In Conversation

Billie Adele & Kevin Mooney

  • Friday 10 July
  • 1pm
  • Studio 12
  • Public Event
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 Cork. His work is informed by mythology, folklore, and histories of cultural migration. His exhibitions include Revenants, Irish Museum of Modern Art, 2022 (solo); Ancestors, Hillsboro Fine Art, Dublin, 2025 (solo); Tuberclerosies, Luan Gallery, Athlone, 2024, (solo); Pine’s Eye, Talbot Rice Gallery of Art, Edinburgh, 2020; EVA International, Limerick, 2018, as well as the forthcoming Silt and Sorcery with Cecilia Bullo at Hillsboro Fine Art, which opens on Dublin Gallery Weekend next November.

Kevin graduated with an MFA from NCAD in 2012. Since then, he has received several Visual Artists Bursaries from the Arts Council of Ireland. His work is held in various private and public collections including The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Crawford Gallery, Cork, the Arts Council of Ireland, Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda, the OPW, and Galway City Council. His solo exhibition, The Erlish Tide, in the Excel Gallery, Tipperary, was supported by an Arts Council Commissions Award. He is represented by Hillsboro Fine Art, Dublin, and teaches part time in the Crawford College of Art and Design.

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