Qualifications
2002 MA The History and Development of Multimedia in Ireland.
Lecturer experience
1995– 2014 Lecturer in Sculpture, National College of Art and Design where she introduced the first course in video and installation art.
Visiting Guest Lecturer
2006 – 2007 DIT Dublin Lecturer in Photography
2004 Alberta College of Art at Calgary
2008, 2004, 2002, 1999 Belfast College of Art
1996 Limerick College of Art
1996 Sligo College of Art
1995 Belfast College of Art and Design
1993 Liverpool John Moore University
1987 Pace College of Art, New York NY
1987 Hunter College, New York NY
Collections
Arts Council of Ireland
IMMA
National Maternity Hospital
The National Self–Portrait Collection of Ireland
Dublin City Council’s Public Art Collection
Office of Public Works
Private collections in Ireland and internationally
Selected Exhibitions and Performances
Upcoming 2026 November, TULCA, Galway.
Current Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood, Becoming Beloved, VISUAL, Carlow.
2025 Together in Commune, selected paintings from current research, Rua Red, Dublin.
2023 Uprooting Tallaght co-curated with artist Lauren Kelly. Ten commissioned performances for Rua Red that responded to Tallaght past and present.
2023 Uprooting Tallaght, Roadside Memorials, For Jay, Public Site -Specific performance across Tallaght, Dublin.
2022 – 2023 Walking in the Way, a touring exhibition documenting collaborative performances with Frances Mezzetti, South Tipperary Arts Centre, Clonmel, The Lab Gallery, Dublin and The Wexford Arts Centre, Wexford.
2022 Soul Noir Festival, What is Life? Performance, with award winning cellist Ailbhe McDonagh, Daniel O’ Connell Rooms, Irish Georgian Societies City Assembly House, Dublin.
2022 The Narrow Gate of the Here and Now, Sounding the Depths a collaborative installation by Pauline Cummins and Louise Walsh, IMMA, Dublin.
2022 Kilkenny Arts Festival, Matriarch, performance Bare Bones, Kilkenny Castle, Kilkenny.
2021 The Narrow Gate of the Here and Now, Sounding the Depths a collaborative installation by Pauline Cummins and Louise Walsh, IMMA, Dublin.
2021 16 Days of Global Action on Gendered Based Violence (Violence Against Women) at IMMA. Performance designed by Pauline Cummins and Frances Mezzetti with family members of women lost to domestic violence and their representatives. (Special thanks to Rita Fagan and St Michael’s Resource Centre Inchicore for their collaboration).
2020 – 21 39th EVA International Biennial, Women Artists Action Group (Archive of Pauline Cummins), The Old Sailors Home, Limerick, Ireland.
2020 Pluck @ RHA Presents: Women, Artists and The Institution, Becoming Beloved and performance archive, RHA online, Dublin, Ireland.
2019–20 Elliptical Affinities: Irish Women Artists and the Politics of the Body, Inis Oírr / Aran Dance, Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick.
2019 Gaze: IMMA Collection, Inis Oírr / Aran Dance, IMMA, Dublin.
2018, Ain’t I a Woman?, Inis Oírr /Aran Dance, South Tipperary Arts Centre, Clonmel, Co.Tipperary.
2018 In-Vision Festival, None of it Matters,Lighthouse Cinema, Dublin.
2018 Bealtaine, Performance and response to the work of Frank Bowling, IMMA, Dublin.
2017 Soul Noir Festival, When fragility can emerge victorious (an installation of drawings,referencing the Manchester bombing)13 North Great Georges St, Dublin.
2016 Future Histories 2016/1916, No Bones About It…. Kilmainham Gaol, Dublin.
2015 Excuse Me I’m not Finished, The Performance Collective, NCAD Gallery, Dublin.
2015 Belfast International Performance Festival, Remembrance with Sinéad Keogh, the University of Ulster, Belfast.
2014 These Immovable walls – Performing Power, The Spy at the Gate, Dublin Castle, Dublin.
2013 It has no name, Remembrance with Sinéad Keogh, Broadcast Gallery, DIT, Dublin.
2012 Between One and Another (video works by Pauline Cummins and Sandra Vida) shown with additional performance Sweeping Changes at The Irish Cultural Centre, Paris, France and travelled to Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
2012 M:S:T Festival of Performance Art, Leopard Frog, Calgary College of Art, Alberta, Canada.
2012 Galway Arts Festival, Subject to Ongoing Change with The Performance Collective, Galway Arts Centre, Galway.
2012 Labour– an exhibition of performance work by Irish Women Artists, Walking in the Way, with Frances Mezzetti, (Curated by Amanda Coogan, Chrissie Cadman and Helena Walsh) touring exhibition at s p a c e, London, Void Gallery, Derry/Londonderry and The Lab, Dublin.
