness of signifiers surrounding...Read More

Here is a little glimpse into the making of my iconic chocolate stilettos! This is definitely my favourite live art performance piece. Performed for a handful of different audiences with a ‘fresh’ pair of chocolate heels each time, the act is an autobiographical exploration of identity and becoming. Like all my live art, it also...Read More

In the tiny mirror of my eyeshadow palette, I hardly recognise who I am anymore. Red lipstick bleeding into brown over my cheekbones and creeping upwards and across my forehead, hair strewn asunder. I survey the scene; remnants of chocolate are embedded into the carpet in streaks like the imprints of a wild animal roaming...Read More

This is me, after taking the final bow and closing the show having made my performance at the closing night of our ‘Polyphonic Textures’ graduation exhibition at Limerick School of Art & Design, 12/09/2023. ‘But do you really need to go back to art school?’ one of my colleagues seated at the boardroom table asks...Read More

It’s an emotional time as I have just completed my Masters Degree in Fine Art at Limerick School of Art & Design. My classmates and I opened our graduation exhibition, ‘Polyphonic Textures’, which is a culmination of our work over the past 12 months, at the Church Gallery at LSAD in Limerick city. This Fine...Read More

Public speaking is just a vocal act of storytelling, a performance in itself. Since I am comfortable with talking out of my arts, I have been thinking that it would be advantageous to start a podcast about the social history of pole dancing in Ireland, through an autotheoretical lens. However, to my horror, I saw...Read More

According to performance artist Amanda Coogan in her writing What is Performance Art?, there is an important distinction between live performance art and performative work; the former being a durational presentation that takes place in a location involving an audience to witness it, and the latter a recording or representation of a live performance work...Read More

Carolina Are has written extensively about the use of social media, in particular that of Instagram, in the dissemination of content by sex-positive, sex-work and sex-work adjacent creators. According to Are ‘…women’s bodies and their performance of specific activities can both be a form of expression and a source of income’ (2019). She highlights that...Read More