Collaboration Examples:
Collaboration with Sophie Hutchinson
In 2024, I was selected to take part in the Studio Light Moves: Open Futures residency to collaborate with dance artist Sophie Hutchinson. During this residency, which took place over two weeks, one in June and one in November, we worked with a high-speed camera, exploring movement in an expanded temporal space.
The work was shown during an installation entitled 'Mediated Motion' at the Guesthouse Project in Cork and as part of a sharing and discussion at Dance Limerick. Following the sharing, Light Moves offered us continued support and extra funding to aid us in the of our collaboration moving into 2025. This has lead to the development of further work during residencies at The Guesthouse Project, Inis Oírr, Joya: Arte & Ecologia, Sirius Art Center and several filming excursions on Sherkin Island, Skellig Michael, the Slieve Mish mountain range and in Connemara.
Most recently we premiered the short film Nothing Exists Until It Moves at Interface in Connemara during MOVING EARTH — a day of dance, performance, and community rooted in ecological awareness and connection through movement curated by dance-artist Linda Schirmer. This film has now been added to the Light Moves festival 2025 lineup and Bucharest International Dance Film Festival.
Waterhands | Duration 25:21 | Two Channel | 4K Resolution (each screen) | 25fps
Waterhands is a two channel film, showing a 1000fps motion study portrait and a second screen showing the individual frames.
Lobster Legs| Duration 26:05 | Three Channel | HD Resolution (each screen) | 25fps, 24fps, 23fps
Also shot at 1000fps, lobster legs consists of showing the same film played back at three different frame rates. On loop the films gradually drift further and further out of sync.
Nothing Exists Until It Moves | Duration 8:59 | Single Channel | 4K Resolution | 25fps
A movement study in transformation, presence, and the unseen forces that shape what we perceive, Nothing Exists Until It Moves is a short film that uses a computer-vision technique called frame differencing to extract and emphasise all movement within a moving image.
A body encounters an unseen environment, revealed only through its disturbance. The earth shifts, stones scatter, and bushes tremble toward consciousness, unveiling the subtle violence of existence. The screen becomes a space where movement alone defines existence, blurring the line between body and environment.
Filmed on location at Joya: arte + ecología / AiR - Cortijada Los Gázquez, Vélez Blanco, Spain
Screenings:
Eco Dance Day - June 2025 - Interface, Co. Galway, Ireland
Bucharest International Dance Film Festival - September 2025 - Bucharest, Romania
Light Moves Festival - November 2025 - Limerick City, Ireland
Collaboration with Siobhán Ní Dhuíninn
In 2022 I met Siobhán Ní Dhuínnin while working on visual artist Aoife Desmond's film River Branching, as a location sound recording. Siobhán then hired me as an a/v technician for her beautiful live performance work Bád Siobhán. Following this she mentored me on working in contemporary dance thanks to an Arts Council funded Agility Award. This coincided with the development of her solo piece 'Can I have Your Best Move?' For which I developed a cue-based video and sound/music score to accompany her performance. The piece was performed at 'What Next? festival 2023' and 'Take Off festival 2024' in both the Firkin Crane and Dance Limerick.
We are continuing to work together and have been fleshing out the beginning of a new project while on Residency at Gorse Hill, Wicklow during June 2025.
Below are some examples and experiments from our work together.
Collaboration with The Parsley Collective
In early 2024 I attended a movement workshop by choreographer Mary Nunan exploring her concept Z(ero)ing. This was quite outside my depth but I was nevertheless very intrigued by it. I kept in correspondence with Mary afterwards and in early 2025 she asked me to be part of The Parsley Collective's proposal to be Dance Limerick's Dancers in residence from late 2025 and into 2026. This application was successful and I joined them for part of their residency in Limerick City Gallery on Art in April where I filmed them during part of it and following that have begun experimenting the material while in correspondence with the group. This collaboration will continue into 2026.
The Parlsley Collective comprise of Mary Nunan, Isabella Oberlander, Angie Smallis, Rachael Shiel and Selma Ataya.
Earwicker: Collaboration with Mick O' Shea
Mick and I have been playing music together since the Covid era, collaborating in various forms and performing at events across the country. In 2023, we officially formed Earwicker—a project built on the interplay between sound and image. The concept is simple but generative: I create films in response to our music, and we, in turn, use those visuals as a kind of evolving score. So far, we’ve developed four distinct versions, each shaped by entirely different films. We typically invite a rotating third member to join the collaboration for each version. On my end the technology is always evolving to react better to the sound and in ways that i can live control the sound and image with more control.
Upcoming Collaborations
Opening performance for Light Moves Festival 2025
Music, Moving-Image and Dance
With Péist (Daithí Mac Cruitín, Caimin Walsh, Eilis Mahon, Mícheál Keating, Aoibhinn O’Dea, Cian McGuirk )
Video Art and Music Video for Zkerries (Andy Connelly, Killian Barton, Dan Walsh)
In collaboration with artist Gina Raune
Five screen film for Dialectic Erosions by Aoife King
and performed by Crash Ensmeble
Performed Live at the National Concert Hall 04/04/25