'This small book is exactly 25,000 words long. It corresponds to the 25,000 metres or strokes I swam during the month when my Mum was dying. After I had swum about 47 km I counted up all the words I had written during this difficult period. Approximately 43,000. I was amazed, as if each stroke had somehow translated into a word, excluding my rather long pushoffs. What was I trying to say? Did it really translate? Or is the swim itself perhaps impenetrable, untranslatable, in a language all of its own, one of water and muscle, energy and pain.'
Purchase 'The Swimming Diaries' HERE
2010: The Swimming Diaries in display cabinet exhibition 'Glass I' Artbook@MoMA PS1 supported by Culture Ireland.
2010: series of writing workshops in P.S.1, New York supported by Culture Ireland.
2010: at Cake, Co. Kildare.
2010: ‘No Soul for Sale’, Turbine Hall, Tate Modern with thisisnotshop Writing Workshop.
2009: at ‘No Soul for Sale’, X initiative, New York.
2009: at thisisnotashop, Dublin.
2008: at The Salon, Studio 6, Temple Bar Galleries.
Swimming Diaries is held in the collection of the Live Art Development Agency, London
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Selected Articles2020: A personal essay on Derek Jarman's garden for IMMA magazine - on flowers, mortality, and Section 28 Derek Jarman's Garden by Susan Thomson
2019: Photo essay on Derek Jarman and review of PROTEST! exhibition, IMMA, Dublin for Circa magazine
Part 1 Reconciliation Violence and Reconciliation: The Image You Missed
Part 2 Restoration Chick Strand's Soft Fiction: Film restoration and #MeToo
Parrt 3 Revolution ICA In Formation and Rojava Women's Village, Syria
2018: Art, Monsters and Cyborgs: IADT Graduate show Circa Art Magazine, 5 July 2018
2018: Body Language by David Bolger and Christopher Ash at RHA, Dublin Circa Art Magazine January 26, 2018.
2017: 'The Catcher in the Rye' by Luke McLaughlin, DIT Graduate show Circa Art Magazine July 18, 2017.
2016: Design and Violence, Science Museum, Dublin, a co-production with MoMA, New York, review Circa Art Magazine, November 30, 2016.
2014: Ghost Empire article / images in Fire Station Artists’ Studios ‘Art & Activism’ publication relating to Troubling Ireland Think Tank.
2011: The Author of Unusual Papers, audio and installation, group show: response to the text at The Lab, Dublin.
2009: James Coleman retrospective RHA / IMMA / Project. Circa 128 magazine, pages 95-99.
2008: Sophie Calle ‘Prenez soin de vous’, Venice Biennale, Circa 122 magazine, pages 62-66. Also available from JSTOR online journal.
2008: Glasgow International Festival review, Circa 124 magazine, pages 82-86.
2008: Circa 125 magazine review of NCAD graduate show: Richard Gibson, pages 61-63.
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