2010 Right Here Right Now, performance Weeping Willow, Stinging Birch Kilmainham Gaol, Dublin.
2010 Unbuilding, The Still Centre (3 screen installation) Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray, Co. Wicklow.
2010 Chaos, Performance, Sound the Alarm 4, Openspace Gallery, Victoria. BC, Canada.
2010 Sound the Alarm 3, Mon Ton Gallery, Queen St. Toronto, Canada.
2009 Sound the Alarm 2 The Performance Collective, Catalyst Art Centre, Belfast.
2009 Open Studios – Temple Bar Gallery, with The Performance Collective, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin.
2009 The Performance Collective, Catalyst Art Centre, Belfast, Northern Ireland.
2008 Out of Site – Promenade, Head Above Water, Haddon Road, Dublin.
2007 Terms & Conditions curated with Aideen Barry, The Mermaid Art Centre, Bray, Co. Wicklow. (Commissioned live performances with video and sound).
2007 Terms & Conditions, Sound the Alarm, The Mermaid Art Centre Bray, Co. Wicklow, Ireland.
2007 The Selskab Exhibition, Unearthed, Mogens Otto Nielsen residency, Jutland, Denmark.
2007 Portraits of Pain, Film Base, Dublin.
2005 Comharsana Beál Dorais – Irish Art from the collection of IMMA, The Rooms – The Museum of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada and IMMA, Dublin.
2005 At The End of the Pipeline – Celebrating Our Roots, Autonomous Eye, collaborative video with Sandra Vida, EMMEDIA, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
2004 Locus Suspectus: where the hidden comes to light (an exhibition of Canadian and Irish video art curated by Pauline Cummins and Sandra Vida) Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast; Truck Contemporary Art Gallery, Calgary and Paved + Saskatoon, Canada.
2004 TULCA, Entrenched, City Hall, Galway, Ireland.
2002 The Unblinking Eye, Inis Oírr /Aran Dance, IMMA, Dublin.
2000 (Solo exhibition) Power Points (Power-Eyes, 5-2-1, Lifecycles and Entrenched) Tinahely Courthouse Centre, Co. Wicklow. Ireland.
2000 Shifting Ground :Selected works of Irish Art 1950-2000, Inis Oírr Aran Dance, IMMA, Dublin.
2000 The Appearances Project with Sandra Johnston and Frances Mezzetti ( Fathom, Broad Daylight, and Holy Ground) The Botanical Gardens, Dublin, The Harbour Masters Office, Cork, Newtownards Road, Belfast and the medieval ruins of St. Saviour’s, Glendalough, Wicklow (with Breeda Mooney and Fergus Byrne).
1999 Temperate with Sandra Johnston and Frances Mezzetti, The Botanical Gardens, Dublin.
1999 The Challenge of Power – celebrating 25 years of ADAPT, Entrenched, Limerick City Gallery, Limerick.
1999 4 Fold – 4 Contemporary Irish Artists, Tallaght Arts Centre, Dublin.
1999 Going Dutch (with Krijnie Beyen and Breeda Mooney) Dun Laoghaire Town Hall and Golden Apple Gallery, Enkhuizen, the Netherlands.
1999 Intermedia 99, None of it Matters, commissioned performance and video work, Triskel Cinema, Cork.
1999 Violent Incident,None of it Matters,Tate Liverpool, UK.
1997 Re/Dressing Cathleen: Contemporary Works from Irish Women Artists, Sounding the Depths, a collaborative installation with Louise Walsh, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College. Boston, U.S.A.
1997 Academy Without Walls, Good Confessions (2 monitor installation) RHA, Dublin.
1997 Inner Art: Public Art Installations, Good Confession, Installation in confessionals in Our Lady of Lourdes Church, Sean McDermot St Dublin (Organised by The Firestation Artists Studios).
