Join Billie Adele in conversation with Cork-based artist Kevin Mooney as they discuss the ideas and processes behind SOFTctrl.

 

The discussion will explore themes of constructed femininity, symbolism, painting, and the role of transformation within Adele’s practice.

 

Billie Adele is a visual artist whose practice explores the wildness and contradictions of identity and embodiment through large-scale figurative paintings and sculptural installations. Billie graduated with First Class Honours from MTU Crawford College of Art and Design in 2025. She was the recipient of the Backwater Artists Group Ciarán Langford Memorial Bursary, the Sample Network Award and the Swerve Magazine Residency Prize. Her work was included in the RHA 195th Annual Exhibition.

 

Kevin Mooney is an Irish artist based in Sample Studios, Cork. Informed by mythology, history, and cultural migration, his work explores a speculative art history of the Irish diaspora. Kevin graduated with an MFA from NCAD in 2012. Since then, he has received several Visual Arts Bursaries from the Arts Council. His work is held in various private and public collections in Ireland and abroad, including Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda, the Arts Council of Ireland, the OPW, and Galway City Council.