Power’s practice, premised on the need for radical social change, brings the cultural agenda to the heart of the body politic. She aims to promote dialogue between public agencies and citizens, to engage with the complexities of spatial planning and development, and to foreground the role of the citizen in the planning process. She has led various collaborative projects with civic groups including Urban Tree Project, Tree Council of Ireland, EVA International, and The Hunt Museum. She is represented by the Phatory Gallery, New York and has held residencies at the McDowell Colony, New Hampshire, USA and the Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Monaghan.



When we think of space, we envision a place of association. Physical environments have histories and humans are a part of them. Space is always associated with the social relationships that are generated within the logic of place; space revolves around people occupying, owning, seizing, developing, and re-claiming place.

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Projects 2011-2018

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2018: Portrait of the River in collaboration with #swimablelimerick.

2017: Culture Night. Open space and community engagement with Curraghgower Boat Club.

2017:City Engage. participating project with LCCC

2016: NICE SCREAMS in collaboration with SOFTDAY, EVA International

2015: THIRD BRIDGE. Collboration with Andrew Kearney @ Ormston House.

The project explores the physicality and movement of space from one place to another, (represented through the lens of the photographic archive). 
2014: QUEST.  Limerick City of Culture
2013: Seduction of Place: Labour & Lockout 1913 – LCGA
2012: Urban Tree Project EVA International
2012: Parking Day. Intervention in public space.
2011: Brokenland: A collaborative process with the Residents of Castletroy View Billboard installation.

 

2011Ideas Choir​ : Space, place and site can be developed and challenged by communities through a collective voice.The project examines how space can be re-imagined and challenged through the use of improvised lyrics/music and sound. The Ideas Choir Project, supported by Create Ireland & the Artist in the Community scheme has been realised in the current NICE SCREAM-CITIZENS ANTHEM in collaboration with SOFTDAY, as a contributing project in the EVA International Exhibition of Art 2016.

 

Education - 1981-2011

2011:          Masters in Social Practice and the Creative Environment, MASPACE Limerick School of Art and Design.

1992/1995: Painting & Photography, Empire State College SUNY.

1981-1985: Limerick School of Art & Design NDAD in Painting. 

 

Selected Exhibitions - 1996-2016

2016   EVA International, Curator Koyo Kouoh

2015   Limerick City Gallery of Art, Curator Úna McCarthy

2013   Labour & Lockout, Limerick City Gallery, 

2013   The Founding Phant, Ormston House 

2012   Urban Tree Project.EVA International,

2011   BrokenLand, Site Specific, Castletroy View Estate, Limerick

2008   Seeing Georgian Limerick, Irish Architectural Archive, Dublin

2008   Seeing Georgian Limerick, Limerick City Gallery

2007   National Self Portrait Collection. UL, Limerick.

2007   Desire, Think Creative Gallery, Limerick

2006   Kilkenny Arts Festival, Curator Mike Fitzpatrick

2006   EV+A, 2006

2005   175 RHA Annual Exhibition, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin

2003   Irish Art, Holton Museum, Colorado, USA

2002   Heroes & Holies, EV+A, site specific, Curator Apinan Poshyananda

2001   Crawford Open 2, Crawford Gallery, Cork

2000   OutArt, Art House, Curator Patrick Murphy, RHA,

          Neighbours & Friends, EV+A, Limerick City Gallery, Curator Rosa Martinez

          Crawford Open 1, Crawford Gallery, Cork

1997   Perspectives on New York, International Resident Artists, Tweed Gallery,

1996   Commerce in Blue Bags, Dept. of Arts, Cultural and the Gaeltacht, Dublin, Parrish Art Museum, New York,Curator Lisa Philips, Whitney Museum of American  Art, Amos Emo Gallery, New York, Curator Claire Bell, The Guggenheim, New York