Photograph by Dane Brown.
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Born 1991, Dublin, Ireland
Lives and works in London, United Kingdom
Education
2022 MRes Photography, Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art Design and Technology, Dublin, Ireland
2016 BA Hons Fine Art Print and Time-based Media, University of the Arts London, Wimbledon College of Arts, London UK
2013 FETAC Level 6 Advanced Diploma Photography, Colaiste Dhulaigh, Dublin, Ireland
2011 FETAC Level 5 Diploma Communications and Media Production, Colaiste Dhulaigh, Dublin, Ireland
Solo exhibitions
2014 Photographs From Berlin, Wimbledon College of Arts Library, London, UK
Group exhibitions
2023 Heartland / Hearthland, Tsundoku Art Book Fair 2023, PhotoIreland Festival: R/Evolutions, The Printworks, Dublin Castle, Dublin, Ireland
2022 Heartland / Hearthland, Dublin Art Book Fair 2022: A Caring Matter, Temple Bar Gallery and Studios, Dublin, Ireland
Laura, from Heartland / Hearthland, Images Are All We Have, PhotoIreland Festival; The Printworks, Dublin Castle, Dublin Ireland
2020 Ireland is my Hearth-land, Photo Fringe, online
2016 Immigration / Emigration, Show Two, Wimbledon College of Arts, London, UK
Accidental Journeys, Liminal States, Gallery on the Corner, Battersea, London, UK
Accidental Journeys, Spectacle, Wimbledon College of Arts, London, UK
2013 A Short Way from Here and Common History, Colaiste Dhulaigh graduate show, Gallery of Photography, Dublin, Ireland
A Short Way from Here, Four Degrees of Separation, The Twisted Pepper, Dublin, Ireland
2012 Various portrait photographs, Homeless Gallery, PhotoIreland Festival; Migrations, D-Light Studios, Dublin, Ireland
Screenings
2022 Mamó, from Heartland / Hearthland, PhotoIreland Festival, On The History and Practice of Photography in Ireland, Dublin Ireland
The Claddagh, from Heartland / Hearthland, PhotoIreland Festival, On The History and Practice of Photography in Ireland, Dublin Ireland
2020 The Claddagh, from Heartland / Hearthland, Elbow Room, Bussey Building, London UK
2014 Homage to Lewis Sayre, performance documentation, Elbow Room, Wimbledon College of Arts, London UK
Presentations/reviews
2023 Artist book signing, Heartland / Hearthland, Tsundoku Art Book Fair 2023, PhotoIreland Festival: R/Evolutions, The Printworks, Dublin Castle, Dublin, Ireland
2022 Artist talk, Joya: arte + ecología, Los Gázquez, Almería, Spain
Open studio, Joya: arte + ecología, Los Gázquez, Almería, Spain
2021 Presenter, Photo London x BJP portfolio review, Somerset House, London UK
2019 Presenter, Folio Friday, Photographer’s Gallery, London UK
2018 Presenter, Photo Scratch #15, Hotel Elephant, London, UK
2017 Presenter, Photo Scratch #11, Hotel Elephant, London, UK
Presenter, Spring Showcase, Hotel Elephant, London, UK
Presenter, Q Art Open Crit, The Mall Galleries, London, UK
Presenter, Show and Tell @ TATE EXCHANGE, Tate Modern, London, UK
2016 Presenter, Folio Friday, Photographer’s Gallery, London, UK
Awards/grants
2025 United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, CSW69, digital participant
2024 Emerging Scholar Award, Nineteenth International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences: The World on the Move: Understanding Migration in a New Global Age, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland
2023 Fingal Artist’s Support Scheme 2023 for Development of Work, Fingal County Council, Ireland
2022 Part of the London Creative Network (LCN) program at Four Corners, London UK
Belfast Photo Festival open submission, shortlisted, Belfast UK
2021 Emerging Scholar Award, Sixteenth International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences The Opportunities of Crisis: Resilience and Change in World History, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford UK
2020 Student Assistance Fund, Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art Design and Technology, Dublin, Ireland
2019 Research and Innovation Seed Fund for Emerging Researchers, Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art Design and Technology, Dublin Ireland
2016 The Old Girl’s Club Mentorship III – Shortlisted, London UK
