I’m honoured to be included in The First Frontier was the Horizon in Solstice Arts Centre, Navan to mark the centre’s 20th anniversary. 

Full list of exhibitors: Rachel Clarke, Abigail Connell, Kevin Cosgrove, Paul Gaffney, Aileen Hamilton, Penelope Lacey Monaghan, Ben McCabe, Jennifer O’Brien, Lesley Ann O’Connell, Carol O’Connor, William O’Neill, Eileen O’Sullivan, Hazel O’Sullivan, Annabel Potterton, Joanne Reid, Mette Sofie Roche, Annette Smyth, Charles Tyrrell, Suella Wynne. 

Opening reception from 6pm on Culture Night, Friday 18 September 

https://solsticeartscentre.ie/event/the-first-frontier-was-the-horizon

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‘Trace Material’ is included in Living Lands, a Bailieborough Creative Hub group exhibition which opens on Culture Night in Bailieborough Library to celebrate creativity, community and the incredible talent of local artists. Our annual exhibition brings together a wonderful collection of artwork, showcasing a variety of styles, ideas and perspectives. Opening @ 6.30pm, Friday 18 September. Supported by Cavan Arts. #culturenight #localartists #celebratecreativity #thinkitcreateitshareit

Some of my images were selected for The Uncanny Feminine exhibition in The Grosvernor Building, Manchester University from 18-20 August 2026.

Through painting, photography, sculpture, moving image, performance and installation, curator Maysie Taylor brings together 22 artists exploring femininity, emotional repression and identity through the framework of the uncanny.

‘Shroud’ was selected to appear in this year’s Summer Open Exhibition at The Swift Cultural Centre, Trim, Co Meath.

Swift Summer Open 2026 brings together artists at every stage of their careers, showcasing the breadth and diversity of contemporary artistic practice. Featuring works across painting, drawing, sculpture, printmaking, and mixed media, the exhibition presents a dynamic range of ideas, perspectives, and creative approaches, reflecting the vitality and ambition of visual art in the region today.

‘Shroud’ is a mixed media piece combining photography and site specific ‘finds’. Stitched over reeds is found baler’s twine while the sky is filled with the remnants of a decaying blue and white plastic bag. In this image I explore the idea that brokenness holds its own kind of beauty, and that restoration need not conceal damage but can instead highlight it with care and intention. The resulting work is a gesture towards empathy with the land – a document of resilience, vulnerability, and the traces we leave behind.

One of three photographs in the exhibition.

Walking through the woods, I’ve been using intentional camera movement as a way of responding to the landscape through feeling it, rather than simply documenting it. Instead of trying to capture the trees clearly, I let movement and light shape the image as it’s made. The camera becomes less of a recording tool and more a way of translating atmosphere and emotion.

The images end up somewhere between photography and painting. Trees blur into lines becoming marks and traces, and familiar forms start to break apart. I’m interested in moving away from a clear description of the landscape and towards something that feels closer to the experience of being there.

Through abstraction, I’m trying to hold onto something of that experience — not a record of the woods themselves, but what it feels like to be within them.

‘Field Notes’ runs from 25 -28 June 2026 in The Blue Chapel, Kells during the Hinterland Festival.

What does it mean to photograph health, illness and lived experience?
The REMEDY Open Call exhibition now showing at Not Quite North in Lincoln brings together photographers from the UK, Europe and the US exploring themes of health, wellbeing and identity. These projects are rooted in personal experience and long-term engagement — from chronic illness and recovery to trauma, identity and changing relationships with the body. Featuring work exploring alopecia, breast cancer, childhood abuse, vestibular migraine and other ongoing health conditions, the exhibition brings together documentary, portraiture, archive and experimental approaches.

Together, these projects explore how photography can tell more honest, nuanced stories about health — placing lived experience, collaboration and care at the centre.

Very pleased to be a part of this group exhibition along with @poppy.photog@sarajwinston @iamelegia @jeanne.paturel @isaac.a.q@unreelcity @suella.wynne @tobiasbeachwyld @sabrinamero @charli_creative

For more details about the Remedy Photo Festival visit https://remedyphoto.com

Extended Run
Bailieborough Library, Bailieborough, Co Cavan

An Act of Madness is a collaboration between writer Martin Towey and photographic artist Suella Wynne, inspired by the few details known about his great-grandmother, Bridget Towey (née Flanagan), and her committal to Connaught District Lunatic Asylum in 1914. Suella’s images provide a visual context for the story, exploring Ireland’s history of mental health care, wrongful institutionalisation, and societal attitudes toward postnatal depression and mental illness.

The project aims to spark dialogue about how mental health is understood and discussed today, confronting the silence and stigma that have persisted across generations. Originally launched as a book and exhibition in 2019, the work continues to evolve — Martin is currently rewriting it as a play under the title A Dangerous Lunatic.

With text panel designs by Elena Duff.

Supported by Cavan Arts, Cavan Library Services and Bailieborough Creative Hub

‘Shroud’ by Suella Wynne

IOVA Photography Collective host The Four Elements exhibition in Gallery X, Hume Street, Dublin 2 opening at 6pm on Thursday 5 February and running until Saturday 14th February. Open Tuesday to Sat 1-5pm.

The Four Elements is a group exhibition exploring Earth, Air, Fire, and Water through contemporary photography. Moving beyond documentation, the show invites artists to treat the elements as emotional, symbolic, and lived spaces shaped by memory, movement, and change.

‘Shroud’ is a mixed media piece combining photography and site specific ‘finds’. Stitched over reeds is found baler’s twine while the sky is filled with the remnants of a decaying blue and white plastic bag. In this image I explore the idea that brokenness holds its own kind of beauty, and that restoration need not conceal damage but can instead highlight it with care and intention. The resulting work is a gesture towards empathy with the land –  a document of resilience, vulnerability, and the traces we leave behind.

Curated by Patrick Murphy
Venue: Solstice Arts Centre, Navan (in collaboration with Droichead Arts Centre & An Táin Arts Centre)

I’m pleased to share that two of my self-portrait photographs have been selected for Surveyor 2025, Solstice Arts Centre’s fourteenth annual open exhibition.

Organised in collaboration with the North East Network, Surveyor highlights the breadth of contemporary visual arts practice across Meath and Louth. This year’s exhibition brings together artists from the region, offering an engaging overview of current work and creative dialogue within the local arts community.

Curated by K:art Studio × Yiming Pi
Venue: Pie Factory Margate Gallery, UK
Dates: November 12–18, 2025

I’m delighted to share that my work, A Joining of Self, will be included in Chronicles of Intimacy — a group exhibition exploring the many layers of intimacy through fable, symbolism, and narrative.

Featuring artists from around the world, the exhibition reimagines intimacy as a dynamic, collective experience — one shaped by emotion, power, vulnerability, and connection across human and more-than-human realms.

Artists include:
Alena Saakian, Caijing Kuang, Chen Ren, Dora Siafla, Fanglin Luo, Fù Miàn, Gina Torchia, Jianjian Zixi Liu, Jingjing Xu, Julieta Tetelbaum, Lou Croff Blake & Madelyn Byrd, Manze Guo, Martina Licalsi, Milo Masonicic, Najme Kazazi, Olha Kalika, Qingyu Zheng, Pante’A Rezaei, Sadie Hennessy, Shenlu Liu, Suella Wynne, Valentina Sepúlveda, Valeria Solari, Valeriia Burliuk, Valentin Sismann, Vera da Costa, Ylenia-Gaia Dotti, Yuna Ding, and Yvette Yujie Yang.