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What is your specialty, what makes your work unique? Or place your artist's statement.

Cara cares about one-to-one conversations and connections; small intimate moments in intimate settings, the everyday ways in which our everyday relationships inform how we interact with the world. The way a phone call with a friend or a late-night chat on the couch are not just ways for us to connect with loved ones, but vital points in how we interpret everything around us.

She believes that we carry these moments within us, and that the voices of many others are woven through our own. When we speak, we do not speak as individual entities but as messy multiple beings. We make meaning together with those who surround us on a daily basis.

What are your ambitions? What do you want to be in five years?

What is the most important thing you have learned during your studies?

List of publications / exhibitions / prices / concerts / shows etc.

Awards and Residencies
2019 Arts Letters & Numbers, NY
2017 Cow House Studios, Open Residency, Wexford
2017 Haihatus, Joutsa, Finland
2016/2017 RHA School Peer Residency Award, Dublin
2016 NCAD Staff Prize - Print Department Nominee

Solo Exhibitions
Sometimes the River Flows Backwards curated by Róisín Bohan and Basic Space, Backwater Artists Group, Cork, Jan/Feb 2020

Selected Projects and Exhibitions
2020
Responses to a Request, online exchange & performance, Safe Crash Het Resort Summer Takeover curated by Nadine Borst & Megan Bruinen, Sauna t’Pakhuisje, Gronigen
Water Bodies, with Jennifer Moore & Emma Brennan, online at waterbodies.hotglue.me and exhibition at Catalyst Arts, Belfast
2019
Our Field Guide with Jennifer Moore, open source map and field trip to Dalkey Island
PLATFROM, curated by Sharon Murphy, Draíocht Blanchardstown
The Cultural Equinox, curated by Gav Fahy and Anthony O’Connor, The Dart, Dublin
Third Thursday, curated by Jennifer Park, Arts Letters and Numbers, New York
Some Concrete Possibilities, curated by Siobhán Mooney, The Library Project, Dublin
2018
Incomplete Nature, Interface, Inagh Valley, Galway.
The Museum of Mythological Water Beasts, Ormston House, Limerick
SIDE STREET, curated by Krista Brand, The Locker Gallery at Washington State
University, Washington.
Cairde Visual at Cairde Arts Festival, The Model, Sligo.
Gathering,[curator] outdoor exhibition and guided walk, Dollymount Strand, Dublin.
Our Nature, Organised by Art Number 23, The Biscuit Factory, London.
Hermione Exhibition, Curated by Aisling Prior, Alexandra College, Milltown, Dublin.
iom-, The Ground Floor Gallery, The Complex, Dublin.

Press/Talks
2019, Chance and the Space Between Things, Review of Some Concrete Possibilities, Aidan Dunne, The Irish Times
2019, Artist Talk, Black Church Print Studio A&E Event alongside Some Concrete Possibilities,
The Library Project
2017, Featured Artist, ryallcontemporary.com

Teaching Experience
Curriculum Development for Art and Technology, Designer Minds, April 2021-present
Pools of Thought, drawing and sound making workshop with students of St Malachy’s College,
Belfast, Aug 2020
Drawing Around Spoken Language, online drawing workshop with Royal Hibernian Academy for National Drawing Day, May 2020
Education Guide, Airfield Estate, June – Sept 2019
Facilitator, Drawing and Conjuring, Intergenerational Workshop for Bealtaine Festival and National Drawing Day, Temple Bar Gallery and Studios, May 2019
STEAM Educator with Designer Minds, Sept 2018 – May 2019
One to One Portfolio Mentoring, Various Students, 2016/2017

Professional Experience
Grants and Funding Officer, Ormond Art Studios, 2019
PR and Events Officer, Ormond Art Studios, 2018/2019
Curator, Gathering, Dollymount Strand, 2018
Producer, Heed to the Mound by Emma Brennan, Dublin Fringe Festival, 2018
Performer, Lisa Freemans’ Self Defeating Zone at Performance Platform,
Draiocht Blanchardstown, 2018
Performer, Emily Mast’s Experiments in Falling, Wilder Beings Command, IMMA, 2017
Assistant Stage Manager, Briseis after the Black, Dublin Tiger Fringe, 2016
Artist Assistant to Kelly Tivnan for The Age of Transition, Dublin Tiger Fringe, 2016