1997 Irish Geographies: 6 Contemporary Artists, Inis Oírr /Aran Dance, Djanogly Art Gallery, The University of Nottingham, England (curated by Catherine Nash).
1996 Becoming Beloved, Hermitage of Maria Magdaleina, Lanzarote.
1995 Becoming Beloved video installation commissioned by The National Maternity Hospital, Dublin.
1995 Sounding the Depths II a collaborative installation by Pauline Cummins and Louise Walsh, IMMA, Dublin.
1994 Irish Days (Two) Flowering potato plants, The Baltic Art Gallery, Ustka, Poland. (Curated by Brian Connelly).
1993 Lifecycles (collaborative exhibition with sculptors and dancers, circular sculpture with embedded video screens and performance) Design Council Gallery, Dublin.
1993 In Control; Woman-Interface-Machine, Sounding the Depths (11) , a collaborative installation by Pauline Cummins and Louise Walsh; Kunstler-haus, Graz, Austria.
1993 Elective Affinities: Sounding the Depths(11) , a collaborative installation by Pauline Cummins and Louise Walsh (two room installation) Tate Liverpool, UK.
1993 Sounding the Depths (11) a collaborative installation by Pauline Cummins and Louise Walsh, Street Level Photographic Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland.
1992 (Two person show) Sounding the Depths (I) a collaborative installation by Pauline Cummins and Louise Walsh, IMMA, Dublin. (Accompanying essay’s by Moira Roth and Hillary Robinson).
1991 In A State, Cocoon (site specific sculpture) Kilmainham Gaol, Dublin. (Organised by The Project Arts Centre, Dublin).
1991 Inheritance and Transformation, inaugural exhibition of the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA), Unearthed ; Photographic and video installation, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin.
1991 The Fifth Province touring exhibition, Inis Oírr /Aran Dance and Unearthed, The Edmonton Art Gallery (Alberta) Memorial University Art Gallery (St.John’s Newfoundland) Arts Gallery of Greater Victoria (Victoria) Nickle Arts Museum (Calgary) and Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Canada.
1991 Available Resources, Inch x Inch (performance to camera made on Inch Island in Donegal) exhibition and conference, Orchard Gallery, Derry/Londonderry, Northern Ireland.
1990 Organiser of an innovative exhibition and conference, Woman artists and the Environment, International exhibition of site-specific sculptures commissioned by WAAG. City Art Centre and Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin.
1990 A New Tradition; Irish Art in the Eighties, Sexuality and Gender, Inis Oírr /Aran Dance, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin.
1990 (Solo show) Inis Oírr /Aran Dance and Unearthed, Ladengalerie, Munich, Germany.
1989 (Solo show) Unearthed and Inis Oírr /Aran Dance, Galleri Sct Agnes, Roskilde, Denmark.
1988 Art Beyond Barriers, Unearthed, International Association of Women Artists, Frauen Museum Bonn, Germany.
1988 Irish Congress of Trade Unions People at Work Exhibition, A Real Worker, Trade Union Building, Dublin.
1988 WAAG – Art Beyond Barriers, performance of Unearthed, Royal Hospital Kilmainham, Dublin and Unearthed installation, Frauenmuseum Bonn, Germany.
1988 New Work Newcastle, Unearthed, Edge commissioned by Projects UK, Newcastle, UK.
1987 Out of Proportion,painting, first official WAAG show, Guinness Hop Store, Dublin.
1987 Slideshow of 91 Women Artists work, (shown during Third International Interdisciplinary Congress on Women and Irish Women’s Art Festival) Project Arts Centre, Dublin.
1986 Primordial Present, GPA Awards, Royal Hospital Kilmainham, Dublin.
1986 The School Show (first in a series of exhibitions in schools) Memorie, commissioned by The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon.
1986 Primordial Present, Irish Exhibition of Living Art, commissioned sound works. Ireland.
1985 3 WOMEN, Inis Oírr /Aran Dance, Hunter College, New York, USA.
1985 Inis Oírr /Aran Dance, Irish Exhibition of Living Art, Gunniness Hop Store, Dublin (nominated by Dorothy Walker for GPA (Guinness Peat Award) for the following year)
1985 (Solo show of new paintings) Kvindegalleriet, Arhus, Denmark. Awarded Visual Arts Bursary from the Cultural committee of the Department of Foreign Affairs in partnership with AerLingus.
