Background
Eileen's professional background covers fifteen years of experience in Community Development & Adult Education in Northern Ireland, Palestine, and Australia. On returning to Ireland she began a degree in Photography through DIT, graduating in 2004.  She then undertook the  MA in Visual Arts Practice over two years part-time, focusing on art-making. Her MA work has recently been presented as a solo show in the X-PO, Kilnaboy, Co. Clare, and in various group shows in Siamsa Tire, TULCA/Galway Arts Centre, Roscommon Arts Festival, Wexford Arts Center and in Studio 6, Temple Bar Gallery and Studios.

Methodology & Development of Practice
As part of the current debate around the term 'rural', Eileen's practice seeks to consider aspects of the term as a site of cultural 'stutterings'. Researching and responding to the rural aesthetic, visuals representing farming and the rural person's relationship to land, formed the core element of her MA investigation.  Through use of video, photography, and installation, she sought to represent 'the rural', as a dynamic, unstable, contested and intriguing cultural site.