I currently work as senior graphic design lecturer for Dublin Design Institute. I work with degree and diploma students on their design project briefs and also run workshops in street art, zines/bookbinding, and stop motion animation. My job is to get students to think differently about how they approach design and to guide them in idea generation, digital skills and concept development. I teach both online and in person at our Leeson Street campus in Dublin City Centre. 

 

I also have experience teaching in many different environments with a huge variety of great people. Here is a gallery of various workshops and classes that I have run with different organisations such as Facebook, the Irish Film Institute, RTE, NCAD, Limerick International Publishers Salon and the National Gallery of Ireland. I have worked with adult groups, children and people with additional learning needs.

 

As part of the professional masters in art and design education at NCAD, I completed a special needs placement, where I ran a two-week art programme and mentored an education degree student, who assisted in the workshops. My placement was with children aged 5-10 who were blind or visual impaired, with physical disabilities, severe learning disabilities and various complicated medical conditions. The placement was challenging in many ways but was a hugely rewarding experience. The children, teachers and SNA's I met during my time on placement were truly inspirational. The projects I introduced were art therapy based, which I planned to each student’s individual educational plan. Myself and my mentee Kelley Farrell were based within two classes for the whole school day. We assisted the teachers and SNA's in their daily routines and introduced daily art therapy activities tailored to each student’s needs, likes and dislikes. The art activities aimed to stimulate students senses and involved use of tactile materials, scents, sounds, massage, movement and florescent light for student's with CVI. Some images from these sessions can be seen in the gallery also.

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In November 2016, the Irish Film Institute asked me to facilitate a mural project with a group of 12 young people aged 15-18 from schools around the city. The project would be part of The View Festival and the French Film Festival. The mural's theme was the young people’s visions of the future based on the French documentary "Demain/Tomorrow". I explored many of the themes from the film with the students, it was great to see them identify many of today’s problems and discuss positive ways we can make the future be a better place. Their mural explores the benefits of green energy, local economy, urban farming, fossil fuel pollution and the struggle for earth's future between nature and man.

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I have worked with companies such as Facebook running craft workshops with staff groups. I conducted an embroidery workshop for Image Magazine which appeared on an episode of RTE's 'At Your Service'. I have also run zine and book binding workshops with adult groups at Dublin Zine Fair and Limerick International Publishers Salon (LIPS). I was also selected to conduct workshops for Access Day at NCAD. Together with three art educators I worked with groups of secondary school students visiting the college. Our task was to assist students in creating wearable art by up-cycling waste materials sourced from Recreate Ireland.

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I was delighted when the Irish Film Institute asked me to do a zine workshop as part of their Family Fest in summer 2016. I worked with kids aged 7-10 to create zines about their favourite films. Some of the kids decided to write their own movies. We storyboarded their page plan first and then created the zines using drawing and an old typewriter. Then the children bound their zines with colourful string. I love working with this age group because they are not afraid of to be off the wall with creativity! They are full of such crazy ideas and are so confident in their ability to achieve them.

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In 2021 I held a masterclass in embroidered portraiture with the National Gallery of Ireland, the participants were artists from the young portrait prize and the workshop was held via Zoom.