Taylor Wessing Irish Photo Prize 2026

May 6, 2026

I’m deeply honoured to receive the inaugural Taylor Wessing Irish Photo prize.

Talamh

March 6, 2026

I'm delighted to be part of a major exhibition this March in Momentum Fine Art, Miami. “Talamh”, featuring work by eight contemporary Irish photographers, will be formally launched by Minister of State Niamh Smyth TD on Thursday, March 12, 2026, 8pm. A book signing and artist talk will take place on Saturday, March 14, 2026 at 6pm.

Talamh is the Irish word for “land” or “ground,” and carries meanings that extend beyond physical terrain to include heritage, memory, and belonging. The show brings together works by eight Ireland-based contemporary photographers working across a range of themes and united by a shared commitment to long-form photographic projects; Conor Horgan, Shane Lynam, Fionn McCann, Malcolm McGettigan, Yvette Monahan, Brían Sparks, and Agata Stoinska. For this exhibition, Island Photographers have invited Linda Brownlee to exhibit alongside the group.

Talamh explores Ireland as a country shaped by tensions: between extraction and restoration, the inner and outer landscape, deep time and the present moment. What emerges is a portrait of a place both familiar and newly revealed, rooted in history yet continually reshaped by change. Each of the eight artists have experienced this landscape in distinct ways, responding to or interpreting it through the prism of their lived experience. Despite these individual perspectives, overlapping concerns emerge, and their works are bound by the zeitgeist of their era.

The works trace the fine line between myth and lived experience, revealing how both continue to inform the Irish gaze. Ireland is presented not as a fixed idea, but as a living, shifting territory formed by culture,politics, and the people who move through it.

Works from EDGE as part of A R C H I P E L A G O, the largest group photography show ever staged in the RHA, until December 21st (photo Ros Kavanagh)

Pink Oyster Mushrooms, part of my Disco Vegetables series, in the Royal Ulster Academy Annual Show until January 4th

King Oyster Mushroom, part of my Disco Vegetables series, in the dlr Lexicon Lucid Dreaming Open Exhibition until February 15th

Home, Inis Oírr, 2024. On view at Ranelagh Arts Centre Winter Exhibition “Even in the Darkest Times”, created in support of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) and their essential medical work in Gaza.

Being awarded the Rua Red 2025 Annual Open Judge’s Choice Award by director Maoliosa Boyle

With the other artists at the launch of A R C H I P E L A G O, Dublin.

Works on Show Autumn / Winter 2025

November 6, 2025

EDGE

July 5, 2025

Some news about EDGE, my latest body of work. This project is a personal, non-documentary response to the State’s hostility towards homeless International Protection Applicants, particularly on and around Dublin’s Grand Canal. I’m delighted it’s one of fifteen short-listed projects from over 700 worldwide submissions to Photo Museum Ireland’s inaugural International Open Awards Reflecting the Real, which opens at 14:00 this Saturday July 5th. Other works from the series will be seen in the RHA Gallery and in a 10 page portfolio in Source Photographic Review later this year.

Some Theatre News

May 21, 2025

My first one-act play is being given a public reading, directed by Conall Morrison, in the dlr Lexicon on June 14th (Tickets). I'll also be telling a story at the Dublin Story Slam Grandslam in the Abbey Theatre on June 22nd (Tickets).