researcher and writer for townland archive for four parishes in Sperrins area
2015-2016 20:20 Visions (the Corrymeela Community)
artist and facilitator
2015 Connecting Commemorative Communities (Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded project with University of Ulster)
community engagement facilitator and exhibition curator
2014-2016 On the Brink: the Politics of Conflict 1914-1916 (Causeway and Mid-Antrim Museum Services)
learning resources development and workshop facilitator
2014 Causeway AONB Townlands, Fieldnames and Feature Names (Causeway Coast and Glens Heritage Trust)
researcher and writer of interpretive exhibition
2014 1613 and All That! (Focus on Family)
ghost author of community group publication on plantation of Coleraine, co-facilitator of mapping workshop
2014 The Townlands of Ballinascreen (Sperrins Gateway Landscape Partnership)
project manager, researcher and writer of interpretive exhibition
2012-2013 Binevenagh Townlands and Fieldnames (Causeway Coast and Glens Heritage Trust)
project manager, researcher and writer of interpretive exhibition
2012-2014 A Sense of the Past: a Social History of Blindness in Northern Ireland (Heritage Lottery Fund-supported project with RNIB)
researcher and author of publication, exhibition development
visual art
2017 ‘Their Truths’, new artwork supported by Arts Council of Northern Ireland
2016 ‘Trying Identities’, installation in Aground, exhibition and collaborative event with Loci art collective, Moville, County Donegal, supported by Donegal 2016: Cultural Expression programme
2016 Sea Change, exhibition and collaborative event with Loci art collective, Queen’s Marine Laboratory, Portaferry, supported by Ards and North Down Borough Council
2013 ‘the disappeared’, multimedia installation in Upending, group exhibition in Limerick City Gallery of Art
2012-2013 ‘Landscapes of the Big House’, collaborative visual/textual research project carried out with Miriam de Búrca and funded by Arts Council of Northern Ireland
2012 ‘(re)writing’, multimedia installation in The Border, exhibition with Garrett Carr and Adrian Duncan, the Dock, Carrick-on-Shannon
2011 ‘inclined to wander: part two’, slide installation in Commons, exhibition with Sarah Browne and Fiona Woods, Leitrim Sculpture Centre, Manorhamilton
interdisciplinary work
2010-2013 Troubling Ireland (Kuratorisk Aktion and Firestation Artists’ Studios)
cultural geographer and writer
2009-2011 Rhyzom, European network of cultural organisations examining local cultural production
researcher, writer and artist
2009-2010 Fields of Vision, Leitrim Sculpture Centre, Manorhamilton (funded through PEACE III)
development of funding proposal and artists’ brief, curation and evaluation
research
2005-2008 research associate on Irish Border/lands: Cultural Geographies of Division, Interconnection and Diversity, University of Ulster and Queen Mary, University of London (irishborderlands.com)
oral history researcher and co-author of book
selected publications
‘Trying Identities: Roger Casement and Erskine Childers’, forthcoming in The Irish Review, 2017
‘The Elephant in the Room: Colonialism, Postcolonialism and Northern Ireland’, pp229-241 in Historical Geography, vol.42, 2014
‘Troubling Ireland: a Cultural Geographer’s Perspective’, pp23-28 in Art and Activism, Dublin, Fire Station Artists’ Studios, 2014 (also at troublingireland.com/essay/essay)
(with Brian Graham and Catherine Nash) Partitioned Lives: the Irish Borderlands, Farnham, Ashgate, 2013
