In Conversation

Danny Foley & Dr. Collette Nolan

  • Thursday 10 September
  • 5:30 pm
  • Studio 12
  • Public Event

Join Danny Foley in conversation with artist, educator and Foley’s mother Dr. Collette Nolan.

In this event, they will discuss some of the concepts in his solo show Room Innate and the archival footage in the show that Nolan recorded of Foley as a child as part of her MA and PhD research.

Through both Nolan’s perspective as well as Foley’s response to her recordings of his early embodied gestures, the discussion will explore the relationship between Foley’s approach to making art and how his reinterpretation of Nolan’s recordings has influenced his practice.

Danny Foley is Cork based artist and studio-holder at Backwater Artists Group. He holds a BA First-Class Honours Degree in Fine Art from MTU Crawford College of Art and Design (2025). His art practice spans drawing, painting, moving-image, and installation. Informed by archival footage from his childhood, he explores identity through “the shapeshifter” as both an artistic approach and conceptual framework across mythological, ecological, and personal perspectives. Recent solo shows include Room Innate (Studio 12, Cork) and Beyond Eye Sea (Lavit Gallery, Cork). Recent group shows include Shapeshifting (GOMA, Waterford), Cross-Pollinate (Clancy Quay Studios, Dublin), and Earth (James Barry Exhibition Centre, Cork). His work has been featured in the Irish Examiner and Irish Arts Review. Awards include Student of the Year, Best Thesis Prize, Cork City Council, Cork County Council, Eli Lilly, and MTU Arts Office Purchase Prizes, which acquired his works for their art collections.

Dr. Collette Nolan is a Cork based visual artist, researcher and educator working in the medium of experimental video and installation. she completed an MA by Research at CCAD and a PhD by Practice in Media at NAD and the Graduate School of Creative Arts & Media, Dublin, (GradCAM). She is a director/studio holder of Coal Yard Studios (Cork Artists Collective) and is a Fine Art lecturer at the Crawford College of Art & Design, Cork.

Collette’s areas of research in her practice and collaborative research with other artists and Crawford colleagues involve phenomenology, pedagogy, experimental film/sound and installation.

PhD Title: Extimacy: Revealing the Hidden Embodied Gestures of Child’s Play Through Video Art Installation.

She has exhibited widely in Ireland and internationally.

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