Selected Works

Zone of Sacrifice, 2026.

Zone of Sacrifice is an outreach project in collaboration with 4 class children at St. Audoen’s National School exploring how children can interact with novel ecologies through story and imagination. Through weekly visits to the NCAD Field, the children built their relationships with imagined, feral species who live on the site. This fictional lens allowed the children to understand terrible stories about the changing environment and nature of Dublin 8 while also helping them to feel energized to act. Through costume making and voice recordings, the children developed a live performance/protest exploring the future of the Field which was performed for Art and Ecology students in the Field. This work was then shown as a costume barricade in the NCAD Gallery. This multispecies approach highlighted the importance of allowing children in the locality, with decreasing access to safe and biodiverse sites to develop their creativity, sense of wonder, citizenship and feeling of safety in nature. Zone of Sacrifice exhibited in NCAD Gallery as part of the Art and Ecology Professional Certificate graduate show.

Corporation Tax, 2025-Present.

The Best Catholics in the World by Derek Scally explores how Christianity inserted itself into the hierarchical structures that previously existed in Ireland before the church. Those already in power merely adopted new titles such as Bishop or Monk and continued to live on in the style they were accustomed to, rather than distributing wealth and power more fairly among the population. As soon as the Catholic Church arrived in Ireland, it ran as a corporation that constantly required a tax to keep itself afloat. This, of course, was funded by the average lay person through regular donations and collections. However, members of the Catholic church often paid their dues in other ways such as mirroring an acceptable family status, the sacrifice of bodily autonomy, adhering to a dress code, hiding sexuality, tolerating physical, sexual and verbal abuse and the passing on of information, all in the hope of appearing faithful and loyal to the powers at play. To not adhere to these rules was like a tax gone unpaid and as the debt grew, so did your isolation from the community. Corporation Tax explores how this mask or façade was upheld for so long by an organisation drunk with power. However, no stone can go unturned forever. As the sun rises on a more secularised state, the cracks of the past begin to open and the truth reveals itself. Corporation Tax was nominated as one of Source’s Selected Undergraduate projects for 2025 as well being shortlisted and exhibited as part of the Taylor Wessing Irish Photo Prize 2026 in Photo Museum Ireland.

Egg Mayo, 2025.

Egg Mayo explores the lifespan of the humble egg sandwich. From the laying of the egg to picking the perfect spot to sit and enjoy your meal, Egg Mayo explores how we take the care, time and love in food preparation for granted.

Siúnta in collaboration with Niamh Coffey, 2025.

Emily Roche was invited to creatively respond to the exhibition Siúnta at Pallas Projects/Studios. Emily worked with members of a local queer knit club to create these photos which drew inspiration from the exhibition itself and from the National Folklore Collection archives used in creating Síunta.

Knit Happens, 2024-2025.

Knit Happens explores how a community knitting circle came together when so many young people are being pushed out of Dublin. Through interviews exploring community, futures, creativity and staying in touch with a changing city, Knit Happens finds the joy in collective making.

Solstice, 2024.

Through staged photography, Solstice celebrates the longest day of the year. Through dance and movement, participants shed the harsh realities of the year and look to the long days ahead.