Veronica Dyas has worked with the young people of Core Youth Service on the project X MARKS THE CORE from October 2023 to April 2024.

Veronica researched with young people the development, formation and communication of their experience of living in Inchicore, where Core Youth Service and Common Ground are located. At the heart of X MARKS THE CORE, is the participation of young people, and how they believe they are seen and heard, and the creation of their cultural voice in public as a response to that experience.

Veronica was successful in applying for Arts Council YPCE funding to continue her work with the young people at CORE Youth Service with her project FIELDwork through 2024. Common Ground supported Veronica extending her residency at The Lodge.

Veronica along with filmmaker Frank Sweeney have been commissioned to respond to the archive of Common Ground stretching over 25 years. With this commission – MARKING 25 – they will work on site at The Lodge responding to the paper files and extensive audiovisual documentation of the work of Common Ground, creating a written/film/art work.

Facilitation, Action & LOVE are crucial to her practice. Veronica works with communities of identity, purpose, and or place. She makes work that investigates contemporary living, acknowledging the visceral reality of past trauma while always focused towards healing. Her play My Son My Son (2018) interrogating class, gender(s) and education was staged at Project, Mermaid and Axis Ballymun. She holds a B.A. (Hons.) in Drama & Theatre Studies with Sociology from Trinity College Dublin and an M.A. in Text & Performance Studies from RADA & King’s College London.