Peripheral Visions

We're excited to host Joey O'Gorman in the PS² project space as part of our annual residency for artist parents/artist carers. 

Whilst in-residence, Joey will be continuing to develop a body of work called Peripheral Visions, which presents a range of modes of enquiry - drawing, sculpture, audio performance and moving image - as part of an ongoing and speculative enquiry into ecological space. Through these practices affective dimensions of experience are traced in the making, opening up a view of a world extended through co-creative interactions. 

About the artist: 

Joey is a Belfast-based artist who researches human/non-human co-creation of the world. He works in a range of media, including drawing, sculpture, audio and video production, and installation, and is interested in speculative and affective modes of enquiry. 

After studying Crop Protection, he worked as a molecular biologist from 2002-2012 before working as an exhibition designer and installer in London from 2012-2015. During this time, he worked as a research associate with Central Saint Martins Art and Science MA programme, where he produced seminars and workshops with museums and archive collections for students (Material Matters with the UCL Science and Engineering Collections, 2012 and Archival Affects with the Central Saint Martins’ Museum and Study Collection, 2015) and the public (Drawing Life at the Grant Museum of Zoology (UCL), 2014-2015). 

He moved to Belfast in 2015 where he studied for a Fine Art MFA at the Belfast School of Art and worked as a co-director of the artist-led organisation Catalyst Arts. After graduating he commenced a PhD in 2019 under the supervision of Dan Shipsides and Aisling O’Beirn, during which he showed work in Framewerk gallery (To Imagine What Cares, 2019), Platform Arts (Eco-evo-devo and the Hypercycles of an Extended Self, 2019), Catalyst Arts (Peculiar Projections of the Demiurge, 2019) and the Leitrim Sculpture Centre (Consequent Transformations, 2022).