About
My brand is rooted in sustainability and the power of slow, intentional making — a quiet but deliberate stand against fast fashion, disposability, and the undervaluing of labour traditionally done by women. Each piece is handmade in small batches, using gold-plated or silver-plated materials, with care woven into every detail.
The crochet earrings are stitched one loop at a time using a 0.5–0.6mm hook and fine cotton thread — a delicate yet resilient process that can take up to two hours per pair. Each one is varnished for strength and longevity, making them as unique and enduring as the person who wears them. My necklaces begin with custom-designed, 3D-printed forms, which serve as a base for intricate crochet — merging old and new, softness and structure, intuition and design.
This work draws from a lineage of textile practices often dismissed as domestic or decorative — what Rozsika Parker called “the feminine crafts,” historically undervalued precisely because they were associated with women’s unpaid, unseen labour. By reclaiming crochet as a method of self-expression, strength, and contemporary design, it becomes more than craft — it becomes a form of resistance.
Each stitch is an act of reclaiming space for care, for beauty, for quiet power. In The Subversive Stitch, Parker writes that embroidery and needlework were once used to constrain women — to keep their hands busy and their voices quiet. Today, those same practices are being redefined as radical acts of self-determination. Through crochet, this work honours those histories while refusing to be bound by them.
What was once relegated to the domestic is made public, visible, and proudly worn. It honours the labour, creativity, and time historically coded as feminine — and insists on their worth. In a world of speed and mass production, slow, intentional making becomes a counter-cultural statement. Beauty can be strong. Softness can be radical. And the act of creating — stitch by stitch, by hand — is a way of saying: we were always here, and our work has always mattered.
I am a Portlaoise based visual and textile artist with a degree in fine art and critical cultures from NCAD.
Solo exhibition:
Aesthetics of a split subject - Engage Art Studios, Galway - 2019
Residency:
What Could / Should Curating Do? - International curatorial residency led by Biljana Čirić, Belgrade, Serbia (awarded funding by i-Portunus) - 2019
Selected Group Exhibitions and Projects:
Cabinet Award 2018, Black Church Printmaking Studio, Dublin, Ireland - 2018
‘Clo after Brian O’Doherty’, IMMA, Dublin, Ireland: Response to Brian O’Doherty’s show ‘Language and Space’ in Irish Museum of Modern Art - 2018
Heed, to the Mound, Fringe Festival - The Complex, Dublin - Performance led by Emma Brennan - 2018
Graduate Exhibition, NCAD, 2019
‘ECHOES - Clo after Kate Mac Donagh and Maria Simonds Gooding’, Graphic Studio Gallery, Dublin - 2019
The Office for Common Sound - led by Sven Anderson - a nomadic space devoted to working with the public to explore the everyday soundscape. NCAD Gallery, Dublin - 2019
Cairde Visual, Sligo, Ireland, 2021
Human Signature group exhibition with Paul Cabena, Anna Leask, Sarah Sexton curated by Barry Mc Hugh for Cairde Festival, Hyde Bridge Gallery, Sligo - 2020
Silence - group exhibition at Graphic Studio Dublin, curated with Anne Hodge of NGI and Angela Griffith of Trinity College Dublin, 2021
Expanded - group exhibition at Graphic studio Dublin curated with Dr Andrew Folan, 2021
The Art of Home - group exhibition, collaboration between Graphic Studio Dublin and Simon Community - 2021
Returning Home - collaboration between Graphic Studio Dublin and Simon Community, Dublin - 2022
Returning Home - collaboration between Graphic Studio Dublin and Simon Community, CHQ Dublin - 2022
The Art of Belonging - collaboration between Graphic Studio Dublin and Simon Community, RHA Dublin - 2023
Annual Summer & Winter Exhibitions at Graphic Studio Gallery, Dublin (2019 - 2023)