Joey O’Gorman creates work across drawing, sculpture, audio, video, and installation to explore different ways of understanding vital interconnections. Through improvisational processes, he engages experientially with more-than-human relationships, employing speculative modes of enquiry to examine how individuals, communities, and ecosystems co-create one another.
ARTIST BIO
Joey O’Gorman studied Biology before working as a postdoctoral research scientist at Oxford University, later moving into the field of art and science, where he developed seminars and workshops in collaboration with collections and archives at Central Saint Martins and University College London. After moving to Belfast he worked as a co-director at Catalyst Arts (2015-2017), and gained an MFA (2018) and PhD (2025) in Fine Art at the Belfast School of Art. Recently he has worked with the Leitrim Sculpture Centre in Ireland (2022), PS2 in Belfast (2024), Jatiwangi Art Factory in Indonesia (2025) and Void Art Centre in Derry (2026).
Above: Dead Hedge 2, Joey O'Gorman, 2026, Risograph print on Green Stationary card (150gsm, Recycled Pale Grey), 42cm (h) x 30cm (w), edition of 20.
Top left: Peripheral Visions PS2 install shot, Joey O'Gorman, 2024, Ps2, Belfast
His research invites audiences to consider alternative modes of co-creation and imagine new approaches to world-building. He is currently experimenting with ecological interventions for non-human audiences alongside the continued development of his drawing methodology.
Peripheral Visions PS2 install shot, Joey O'Gorman, 2024, Ps2, Belfast
Dead Hedge Drawings at Peas Park, North Belfast, 2024.
His practice brings together information about how we might live more regenerative and ecologically aware lives, mapping connections across disciplines and drawing attention to transformative knowledge and practices that respond to pressing social and environmental issues.
Dead Hedge 1 + 4, Joey O'Gorman, 2026, Risograph print on Green Stationary card (150gsm, Recycled Pale Grey), 42cm (h) x 30cm (w), edition of 20 of each.
His new prints emerge from a collaboration with Peas Park, where years of building dead hedges inform drawings responding to human and non-human activity. Developed through slow, accumulative processes, the work explores interspecies relationships and ecological intervention through drawing practice.
Peripheral Visions PS2 install shot, Joey O'Gorman, 2024, Ps2, Belfast
TITLE
Dead Hedge 10
ARTIST
Joey O'Gorman
ABOUT THE WORK
These prints are drawings created through his ongoing collaboration with users and organisers at Peas Park, an outdoor community project and garden near The Living House. For several years, he has been building dead hedges that provide habitat and shelter for the park’s non-human inhabitants, while also functioning as structures that organise the space and create boundaries. The drawings, developed as part of this embodied, multidisciplinary, and interspecies sculptural practice, respond to the movements and activities of those who use the site. Constructed over time through a process that parallels the making of the hedges, they reflect the slow, accumulative nature of the work. He is currently experimenting with ecological interventions for non-human audiences alongside the continued development of his drawing methodology.
Work comes unframed
DATE
2026
DIMENSIONS
30cm (h) x 42cm (w)
MEDIUM
Risograph print on Favini paper (120gsm, Shiro Alga Carta)
ORIGINAL WORK / EDITION
20
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Joey O’Gorman creates work across drawing, sculpture, audio, video, and installation to explore different ways of understanding vital interconnections. Through improvisational processes, he engages experientially with more-than-human relationships, employing speculative modes of enquiry to examine how individuals, communities, and ecosystems co-create one another.
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