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He will bring you over the seas to exotic and mysterious lands that lie beyond the horizon of our imaginations. His repertoire of folktales, myths, legends and original stories reflect the wide gamut of human experiences and emotions.

In addition to her painting practice, she has over ten years’ experience as an art facilitator, working with children and adults of all ages and abilities, using a wide variety of materials and processes.  

She has been awarded primary school residencies under the auspices of the Living Arts Project in 2014, 2106, 2017 and again in 2018.

She worked as a facilitator within Wexford Arts Centre’s Insight Education programme from 2010-2017.

She has worked as a facilitator within County Wexford Arts Department Arts Ability programme since 2018.

Her practice primarily explores themes of identity and memory, making paintings that exude feelings of nostalgia, history and longing. Exhibitions include Scéilini in Paint, a solo show in the Anita Chan Lai-Ling Gallery, Fringe Club, Hong Kong as part of her residency for the Irish festival Asia 2018, with the support of Culture Ireland. Also Painting is dead- WHO SAYS? group show Kamera 8, Wexford. Her paintings are held in private and corporate collections within Ireland, Hong Kong and the USA.

My academic background is in Social Care; as an adult learner I obtained a BA in Social Care (2014) and an MA in Child, Youth and Family Studies (2016), taking as my thesis subject an investigation into the role of Creative/Therapeutic Writing in Bereavement.   I am particularly interested in collaborative and participatory arts practice in care contexts.

With more than 25 years of experience working with performance in Brazil, in Ireland she was awarded by the Arts Council and the South Dublin County Council with bursaries to research and develop original projects for multilingual young audiences. In 2023 she developed an interactive installation and a silent book for multilingual children and their family’s mixing puppetry and cutting-edge AR technology supported by the YPCE Arts Council Bursary Awards and The Civic through the Ready, Steady, Show! Digital commission. Also, collaborated with Mother Tongues and Early Childhood Ireland in their pilot project OWL. This is a art based project who explore multilingualism in the pre-schools settings and was supported by the TOY SHOW Appel.

He has also being facilitating the KCAT Studio group over this time and has spent the last 15 years coordinating and developing the KCAT studio. Previous to this he studied Art for seven years and qualified with an MA in Fine Arts. He has developed a strong working relationship with organisations in the Arts and Disabilities sector, both Nationally and Internationally.

my passion is to explore wellness as well as creativity through working with the ecosystems in/around us. As well as being a solo artist, I am a community artist who works with people of all ages in schools, workplaces and communities promoting the idea of unity in diversity, enforcing the human connection and the connection with nature.

I am interested in the question of value; how we value ourselves, each other, and the material world that we are in. Through creating together, I help to develop connections between participants and to evolve micro- communities. I use whatever mode of creation suits the project as it develops, talking, story-making, drawing, stitching, and playing.

I am interested in giving participants tools to be confident in producing and speaking about art. I do this through visual thinking strategies encouraging the development of visual art literacy in participants. My work is socially engaged and concerned with our connectedness to both the natural and the socially constructed world. I am concerned with how we can live responsibly and responsively in our localities and globally, being mindful and creative in our daily lives.

Her art practice involves exploring various ways to work with, and reimagine, waste materials to create artwork such as texture exploration and print making for example. She has facilitated many creative workshops over the years, for both children and adults, in many community groups, at events and in schools and universities and has worked with all age groups and varying abilities.

She was principal conductor of The Gateway Orchestra from 2013-2017 and The County Wexford Youth Orchestra from 2007-2020. She has been a member of staff at The County Wexford School of Music since 2005,  where she teaches violin and viola.  Emily is a member of several string quartets around Ireland and performs regularly on the Late Late Show and other Irish TV programmes. She has performed with the following artists Michael Buble, Shane MacGowan, Sharon Shannon, Tommy Fleming, Westlife, Jose Carreras, The Cheiftans, Charlotte Church, Katherine Jenkins, Ellie Goulding etc.

Emily began working with dementia patients in 2006 and  became involved with a Large Community Music Project funded by the HSE and Wexford County Council.  From 2006-2009, she carried out music therapy workshops at the New Houghton Hospital, The Community Hospital and The Day Care Centre in New Ross, Co Wexford.  She presented specially designed workshops and performances of the highest quality to older people within their own living environment.  This led to a new programme called Music for and with the Elderly organised by Wexford County Council.  She facilitated one day workshops for nurses, volunteers, carers, and musicians to give them the tools and resources to carry out their own music sessions within their healthcare settings. 

Emily was appointed as Music Exploration Officer with Wexford Mental Health Association and The Mental Health Services in County Wexford in 2016.  The Music Programme is funded as part of the Arts Ability Programme, a partnership between the HSE and Wexford County Council Arts Department. The Arts Ability Programme is an inclusive, participatory arts programme that celebrates the artistic and creative imagination of people who experience mental health problems and/or intellectual, physical or sensory disabilities.

The programme is administered through Wexford Mental Health Association and run in close partnership between the HSE Mental Health Services. The programme explores the role of music in mental health recovery for individuals attending community mental health services and those in residential settings in County Wexford.  Access to the programme is by referral from the HSE Mental Health Services.

The programme embraces partnerships with community musicians and the County Council Arts office (Creative Communities Programme), e.g. working with singer songwriter Jimi Cullen, Contemporary dancer Dee Grant and  traditional singer Aileen Lambert to name but a few

 Emily is currently running music programmes in residential units and community groups within the mental health services on a weekly basis north and south of the County.

Emily designs programmes for the residential units and community groups that are engaging, increase quality of life, and recognise participants’ individuality.  During the music sessions she includes both active forms of musical engagement such as song writing, singing, and playing musical instruments, as well as receptive forms of musical engagement such as listening to live or pre-recorded music. 

He is a Wexford County Council Creative Communities Panellist (2017-Present) and a fully accredited Youth and Community Worker with over 20 years’ experience.