Tanya de Paor is an artist, researcher and educator. Her research interests include contemporary art practice, eco-art pedagogy, socially engaged and relational practice, art and activism and creative education to reimagine an ecological and socially just future.
Tanya de Paor
Education
PhD Burren College of Art, and University of Ireland, Galway, 2022
Planetary Stewart, Planetary Boundaries and Human Opportunities, Stockholm Resilience Centre, (Cert). 2015
Visual Thinking Strategies, Practicum, Reade Centre, Amsterdam, 2013
MA Belfast College of Art, University of Ulster 1996
National Dip. Design, Textiles (Distinction) Galway Mayo Institute of Technology, 1991
Teaching and Coordination
Lecturer, Visual Art Education, MIC University of Limerick, 1998 –
MIC and Arts Council Residency Programme. Visual artist Maeve Clancy (2017-2018)
MIC and Arts Council Residency Programme. Visual artist Maeve Clancy (2018 – 2019)
MIC and Arts Council Residency Programme. Visual artist Maeve Clancy (2019 -2020)
Workshops and exhibition of work, Arts Day MIC, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2023.
Coordination of the exhibition, Consumption: Considering Resources and Waste, by Prof. Ingrid Hess. 2019 (MIC)
Coordination of guest lecture and workshop with Dr Laura Donkers and Visual Art Elective students; ecological art practice, strategic community engagement and behaviour-change projects to transform public perception of ecology, sustainability and climate change.
Coordination of Exhibition and facilitation of guest lecture series Designing for Children and Privilege in Education, with Prof. Hess, 2017, MIC.
MIC Representative at Higher Education Institutions of Art, Design and Music as future “European Universities”? Innovative cooperation formats and thematic bridges
Potsdam Berlin, DAAD, 2019
Recent Conference Presentations and Symposium
Anticipation Conference 2024, University of Lancaster (Forthcoming)
Ómós Áite: Liberating the Imagination: The Importance of the Irish Language and Culture in Climate Action: Webinar Series Supporting Community Learning & Action for the Environment, 2024.
The Arts in Education Portal Annual Conference, Guest Speaker, Hidden Voices, 2023.
Conference of International Geographers (CIG) Anthropocene 1, 2021.
ZoomOut, PhD. Symposium (online) March 2021.
Association of Independent Colleges of Art and Design (AICAD) Seminar (online),Theme: Why we can’t stop thinking about the future, February 2020. Presentation title: Navigational Charts and Multispecies Networks.
TransCultural Exchange International Opportunities in the Arts: Exploring New Horizons, Québec, 2017.
MARE International Conference. People and the Sea IX, Dealing with Maritime Mobilities: Social Relations and Culture, Co-presented a paper with Dr Mike Fitzpatrick in 2017 and exhibited lens-based media and short film, Stones as Anchors.
Guest Speaker, Thematic PhD in Inclusive Design and Creative Technologies seminar SMARTlab UCD, Innovation Academy, O Brien Centre for Science, 2016, Trans-Cultural Conference, Opportunities in the Arts, Expanding Worlds, Boston University, 2016.
Professional Practice and Workshops
The River Room educational art space, Glucksman Gallery, UCC Cork.
Intergenerational creative workshop 1. 2018
Intergenerational creative workshop 2. 2019
Intergenerational creative workshop 3. 2019
Facilitation of participant-led workshop, The Granny Room, Cork 2019.
Practice-based art workshop with first and second class, Ballyvaughan National School, Co. Clare, exploring creative strategies to imagine an ecological and sustainable future, 2022
Recent Publications
Fables for a Reconstruction: A Toolkit to Imagine a Symbiocene, PhD Thesis 2022.
Fables for a Reconstruction: The First Exercise Book to Imagine the Symbiocene, Badly Made Books, Cork, 2022.
Teaching Climate Change in Primary School: An Interdisciplinary Approach. Dolan, A (ed) 2021 (peer-reviewed). Book Chapter: The Grow Room: An Artistic Response to Climate Change Education, Routledge, London & New York.
International Opportunities in the Arts, Exploring New Horizons. Sherman, M. (ed) 2019 (peer-reviewed). Book Chapter. Between Three Worlds: Exploring New Horizons in the Anthropocene. Series in Art, Vernon Press.
Selected Exhibitions
Fabling the Future Together; Earth Rising Festival, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, 2023.
Fables for a Reconstruction, PhD Research Exhibition, Burren College of Art, 2022.
ZOOM Out, Spinning a Yarn; A Tale of Undoing, loosening, disentangling, untying, unknotting, untangling, unpicking and unstitching, 2021.
A Sisyphean Task, National University of Ireland Galway, 2020; 2021.
From Anthropocene to Symbiocene, Burren College of Art, 2020.
Ex-Post Facto, X-PO, Kilnaboy Co. Clare, 2019.
We are the Flock, Fem-Fest, MIC, University of Limerick, 2019.
We are the Flock, Burren College of Art, Interim Ph.D. Research Exhibition, 2019.
Strange Bedfellows, Burren College of Art, 2018.
Stones as Anchors, Video Installation, University of Amsterdam, 2017.
Interfaces, Burren College of Art, 2017.
Professional Memberships and Committees
Visual Artist Ireland (VAI)
Children’s Research Network for Ireland and Northern Ireland (CRNINI)
National Sculpture Factory (NSF)
Environmental and Sustainability Committee, MIC, 2023 – present
