PhotoIreland announces Clodagh Assata Boyce and Jennifer Mehigan as the two recipients of the Library Fellowship 2026 at the International Centre for the Image, supported by the Arts Council of Ireland.
Clodagh Assata Boyce is a Trini-Irish anti-disciplinary artist and curator based in Dublin. Influenced by the radical traditions of Black feminist thought, their work is rooted in diasporic memory, the politics of care, and practices of refusal. Boyce’s practice is concerned with decolonial approaches to knowledge production and sharing. During their fellowship, Boyce is interested in publishing as a liberatory tool and as a mode of diasporic conversation, as well as the possibility and place of art books as preservation tools for unsung voices and works.
Jennifer Mehigan is an artist and researcher. Initially trained in graphic design, her work spans multiple disciplines, merging 3D modelling, sculpture, film-making, painting, scent, text, parties, floristry and flower farming. Mehigan regularly creates work in collaboration with Bassam Al-Sabah. Mehigan’s research at the PhotoIreland Collection will examine the concept of hermeneutical injustice within the context of the archive and distributions of knowledge. The research will ask how intermedial forms and self-publishing practices can reshape how knowledge is organised, shared, and understood beyond dominant systems.
PhotoIreland’s new fellowship programme invites two individuals to engage with and mediate the PhotoIreland Collection housed at the International Centre for the Image. The fellowship recipients receive a fee for their participation and benefit from access to the facilities as well as guidance from the PhotoIreland team. The recipients are requested to produce a public outcome upon completion of the fellowship, to be defined and developed in collaboration with the Centre’s curatorial team.
Image: Clodagh Assata Boyce and Jennifer Mehigan.
