Spatial practice
Explore how an idea takes shape through space: installations, temporary structures, gathering places and interventions in everyday environments.
Art + Collaboration
I develop artistic and spatial projects with communities, artists and organisations, exploring how we gather, inhabit places and relate to living systems. The work grows through shared enquiry, participation and experimentation.
A starting point
Bring a place, a question or a shared interest. We can explore the idea, the partnership and how the work could be supported.
Who I work with
Find a starting point below. Every project takes its own shape.
01Communities + local groups
Neighbourhood groups, community organisations and people connected by a place or shared experience.
Where I can help
Explore a question together and give local knowledge a creative form.
What I can offer
Collaborative research, workshops, spatial experiments and participatory installations.
What it could look like
A project exploring how an overlooked local space could support gathering, beginning with stories and shared activities and developing a temporary intervention together.
An illustrative starting point02Artists + cultural partners
Artists, curators, galleries, festivals and cultural organisations.
Where I can help
Develop work where space, participation and artistic enquiry meet.
What I can offer
Spatial concepts, collaborative making, installation design and creative facilitation.
What it could look like
An artist and a community group developing an installation that visitors can inhabit and contribute to, with the form emerging through research and experimentation.
An illustrative starting point03Environmental + research partners
Environmental groups, researchers and organisations working with landscapes and living systems.
Where I can help
Explore how people relate to changing environments through creative practice.
What I can offer
Place-based enquiry, fieldwork, participatory activities and spatial responses.
What it could look like
A collaborative enquiry into a changing landscape, bringing together local stories, observation and material experiments to ask how people might relate to it differently.
An illustrative starting point04Project + funding partners
Organisations and practitioners developing joint proposals, exchanges or residencies.
Where I can help
Turn a shared interest into a project with a clear purpose and a workable structure.
What I can offer
Concept development, research methods, workshop planning and a spatial design contribution to a joint proposal.
What it could look like
Developing a funded exchange around a shared place-based question, with agreed roles, a research programme and time for communities to shape the direction.
An illustrative starting pointThinking through making
A small study can make a spatial question tangible. StepSeat moved from observations and balsa models to a seat used on Cork’s river steps.
What I bring
Different approaches, brought together around the purpose of your project.
Participation + co-creation
Create ways for people to contribute their experiences and develop the direction of a project together.
Place-based research
Use observation, conversations, walks and material experiments to explore the relationships between people, places and living systems.
Project development
Shape a shared concept, agree roles and methods, and develop a realistic plan and budget for a funding proposal or supported collaboration.
How we get started
Find common ground
Talk about the place, question or interest that brings us together.
Shape the enquiry
Agree who should be involved and how they can influence the work.
Plan + resource
Develop roles, a budget including practitioner fees, and a suitable funding or commissioning route.
Explore together
Begin the agreed research and creative process, with room to respond to what emerges.
Related work
Projects exploring gathering, access, public life and the relationship between people and place.
Spúnóg den Cheo
Landscape + gatheringStepSeat
Public furniture
Skate Lounge
Urban activation
Willow Pavilion
Temporary architectureFor other approaches to material reuse and shared places, explore Scrap Lab’s experiments with found materials and Walden 8’s neighbourhood concept.
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