Features/interviews
2024 Feature: Heartland / Hearthland, ANTH 319: Special Topics in Anthropology, lecture on Culture and Irish Women, taught by Prof E Moore Quinn at College of Charleston, Charleston SC USA
2023 Feature: Photo Trouvée Magazine issue 11, print
2022 Feature: Graduate Photography MA Supplement, Source Photographic Review issue 109: Status, Autumn 2022 (Selected by Pelumi Odubanjo, Independent curator and Photography writer), print
Feature: Source Graduate Photography Online, Source Photographic Review, online
Instagram residency, Vessel Editions Instagram, online
2020 Instagram feature, Scenario: Photography Podcast Instagram, online
2019 Instagram residency, Photo Scratch Instagram, online
2018 Instagram residency, Photograd Instagram, online
2017 Instagram residency, The Old Girl’s Club Instagram, online
2016 Interview: “Aisling Keavey, photographic artist”, Creative Choices, online
Interview: “Meet a Third Year – Aisling Keavey, Print & Time-Based Media student”, interviewed by Sophie Kassay, Wimbledon College of Arts blog, online
Feature: The Print Space Trajectory, online
Instagram takeover of Wimbledon College of Arts Instagram for Print and Time-based Media, online
2014 Feature: Girls Get Busy Zine #22, online
2013 Feature: Man With A Movie Camera, online
Feature: Lenscratch self-portraits exhibition, online
2012 feature, The Daily Shot, theshot.ie, online
Conference presentations/invited talks/competition judging
2026 panel presentation, “An analysis of liminality in the context of Irish migrant women”, Northeast Conference of British Studies, Hartford Connecticut, USA (online)
2025 panel presentation, “Home is a Held Image: Irish Women’s Migratory Memory and the Deviant Archive”, Deviant Women: Women and the Visual Arts Research Symposium, University of Bristol, Bristol UK
invited competition judge, “Home” theme June 2025. City of London and Cripplegate photographic Society, London UK
guest lecturer, “Home, Photography, Memory and Identity”. talk for City of London and Cripplegate Photographic Society, London UK
2024 panelist, “Exploring disability livelihood and employment”, alumni panel for UAL Disability History Month, moderated by Caroline Huntley, Head of UAL’s Disability Service, University of the Arts London, High Holborn, London UK
panel presentation, “An analysis of liminality in the context of Irish migrant women”, Nineteenth International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences, The World on the Move: Understanding Migration in a New Global Age, Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland
2023 guest lecturer, “Frederick Douglass in Ireland”, Douglass Week, Rochester NY, online
2021 panel presentation, Thesis in Three, Panel 1 – Women, identity and Irish Society; Women’s History Association of Ireland ECR/PGR Day 2021, online
panel presentation, Using Digital Ethnography Methods to Explore Hybrid Identities among Irish Immigrant Women in London, Sixteenth International Conference on Interdisciplinary Social Sciences The Opportunities of Crisis: Resilience and Change in World History, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford UK
panel presentation, Using Digital Ethnography Methods to Explore Hybrid Identities among Irish Immigrant Women in London, Migrant Belongings: Digital Practices and the Everyday, Utrecht University, online
2020 panel presentation, Postcolonial Ireland; Representations of the Irish Diaspora in Britain from 1980 to the Present Day, British Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies Conference, DeSoto Hotel, Savannah, GA. USA
2019 poster presentation, Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art Design and Technology Teaching and Research Showcase, How have the Irish diaspora been represented from 1980 to the present day? Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Dublin Ireland
panel presentation, Society and Progress; How have the Irish diaspora been represented in England from 1980 to the present day? Limerick Postgraduate Research Conference: “Research and Society: Innovation, Information and Impact”. The University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland
