In conversation event between artist Amanda Jane Graham and Professor Emeritus Mary P. Corcoran

About the artist
 
Graham’s most recent solo exhibitions include the Whitaker Museum (UK, 2026), the Leitrim Sculpture Centre and the Royal Dublin Convention Centre (2024), Birr Castle and the Irish Architectural Archive (2023), Dock Arts Centre (2019), and the RHA in Dublin (2017). In 2025, her exhibition The Coiffured received support from Culture Ireland. She was awarded a Leitrim Art Award in 2023 and was also a finalist for the Sir John Soane Drawing Office Residency and the Business to Arts Best Creativity in the Workplace Award. Other awards include the Creative Ireland Creative Communities Economic Action Fund (2022), the Platform 31 Bursary (2021), the Spark Residency Award, the Arts Council of Ireland Bursary, and the Agility Award. Her work has been featured in RTÉ Arena, RTÉ Brainstorm, RTÉ Culture, News Talk’s Talking History, and the Irish Times.
 
About Mary P. Corcoran
 
Mary P. Corcoran is Professor Emeritus in Sociology at Maynooth University where she spent most of her academic career.  Her research and teaching interests lie primarily in the fields of urban sociology, food and sustainability, public cultures and the sociology of migration, areas in which she has published widely over the last four decades.  She is a graduate of Trinity College Dublin (1983), and of Columbia University, New York where she completed her doctorate in 1991. Mary has a long history of collaborating with civil society groups, community organisations, artists and arts practitioners to generate interdisciplinary perspectives on lived experience.  Mary currently serves as a Director on the Citizens Information Board; the all island Institute for Public Health and the Liberties Community Development Project.