I’m an artist, creative, intuitive and
explorer of multi-dimensional platforms.
contact me on pupaktransformation@gmail.com
for any collaboration and/or queries.
Kathleen O'Leary
Contemporary Artist | Performance & Visual Arts | Facilitator.
Location: Ireland | Online
EDUCATION & TRAINING
2026 Workability Programme https://www.pobal.ie/programmes/workability-inclusive-pathways-to-employment-programme/
2025/'24 Reiki Practioner level 1, 2 & Master level 3 with Adrianna Vais NeferPtah
Ordained Priestess of Goddess Aset. Reiki Grand Master, Teacher, Ancient Egyptian Reiki Practitioner.
2023 – RehabCare Induction Training
2021 – Mastermind Business Course (3 months) with Allera Dawn, Life and Business Coach
“Unapologetically You” – 4-week Business Coaching Intensive
2020 – The Artist’s Way (Julia Cameron) with Marianne Adams, Senior Art Therapist,
and Lou Martin (Channel / Intuitive / Counsel)
Web-Spinning Online Creative Writers Group facilitated by Isolde Carmody, Writer, performer and
Story archaeologist https://storyarchaeology.com/author/isolde/ https://guidedogs.ie/story/isolde-ari/
Funded by Creative Ireland Programme and Leitrim County Council.
Accredited Professional Aromatherapy. For Wellness And A Healthy Lifestyle.
Level 2 Diploma with Tania Magdalene. The Academy of Ancient Magik.
Accredited Aromatherapy
Level 1 Diploma with Tania Magdalene. The Academy of Ancient Magik.
Aromatherapy Course For Natural Living with Mark Perren-Jones Certified Aromatherapist.
Herbalism: Identify & Harvest Wild Medicinal Plants Certified Course with Elizabeth Heck
Qualified Herbalist Instructor.
2019 Accredited Herbalism: Introduction & Medicine Making Course with Elizabeth Heck
Top Qualified Herbalism Instructor.
2012–2013 – M.A. (1st Class Hons.) Art in the Contemporary World, N.C.A.D., University College Dublin
2005–2001 – B.F.A. (Hons.), Atlantic Technological University, Sligo
2006 – Facilitation Skills Course, The Dock, Carrick-on-Shannon (Cross Border Peace Initiative)
1999–2001 – Art & Design, Cork College of Commerce, West Cork Campus.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS & PERFORMANCES
2026
Waking the Land Solo Performance, The Dock, Carrick-on-Shannon, Co. Leitrim.
2025
Moving together, Dance Workshop with Kate Wilson.
2024
From Here, A Bridge – Group performance, UnderCurrent Ensemble, The Dock, Carrick-on-Shannon
Second Sight | Site – Solo performance, Disrupt Disability Arts Festival, Project Arts Centre, Dublin.
2023
Artist in Residence & Program Facilitator, The Bridge & Elevate, Cleveragh, Rehabcare Centres, Sligo.
Co-host, NeuroPride Ireland Craft (Zoom)
Representative, DADA & Disability Power Ireland
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2022
Between Earth and Sky: Unearthing our Hidden Wholeness – Funded by DVAS (16 CPD hrs)
Second Sight | Site, In Action – Solo performance, Chronic Collective, Pallas Projects
UnEarth, Close Contact – UnderCurrent, NorthWest and Dancer from the Dance Festival Tour
2020–2021
Magnetise – Dance Project (online, facilitated by Kate Wilson)
Mother – Solo Online Exhibition, Hambly & Hambly, Enniskillen, NI
Smashing Barriers Drama Collective – Digital Designer & Film Producer
2014–2019 (Highlights)
2018
'A Dream of Dying' Film directed by K O'Leary, 40 mins, Playwright Treasa Nealon, Actor Killian Glynn,
Play directed by Prin Duignan at The Glens Centre, Culture Night, Manorhamilton, Co. Leitrim. Ireland.
Altered Environments (Solo Exhibition, Residency, Leitrim Sculpture Centre.
We Borrow Freedom (Group, Hambly & Hambly).
Moveable Dimensions (Screening, World Culture Festival, Spain).
Residencies: Digital Artists Studios, Belfast (2016–2017)
2005–2013 (Selected)
Solo exhibitions including Open Book | Leabhar Oscailte, West Cork; Fifth Wheel Element Project, Pallas Projects, Dublin
Invited participating Artist in RHA 183rd Annual Exhibition.
The Peace Project (USA Tour).
Outside the Lines: Artists in the Wilderness symposium with the Arts Council & ADI.
SELECTED PROJECTS & FACILITATION
2006–2012 – Liminality: Different Views / Viewing Difference, Lead Artist & Project Director (Cross-Border Initiative with Women Making Waves & Women Independently Living in Leitrim).
Touring venues: Leitrim Sculpture Centre, Enniskillen, Derry, Belfast, London, and Sligo.
Work includes cross-disciplinary collaboration in performance, visual art, film, and inclusive arts engagement.
AWARDS & RESIDENCIES
2017–2016 – Residency Award Winner, Digital Arts Studios in association with the Arts & Disability Forum, Belfast
2016 – Artist in Residence, Leitrim Sculpture Centre
2015 – Bureau of Radical Accessibility Residency, The Model, Sligo
2013 – LOCIS European Residency (Ireland, Sweden, Poland)
2013–2010 – Leitrim County Council Artist Bursaries
2012–2010 – International Peace Project, USA
2011 – Co-Mentoring Program, Fire Station Artists’ Studios & ADI
2007 – Artist in the Community Award, Create / Arts Council Ireland.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Professional Affiliations: DADA, Disability Power Ireland, NeuroPride Ireland
Practice Themes: Inclusive and participatory arts, embodied performance, interdisciplinary collaboration, disability arts, and creative empowerment.
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