1985 (Two person show of new paintings) The Myth of Difference with Rochelle Rubenstein, Peacock Theatre Gallery, Dublin.
1984 Make Your Mark Festival, Anne Kelly is a Midwife, Lombard St Gallery, Belfast, Northern Ireland.
1984 Irish Exhibition of Living Art, Celebration mural, National Maternity Hospital Holles Street, Dublin.
1983 Exhibition of original drawings for An tOllamh agus an Luchog, Peacock Theatre Gallery, Dublin
1981 An tOllamh agus an Luchóg (children’s book co-illustrated with Tom O’Toole) published by Rialtas na hÉireann, Gaeilge. Winner of The Irish Book Design in 1982. The illustrations then travelled to The 20th International Children’s Book Exhibition in Japan in 1985.
1982 Original drawings and research for Unearthed, The Irish Exhibition of Living Art publication. Ireland.
1982 Celebration (accompanied with slideshow of women visual artists sound pieces work about their children and personal photos of children) Nine months and after show, Grapevine Gallery, Dublin.
1982 (Two person show) Celebration and other paintings, Tulfarris Gallery, Blessington, Co. Wicklow (Jackie Ahern performed Hag at the opening).
1981 Pregnancy, Cave Painting series (group show co-curated with Rochelle Rubinstein) Once Upon a Time Gallery, Toronto, Canada.
Residencies, Commissions and Awards
2022 – present Rua Red Studio Residency, Dublin.
2021 – 2022 IMMA Studio Residency, Dublin.
2018 Visionary Award (for longstanding commitment and quality in video art) In-Vision Festival, Dublin.
2017 Research Residency at Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris- towards a performance for the Roman Forum, on Rue Monge in Paris.
2010 Culture Ireland award for performance in Victoria, B.C. Canada.
2007 Special Project Award for Terms & Conditions exhibition.
2007 Commissioned by The Bureau of Everyday Adventures, The Haag, Netherlands.
2006 The School Show revisited: Multimedia project with art teachers and pupils Co. Mayo. Arts Council Award.
2005 Research Grant The Arts Council of Ireland.
2002 Research grant The Arts Council of Ireland.
2000 Major Projects award The Arts Council of Ireland.
1999 Artist’s Residency, Djerassi Art Centre, California, USA.
1998 An Artists in Schools Commission, Wicklow County Council.
1997 Their Spirit Lives On, Photographic lightbox installation, Public Art Commission for Newgrange, Interpretive Centre, Co. Meath (Office of Public Works, Ireland).
1996 Public Art Commission, Collaborative installation with the community, New St. Park, Dublin.
1995 Becoming Beloved Video installation and commission, The National Maternity Hospital, Dublin.
1994 Major Bursary Award, Arts Council Of Ireland.
1992 Residency, Banff Centre, Alberta, Canada.
1992 The Sir Mark Turner Memorial Scholarship. Award, Durassi, USA.
1991 Major Bursary Award Arts Council Of Ireland.
1990 Arts Council Film and Video Award.
1986 The George Campbell Travel Award to Spain.
1985 Arts Council Award.
1985 Visual Arts Bursary from the Cultural committee of the Department of Foreign Affairs in partnership with AerLingus.
1982 The Irish Book Design Award.
Film/Broadcast
2020 Mad Bad & Dangerous : A celebration of “ difficult” women, directed by Emma O ´Grady.
1987 I Live Here – Pauline Cummins, RTÉ production, directed by Anne Mc Cabe.
Bibliography
2025 Pauline Cummins | Feminist Approaches to Art and Activism, Wikimedia Community Ireland’s Podcast, Ireland, Online.
2022 Walking in the Way: Performing Masculinity, Pauline Cummins and Frances Mezzetti. ed:Catherine Marshall,WAAG publication, Dublin.
2022 How men and women occupy public space in different ways, Marjorie Brennan (11th May) Irish Examiner, Dublin.
2022 Walking in the Way, RTÉ Culture File, RTÉ Radio 1 (19th April) National Radio, Ireland.
2022 Irish Art 1920 – 2020, ed: Catherine Marshall and Yvonne Scott, Royal Irish Academy publication, Dublin.
2022 The Narrow Gate of the Here and Now. IMMA: 30 years of the global contemporary, IMMA publication, Dublin.
2016 Modern Ireland In 100 Artworks1916 – 2016, ed: Fintan O’Toole, Catherine Marshall and Dr. Eibhear Walshe, (1984) Celebration the beginning of Labour, Irish Times Publication, Dublin.
