August 2015-Present_
February-April 2014_
August-Dec 2012_
July-August 2012 &
February-March 2013_
PROFILE
I am an illustrator and lecturer in Graphic Design Communication and Animation Motion Design at LSAD, TUS in Limerick, Ireland. Currently, my creative practice and PhD research focuses on the dynamic intersection of art and technology, with a particular interest in how emerging Augmented Reality (AR) technologies enable artists and designers to create immersive, place-based narratives. Through illustration, audio, and interactivity, I explore innovative ways to tell stories about a place, within the place itself, creating a blend of storytelling and spatial experience.
EMPLOYMENT
Lecturer
Limerick School of Art & Design, Technical University of the Shannon, Limerick, Ireland
Limerick School of Art & Design, Technical University of the Shannon, Limerick, Ireland
Lecturer in the programmes of Graphic Design Communication & Animation/ Motion Design.
• Develop and deliver modules in Visual Communication, including:
_Digital Skills: Proficient use of Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and After Effects
_Pre-production for Motion Design and Animation: From storyboarding to style-frames.
_Illustration Techniques: Integration of analogue and digital methods.
_Photography: DSLR fundamentals, post-production, composition and narrative techniques
• Mentor and assess students through the development of graduate projects across departments, fostering interdisciplinary collaboration and building partnerships with industry professionals.
_Digital Skills: Proficient use of Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and After Effects
_Pre-production for Motion Design and Animation: From storyboarding to style-frames.
_Illustration Techniques: Integration of analogue and digital methods.
_Photography: DSLR fundamentals, post-production, composition and narrative techniques
• Mentor and assess students through the development of graduate projects across departments, fostering interdisciplinary collaboration and building partnerships with industry professionals.
Guest Lecturer
Stellenbosch University, Visual Arts Department, South Africa
Stellenbosch University, Visual Arts Department, South Africa
• Create and deliver modules in motion-based illustration and sequential narratives
• Drawing for Motion: experimental drawing module
• Drawing for Motion: experimental drawing module
Assistant Lecturer & Workshop Facilitator _The Animation Workshop, Viborg, Denmark
• Assistant teacher in the International module Animation as a Learning Tool
• Animation Workshop facilitator at the Centre for Animation Pedagogics
• Introducing techniques, processes and principles of storytelling: storyboarding, stage construction/lighting and character development for stop-motion animation.
• Animation Workshop facilitator at the Centre for Animation Pedagogics
• Introducing techniques, processes and principles of storytelling: storyboarding, stage construction/lighting and character development for stop-motion animation.
Guest Lecturer & Artist in Residence_ Scuola Internazionale di Grafica, Venice, Italy
• Experimental Animation: storytelling using pre-cinema devices including Phenakistoscopes, Flip-books, Thaumotropes and Zoetropes
• Mentoring and collaborating with students and other resident artists.
• Mentoring and collaborating with students and other resident artists.
RECENT PROJECTS
Limerick 2030_OPERA CENTRE_Limerick City, Ireland
Collaboration with Limerick School of Art & Design Students to create a series of Augmented Reality Murals.
Collaboration with Limerick School of Art & Design Students to create a series of Augmented Reality Murals.
Window Wonderland_Ontario, Canada
Community-based Augmented Reality art project and urban art exhibition.
Women’s Rights are Human Rights_LSAD, Limerick, Ireland
Augmented reality posters created in response to Women’s Rights Day
Waterford Walls Augmented Reality Murals_Waterford, Ireland
In collaboration with LSAD, BePart and Brightening Air
GRANTS AWARDS & ACHIEVEMENTS
• 2023: Publication of Children’s book: The Magic Key by Sandviks Publishing, Norway
• 2015: Publication of Children’s book: The PossibiliTree by Bumble Books, SA
• 2012: The Open Workshop Grant for new media project development, Viborg, Denmark.
• 2011: Selected for Art Enclosures Residency at Casa de Trei Oci, Venice, Italy.
• 2011: Oppenheimer Trust Bursary for International Study, Stellenbosch University.
• 2008: Pro Helvetica Grant for ‘Place I Know Well` project at La Corbiere, Switzerland.
• 2007: Winner of the Emma Smith Art Scholarship, Durban University of Technology.
• 2015: Publication of Children’s book: The PossibiliTree by Bumble Books, SA
• 2012: The Open Workshop Grant for new media project development, Viborg, Denmark.
• 2011: Selected for Art Enclosures Residency at Casa de Trei Oci, Venice, Italy.
• 2011: Oppenheimer Trust Bursary for International Study, Stellenbosch University.
• 2008: Pro Helvetica Grant for ‘Place I Know Well` project at La Corbiere, Switzerland.
• 2007: Winner of the Emma Smith Art Scholarship, Durban University of Technology.
EDUCATION
PhD candidate, University of Limerick, Limerick, Ireland.
September 2021 to Current.
September 2021 to Current.
M.Phil. Visual Communication
(Illustration) Stellenbosch University, South Africa.
Diploma Animation Pedagogics, VIA University College, Viborg, Denmark.
Bachelor of Art (Honours), Durban University of Technology, South Africa.
Diploma in Graphic Design, Vega Imagination Lab, Durban, South Africa.
THESIS TITLES
• Place-Based Storytelling with Augmented Reality Illustration (Pending)
• Animated Storytelling as Collaborative Practice (2013)
• People in Space Make Place: An Investigation of Walking and Mapping as Art (2007)
• Animated Storytelling as Collaborative Practice (2013)
• People in Space Make Place: An Investigation of Walking and Mapping as Art (2007)
LANGUAGES
English_ Mother
Afrikaans_Basic
Italian_Basic