Photo: Evanna Devine

Influenced by the radical traditions of Black feminist thought, their work is rooted in diasporic memory, the politics of care, and practices of refusal. Clodagh’s curatorial and artistic projects challenge extractive logics, turning instead toward slowness, opacity, and interdependence as strategies of resistance.

Their work has been exhibited at MART gallery, FILET London and Contemporary Arts Centre Los Angeles.

Clodagh’s curatorial work has been recently featured at the 21st Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival, aemi, Dublin International Film Festival, PS² Belfast and Outburst Queer Arts Festival.  Their devotion to memory work and archives has lead them to develop projects with Studio Museum in Harlem, The International Centre for the Image and Kunstverein Aughrim. Clodagh frequently writes for VAI Visual Artists’ News sheet and has been published in Bloomers Journal.

During their time as a resident artist as a part of Common Ground’s award, Collective Futures, Clodagh has explored Dublin 8’s 18th century ties to the transatlantic slave trade through sugar refineries and Georgian architecture. Exploring spatial relations through sound and study, Clodagh sets out to interrogate early racial capitalism as a frame for our lived experience of Dublin.