2015 Performance Art In IrelandA History, ed: Áine Phillips, Live Art Development Agency and Intellect Books publication, Bristol, UK.
2014 Art And Architecture In Ireland Yale University Press and Royal Irish Academy publication, New Haven, Connecticut, USA and Dublin.
2014 Twentieth Century Art and Artists, ed: Catherine Marshall and Peter Murray, Crawford Gallery Cork and IMMA publication, Dublin.
2013 Art In Ireland Since 1910, ed: Fionna Barber, Reaktion Books publication, London, UK.
2009 The Performance Collective, Slavka Sverakova, Circa (Spring) Belfast, Northern Ireland.
2006 And the One Doesn’t Stir without the Other, ed:Ursula Burke and Ruth Jones, Ormeau Baths Gallery publication. , Belfast, Northern Ireland.
2005 Dialogues: Women Artists from Ireland, ed: Katy Deepwell, I.B. Taurus, New York and London.
2005 Locus Suspectus: where the hidden comes to light, by Kay Burns, Artichoke (vol.17 no.1, Spring) p.32-35, Toronoto, Canada.
2004 Artist’ Actions and the Politics of Representation, Locus Suspectus- Where the hidden comes to light catalogue, Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast and Truck Contemporary Art Gallery, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
2004 Depictions of Motherhood, Pauline Cummins, Thoughtlines 7: an anthology of Research, ed: Maebh O’ Reagan, National College of Art and Design publication (p.131-137) Dublin.
2003 The One Doesn’t stir without the Other,(Inis Oírr/Aran Dance) Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast, Northern Ireland.
2003 I’ll spin you a yarn, I’ll weave you a tale: Subverting Patriarchy through art and women’s work, by Catherine Marshall, Irish Journal of Feminist Studies, (Spring), Cork.
2000 Unearthed, performance script by Pauline Cummins, n.paradoxa (vol. 5, p.71-73) Washington, USA.
1998 Tallaght Arts Centre, Art Bulletin (no. 83 Vol 15,Oct/Nov) p.18-19, Dublin.
1998 The Live Medium, Art Bulletin, Aoife Desmond (no. 81 Vol.15, June/July) p.3-7, Ireland.
1997 Opium of the Masses, Inner Art, Gemma Tipton, Circa (No. 82, Winter) p.30-34, Belfast, Northern Ireland.
1997 Broad & Narrow, Inner Art, (Good Confession) Medb Ruane, Sunday Times (Sept 14), Dublin.
1997 Temple Bar, Success or Circus, (Good Confession) Art Bulletin (no. 76 Vol.14, Aug/Sept) p.14-18, Ireland.
1995 Installations at National Maternity Hospital, Medb Ruane, Sunday Times (January 8), Dublin.
1995 Report From Ireland-Art from the Edge (Part 1), Judith Higgins (Dec) p.37-40, Art in America, NewYork, USA.
1995 Irish / Women / Artwork, Hilary Robinson, Feminist Review (no. 5), London, UK.
1994 Women and Technology (Sounding the Depths) Pauline Cummins, Ruimte Art Magazine (vol.11) p.32-33, Amsterdam.
1994 Irish Days, Alastair MacLennan, Anne Tallentire, Sandra Johnston, Brian Connolly, Circa (no. 70, Winter) p.53-57, Belfast, Northern Ireland.
1994 Containment or Integration?, Jackie Ryan, Art in Context, Circa (no. 70, Winter) p.50-52. Belfast, Northern Ireland.
1994 Elective Affinities, Caroline Juler, Untitled, London, (Winter) London, UK.
1994 A real head-turner that always makes January Special (Life Cyles) The Sunday Press (January 23) Dublin.
1993 In the Grip of Adult Limbs, Elective Affinities, A. Greenan, Women’s Art Magazine (Winter) p.19-20, London, UK.
1992 Shells and Mouths at IMMA, Sylvia Thompson,The Sunday Press (April 26) Dublin.
1992 Sounding the Depths, Mick Moroney, Irish Times (April 10) Dublin.
1992 In Control- Mensch-Interface-Machine, Pauline Cummins, Catalogue (p.33-34) Kunstverein W.A.S., Gratz, Austria.
1992 Nudes with Feminist Kick, Aidan Dunne, The Sunday Tribune (April 5) Dublin.
1992 Reclaiming the Female Body, Helen Meany, Irish Times (March 3) Dublin.
1992 Sounding the Depths, Jaki Irvine, Circa (no. 62) Belfast, Northern Ireland.
1992 Womb with a View, Neil McCafferty, Hot Press (April 7) Dublin.
1992 Performance artists end up with audience in palms of their hands (Cummins and Nigel Rolfe at Latitude 53 Gallery) The Edmonton Journal (November 16) Edmonton, Canada.