Residencies
2025/26 Thinker-in-Residence, Extant, London UK
2023/24 Growing Intercultural Roots in Communities, Actions for Growth: developing your practice within communities; mentorship, and workshops, online
2022 Joya: arte + ecología, Artist in Residence, Los Gázquez, Almeria, Spain
2013 Creative Retreat, Valletta, Malta
Texts/journal articles
2025 “Keavey on LoboGuerro”, book review of Luis Lobo-Guerrero, Mapping, Connectivity, and the Making of European Empires, commissioned by Tamala Malerk for H-Net Albion, online
“Performing Ethnography and Diaspora: Irish Women Migrants and the Lived Archive”, Extant website, online
review of The Politics of Gender and Sexuality in Modern Ireland, Jennifer Redmond and Mary MacAuliffe (eds), commissioned by Women’s History Network of Ireland, online
2023 “An analysis of liminality in the context of Irish migrant women”, Women’s History Network, online
2018 Accidental Journeys, The Journal of Psychology, Gender and Trauma Vol 1 pp. CR5 – CR11, online
2016 ‘“The subject of an exhibition tends more and more to be not so much the exhibition of works of art, as the exhibition of the exhibition as a work of art” – Daniel Buren The Artist as a Curator and how the gallery functions as an artistic medium and as gendered space’, Undergraduate Honours thesis
“The Photography of Trauma”, The Precursor Project, online
2015 “How do Narrative Forms and Notions of the Archive Relate to Art Practice Today?”
Teaching
2024 Visiting lecturer, artist talk “Heartland / Hearthland: theory, process, methods” for ANTH 319: Special Topics in Anthropology, lecture on culture and Irish women, taught by Prof E Moore Quinn at College of Charleston, Charleston SC USA (online)
Contributed additional bibliographic references for ANTH 319: Special Topics in Anthropology, taught by Prof E Moore Quinn at College of Charleston, Charleston SC USA
Visiting lecturer, “Frederick Douglass in Ireland”, Council on International Educational Exchange (CIEE) Study Abroad 2024, Zoom lecture
2023 Tour lead, Designed for Life: Student Exhibition Tours, London College of Fashion at East Bank, London UK
Workshop facilitator, migrant photography and photographic object handling, Safehouse 1, Peckham, London UK
Reading group facilitator, The Location of Culture by Homi K Bhabha, Safehouse 1, Peckham, London UK
2022 Graduate Student Assistant, School of Performance, Wimbledon College of Arts, London UK
2017 Reading group facilitator, We Should All Be Feminists, The Depot, Hackney, London UK
2016 Workshop facilitator, Narrative Photo-book workshop, Object Book, Merton Abbey Mills, London UK
2015 Screen-printing assistant, CCW Progression Centre, Camberwell College of Arts, London UK
2014 Linocut printmaking assistant, CCW Progression Centre, Camberwell College of Arts, London UK
Curation
2017 Co-curator, The Reality Principle, The Depot, Hackney, London UK
2016 Co-curator, LIMINAL STATES, The Gallery on the Corner Battersea, London UK
2013 Curator, Four Degrees of Separation, The Twisted Pepper, Dublin, Ireland
Publications
2022 Heartland / Hearthland, self-published artist book
2016 Immigration / Emigration, handmade artist book, unique
Accidental Journeys, handmade artist book, edition of 2
2013 A Short Way From Here, self-published photo book, edition of 15
Common History, self-published photo book, edition of 15
Commissions
2024 By Sasha G handcrafted crochet, “My roses are pink” Raffia Collection look-book
2021 Nadeem Din-Gabisi, POOL at Camden Arts Centre, 12th December 2021
2020 Broocks Agency headshots for actor Marius Boehm
2016 “At Exmouth Market”, plumguide.com
Agape staff corporate portraits for the Irish branch website
Collections
PhotoIreland Collection, Dublin, Ireland
JOYA, Art + Ecologica, Cortadjo Los Gazequez, Velez Blanco, Almeria, Spain
Private collections in Ireland, the UK, and the USA
Memberships
Irish in Britain
Women’s History Association of Ireland
British Art Network
Interdisciplinary Social Sciences Research Network
Association For Art History
Call for Curators
A-N Artist information network
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