About
I completed a photography degree at the Dublin Institute of Technology in 2006.
In 2007 I have been awarded an ABBEST scholarship at the DIT Centre for Transcultural Research and Media Practice, which promotes the use of lens-based practice allied to ethnographic methods in social research, engaged with questions of migration and globalization. I am at present a PhD candidate at the centre, and my current research work, titled 'Contesting Citizenship: Undocumented Migrants, Urban Spaces and Grassroots Social Activism in Italy, examines migrants constituencies and urban social practices in the city of Turin.
Exhibitions
2009-11 'Landside/Airside', Jeune Création Européenne. Biennale Itinerante d'Art Contemporain (France, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Austria, Italy, Spain, Portugal)
2009-10 'OPENCities' Photographic Exhibition around European
cities, sponsored by the British Council (Dublin,
Belfast, Bilbao, Vienna, Sofia, Dusseldorf, Poznan,
Bucharest, Madrid, Cardiff)
2007 '5 Degrees - an exhibition of recent graduates',
Art at The Ivy House, Dublin
2006 Student Art Awards, Royal Dublin Society, Dublin
Awards/Selections
2007 'Transit', Honorable Mention, International Photography
Awards
2006 'Under-ground', Silver Place Winner, London Photographic
Association
Selected Conferences
2009
'Alternative Practices of Active Citizenship: A Visual Ethnography of Migrants in Turin', Visualising Migration and Divided Societies Conference, Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Paris 8.
'Inhabiting the Cityscape of Turin: "Illegal Citizens" and Urban Social Practices', Living Cultures - Contemporary Ethnographies of Culture Conference, Institute of Communication Studies, University of Leeds.
2008
‘Migrants and Urban Practices of Social Inclusion: Images from Turin’, AVPhD Symposium, University of Wales, Newport, UK.
2007
‘Undocumented Migrants, Citizenship and Autonomous Social Practices in the Italian Urban Landscape’, Global Photographies: Histories, Theories, Practices Conference, Institute of Art, Design & Technology, Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin, Ireland.
In 2007 I have been awarded an ABBEST scholarship at the DIT Centre for Transcultural Research and Media Practice, which promotes the use of lens-based practice allied to ethnographic methods in social research, engaged with questions of migration and globalization. I am at present a PhD candidate at the centre, and my current research work, titled 'Contesting Citizenship: Undocumented Migrants, Urban Spaces and Grassroots Social Activism in Italy, examines migrants constituencies and urban social practices in the city of Turin.
Exhibitions
2009-11 'Landside/Airside', Jeune Création Européenne. Biennale Itinerante d'Art Contemporain (France, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary, Austria, Italy, Spain, Portugal)
2009-10 'OPENCities' Photographic Exhibition around European
cities, sponsored by the British Council (Dublin,
Belfast, Bilbao, Vienna, Sofia, Dusseldorf, Poznan,
Bucharest, Madrid, Cardiff)
2007 '5 Degrees - an exhibition of recent graduates',
Art at The Ivy House, Dublin
2006 Student Art Awards, Royal Dublin Society, Dublin
Awards/Selections
2007 'Transit', Honorable Mention, International Photography
Awards
2006 'Under-ground', Silver Place Winner, London Photographic
Association
Selected Conferences
2009
'Alternative Practices of Active Citizenship: A Visual Ethnography of Migrants in Turin', Visualising Migration and Divided Societies Conference, Maison des Sciences de l'Homme, Paris 8.
'Inhabiting the Cityscape of Turin: "Illegal Citizens" and Urban Social Practices', Living Cultures - Contemporary Ethnographies of Culture Conference, Institute of Communication Studies, University of Leeds.
2008
‘Migrants and Urban Practices of Social Inclusion: Images from Turin’, AVPhD Symposium, University of Wales, Newport, UK.
2007
‘Undocumented Migrants, Citizenship and Autonomous Social Practices in the Italian Urban Landscape’, Global Photographies: Histories, Theories, Practices Conference, Institute of Art, Design & Technology, Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin, Ireland.