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Kate O'Shea, Enya Moore

Quick Response Artists-in-Residence

Quick Response Artists-in-Residence

During their Quick Response residency, Kate O’Shea and Enya Moore will build on their collaboration around The Wild Goose (1867), a handwritten newspaper created by Irish political prisoners aboard the Hougoumont as it sailed from Portsmouth to Walyalup/Fremantle. The artists explore how cultural practices such as print, song and spoken word can forge solidarity across oceans and histories of colonisation. They will extend this research by engaging with the Western Australian State Archives to consider how creative practice can generate solidarity across distance and time. This residency forms part of their wider dialogue linking projects in Ireland and Australia, including A Collection of Ocean Waifs (TULCA Festival of Visual Arts, 2025), an audiowork they created with Ron Bradfield Jnr, a Bard and Jawi saltwater man, and Padraig Stevens that revisits The Wild Goose through sound and storytelling.   

About the artist

Kate O’Shea and Enya Moore are a collaborative duo whose enduring artistic and research partnership spans decades. Their shared practice explores networks of solidarity, cultural ecosystems and anti-colonial histories through printmaking, publishing, design and collective inquiry. Kate, usually based in Cork, Ireland, undertook an artist residency exchange between Fremantle Arts Centre and the Irish Museum of Modern Art (March–August 2025), culminating in the exhibition JUMP CUTS at the Moores Building Art Space in Walyalup/Fremantle. Her creative practice includes printmaking, publishing under Durty Books and Gravity Express (with Vagabond Reviews). Enya, based on Gadigal Country (Sydney, Australia), is a researcher, educator and writer, and Lecturer in Design at the School of Architecture, Design and Planning, University of Sydney, where Kate has collaborated with her in the Masters in Design program. In 2025, Enya was awarded a Visiting Fellowship at the State Library of New South Wales for her project The Wild Goose (1867): A Handwritten Newspaper of Creativity and Care at Sea. Together, they are presenting A Collection of Ocean Waifs at the TULCA Festival of Visual Arts, an audio collaboration with Ron Bradfield Jnr, a Bard and Jawi Saltwater man, and Padraig Stevens from the west coast of Ireland, that revisits The Wild Goose (1867) through sound and storytelling. Their recent collaborative projects include Social Space (Broken Fields Collective, Irish Museum of Modern Art, 2023), Art, What Is It Good For? (South Tipperary Arts Centre, 2023), and Broken Fields Micro Exhibition (46 Grand Parade, Cork, 2023). In 2020, they co-developed Networks of Solidarity, a four-part online series bridging Gadigal Country and Dublin 8.


Supporters

PICA’s Studio Program is supported by PICA’s Art Ambassadors.