PhD Arts Practice -UL 2015 onwards

In September 2015 I started a Structured PhD arts practice in the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University Limerick, initially with Dr.Mary Hunan as supervisor and when she retired, Dr. Niamh NicGhabhann kindly took over.

Topic: how my body based arts practice informs my curatorial practice

The Space In between- Performance in the Courthouse Gallery July 2016

Exhibiting with Sarah Fuller in the Courthouse Gallery, Ennistymon, July 2016 , inspired by previous movement research we had investigated together and developed separately in our own unique ways looking at the space in between...

I presented a series of performances each day for a week in the gallery space, incorporating monologue and embodied movement based on dna inheritence from my grandmother. Ende Bowe's photo of Gran was included in the live performance.

Experimental Heritage, Oland, Sweden, November 2016

Invited by Helle Kvamme to give a workshop using movement practice as method to inquire through the body for new knowledge in experimental archeology in the project
Kamprad Experimental heritage.

I explored the theme of Experimental heritage though non verbal communication with a wonderful group of open minded people.

Helsinki, Huuto Gallery, Sept 2016

4 O'Clock TEAS, an Outrider platform for dialogue and meeting artists curators at Huuto Gallery, Helsinki, funded by Culture Ireland, Hosted by Maria Kerin and Fiona O'Dwyer

The starting point for conversations is our varied relation to time and displacement, echoed in Fiona O'Dwyers work on exhibit in Huuto gallery, 10-26th Sept.

Fiona O’Dwyer’s exhibition I Went Up the Mountain With Someone Else's Story and Came Down With My Own centers around the idea and reality of Human Movement: taking as a starting point, her connection to her family’s migration and displacement in 1950’s Ireland. Her ideas are articulated through the works’ performative nature, its relation to place and time, and its materiality. 

"What comes through as a result are echoes of a distant space in time, transposed from real points on a landscape in which a narrative or sound once existed and was played out.

What has become evident however is that I forgot the future and so it goes on.” O’Dwyer, 2016

Kindly supported by Culture Ireland, Clare Arts Office and The Arts Council of Ireland