The Push and Pull – Katie Moor

Exhibition opens: Thursday 30 April, 6–8:30pm

Runs Thursday 30 April – Thursday 21 May

The Push and Pull brings together a series of works that reflect on motherhood through everyday moments of care, closeness, and connection. The work draws on time spent in the west of Ireland, where landscape and light shape a quiet, attentive way of looking and making. 

Working with tactile materials, these pieces focus on small, often unnoticed exchanges between parent and child; holding, waiting, watching, returning. The work moves between ideas of nature, the body, and memory, where motherhood is understood as something lived and changing over time. 

This exhibition invites a slower way of looking, and a space to consider what it means to nurture; to hold, and to be held.

Artist Bio

Katie Moore is a visual artist based in Co. Mayo. She graduated from GMIT Galway with an MA in Creative Practice in 2018, and previously completed a BA (First Class Honours) in Design in Textiles in 2015, where she was shortlisted for the RDS Student of the Year Award. 

Her work explores themes of motherhood, care, and connection through tactile, process-led making, often informed by everyday experience and the landscape of the west of Ireland. 

Moore is currently exhibiting in the 196th Annual Exhibition at the Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin. In 2025, she exhibited work at the Hunt Museum Limerick, Outset Gallery Galway, and the Royal Hibernian Academy Dublin, and a solo exhibition at Ballina Arts Centre. Moore created work for On Sight 2023 sculpture trail with an outdoor sculpture at the National Museum of Ireland. She was awarded the Emerging Irish Artist Residency Award 2018 at The Burren College of Art, and the Arts & Disability Connect New Work Award 2017, which resulted in a solo exhibition, Entropy, at the Linenhall Arts Centre, Castlebar.