Gail Mahon

Currently in position as practice-based Ph.D. Researcher with Ulster University, (2023). Awarded the Northern Bridge Doctoral Scholarship (AHRC) partnered with Durham Univeristy. A graduate of the Royal College of Art, Master in Ceramics & Glass, Mahon has developed practices through residencies or creative responses to site-specific locations in the UK, Italy, and Ireland. A close working relationship with arts organisation, Art Arcadia, as A-I-R in 2016, 2018, 2023 has supported her approach to exploring scale and performance development. A recipient of a residency at Leitrim Sculpture Centre, 2021, with sound artist Aengus Friel Lawrence, producing ‘Haptic Oscillations’ film and live performance event for Culture Night 2021. Gail is also currently a board member for ECHO ECHO Dance Theatre Company, a professional dance, and movement company based in Derry City, where she had previously performed as part of their festivals and commissioned projects.

Gail has been an invited speaker and teacher at several UK and Ireland universities, Ulster University, NUI Galway, and QUB Belfast, bringing the roles of Artist, Educator, and Cultural Producer together to discuss collaboration as a key transformation in her creative practice.

The founder of the CAAKE project – a collaborative art project in Northern Ireland, (2016-2020) helped to shape her socially engaged practice and current research which aims to develop collaborative residencies, partnerships, and public participation in workshops and events as adaptive learning situations underpinned and incited by LIVING ART + ART OF LIVING.
A vision of cultural changes is hidden in plain sight of our movement ecology, as interactions around labour, technology, and consumption. Her work will take an Ecosomatic position that reviews the complexity of our health in the simplest terms of revitalised communities’ people and our natural ecology. Programmes in public engagement are being developed inside the context of her PhD studies via- THE CLAY GYMNASIUM.
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