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Joey is a Belfast-based artist who works in a range of media, including drawing, sculpture, audio, video and installation, to explore human/nonhuman co-creation of the world. He completed his PhD at the Belfast School of Art in early 2025 and is continuing his work on alternative modes of enquiry.

Aug 2025 – residency with Jatiwangi Art Factory and Void Derry.

2019-2025 – An Enquiry into Ecological Space through Art Practice: Fermentation, Drawing and Diagramming, PhD (Belfast School of Art, Ulster University).

Sep 2024 – Peripheral Visions, exhibition (FLAX Art Studios, Belfast).

Aug 2024 – Peripheral Visions, residency and exhibition (PS2, Belfast).

Jan-Jul 2022 – Consequent Transformations, residency and group exhibition, ‘Landscape, Ecology & Environment Research’ Residency (Leitrim Sculpture Centre, Manorhamilton, Ireland).

Nov 2020 – Peculiar Projections of the Demiurge, publication, ‘Intersections 2’ (Ulster University, Belfast), drawings and text.

Nov 2019 – Peculiar Projections of the Demiurge, group exhibition, ‘Hyperobjects’ (Catalyst Arts, Belfast).

Oct 2019 – Eco-evo-devo and the Hypercycles of an Extended Self, residency and exhibition, Platform Arts Graduate Award residency (Platform Arts, Belfast).

Feb 2019 To Imagine What Cares, exhibition and performance, ‘IMAGINE! Belfast Festival of Ideas and Politics’, (Framewerk Gallery, Belfast).

2015-2018 – MFA Fine Art, distinction (Belfast School of Art,Ulster University).

Feb 2018 Memory Projection, group screening, ‘Mount Florida Screenings’ (CCA Glasgow)

May 2015 – Art and Science in the Age of Global Catastrophe, talk and discussion (London LASER 10).

Feb 2015 – Archival Affects, workshop for MA Art and Science at Central Saint Martins (CSM Museum & Study Collection, UAL, London).

2014-2015 – Drawing Life, workshop collaboration with the Grant Museum of Zoology, ‘Share Academy’ (University of the Arts London and the London Museums Group).

Oct 2014 – Terms of Engagement, talk (Government Office for Science, London).

June 2013 – Nonanonamourous, participatory intervention, ‘Bilderberg Fringe Festival’ (Watford).

Apr 2013 – Salving Successions and Ruptures with the Past, installation and performance (The Old Operating Theatre Museum, London).

Feb 2013 – Creativity and Science: Dispatches from the Art World, talk, ‘SciBar’ (Oxfordshire Branch of the British Science Association, Oxford).

Dec 2012 – Material Matters, workshop for MA Art and Science at Central Saint Martins (UCL Science Collections, London).

Nov 2014 – Topographies of a Nested Soul,Vanishing Entities, performance (LimeWharf, London).

Jun 2013 – Nonanonamourous, Bilderberg Fringe Festival, participatory intervention (Watford).

Apr 2013 – Salving Successions and Ruptures with the Past, exhibition and performance (The Old Operating Theatre Museum, London).