1990 Sexuality and Gender in A New Tradition, Irish Art of the Eighties Dublin: Douglas Hyde Gallery, Joan Fowler, Douglas Hyde publication. Dublin.
1990 Art review. Malve Gradinger, Munchner Merkur (March 12) Munich, Germany.
1990 Inis Oírr /Aran Dance, New Observations, ed: Dorothy Cross (no. 80) p.p 10-11, New York, USA.
1989-90 Bronze by Gold, the work of Irish Women Sculptors, Irish Arts Review Yearbook, Dorothy Walker, (vol 6) pp.207-13, Dublin.
1989 A Series of Changes, Pauline Cummins, Performance Magazine, London, UK.
1987 Image Making, Image Breaking, Pauline Cummins, B. Jones, Pat Murphy and Ailbhe Smyth, CIRCA (no.32) Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Conferences
2025 WAAG Symposium, WAAG – an archive, South Tipperary Arts Centre, Clonmel, Tipperary, Ireland.
2024 Feminist Art Making Histories (IRC/AHRC) & IMMA Ireland, Feminism, Art – A Gathering, IMMA, Dublin, Ireland.
2019 Sculpture In Process, presentation Sculpture as a Factor in the Transformation of Place and Space, University of Fine Arts in Pozna?, Pozna?, Poland.
2013 Re-Imagining Birth, School of Art History and Cultural Policy, UCD, Dublin.
2013 Memory and Testimony, roundtable discussion, DIT, Dublin.
2012 Keynote speaker, Sweeping Changes, forum on feminist artists action in Canada, Ireland and France, Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris, France.
2010 Landscape as the locus for artistic transfers between Ireland, Northern Ireland and Great Britain from 1968 to the present day, Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris, France.
2003 The One Doesn’t stir without the Other, Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast, Northern Ireland. Curated by Ursula Burke and Ruth Jones. Guest speaker with Whitney Chadwick and Marsha Meskimmon, chaired by Hilary Robinson.
2001 The Appearances Project: Installation and Seminar, Re- Appearances, Collaboration with Sandra Johnston and Frances Mezzetti on site-specific performances Temperate, Fathom, Broad Daylight, and Holy Ground.With artists Sandra Johnston, Frances Mezzetti, Alanna O’Kelly, Frances Hergarty, Carol Kavanagh and art historian, Hilary Robinson. Arthouse, Dublin, Ireland.
2001 Get that Balance, forum with Marina Abramovic, National Sculpture Factory, Cork. Ireland.
1999 Violent Incident – Critical Forum Conference, with Marina Abramovic, Pavel Buchler, Julian Stallabrass and Mandy Merck, in collaboration with The University of Liverpool, The Tate Liverpool, UK.
1991 The Fifth Province: Conference on Irish and Canadian Contemporary Art. Performance Unearthed, The Edmonton Art Gallery, Alberta, Canada.
1990 Organiser of an innovative exhibition and conference, Woman artists and the Environment, International exhibition of site-specific sculptures commissioned by WAAG and conference. City Art Centre and Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin. Keynote speakers The Guerilla Girls.
1989 Issues in Contemporary Art – a series of six panel discussions, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin.
1987 Women’s Caucus of Arts, with May Stevens, Cecilia Vacuna and Adrian Piper. National Conference Exhibition, Boston, USA.
1986-1990 International Association of Woman in the Arts (IAWA) conferences in Amsterdam, WAAG Frauenmuseum Bonn, Gratz and IMMA Dublin.
1988 WAAG Conference Derry, organiser and panel participant with Professor Moira Roth, Helen Chadwick, Fionna Barber, May Stevens and Aileen McKeown, Foyle Arts Centre, Derry/ Londonderry.