Exhibition: The patient will see you now by Áine O’Hara

The patient will see you now is an interactive installation and one-to-one performance work. Focusing on the inadequacies and farcical nature of accessing healthcare in Ireland, the work questions and exposes bureaucracies that oppress those who fall outside certain definitions of ‘normal,’ ‘valuable’, and ‘productive’.

Áine’s work experiments with form, and focuses on connection, conversation, and care. Their long term ambitions include demanding adequate access to theatre and the arts for disabled and marginalised communities through the creation of large scale, ambitious work as well as the continuation of community building projects like Chronic Chats; a creative and social group for chronically ill people which grew from their research as part of her artist residency.

The patient will see you now is kindly supported by The Arts Council of Ireland’s Art Grant Funding 2020.

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Áine O’Hara (b.1991, Mayo, IRL) is an award winning visual artist and theatre-maker creating exciting and vulnerable work for and about people who are often left out of traditional art and theatre spaces. She is currently at a pivotal stage in her career as they reimagine how they create work following her diagnosis with fibromyalgia. O’Hara is a graduate of MFA Design at The Lir Trinity College Dublin and the Institute of Art and Design, Dun Laoghaire.

Áine the recipient of the We Only Want the Earth’s Project Award in partnership with Fire Station Artists’ Studio, Dublin Central Housing Action and consulting artist Kerry Guinan.