Conneely's artist practice is where her material research is conceived and led — from curating international commissions to growing textiles from living bacterial cellulose. Current work is developed through the Dublin City Arts Office Incubation Space Award 2026, held at The Lab, Dublin, extending a body of research grounded in entanglement, myth, and material as collaborator rather than substance.
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HAIL THEE: We Come in Reveries of Change
UNFPA, 2022
Conceiver & Curator
Conceived and curated a project commissioned by the United Nations Population Fund in support of global standards for social justice and reproductive rights, convening an international cohort of artists Alice Maher, Isabel Nolan, Jesse Jones, Jahnavi Inniss, Hina Khan, Paula McGloin, Delarosa de la Cruz, Alannah Davey, Rachel Fallon, and anthropologist Sara O'Rourke, and collaborating directly with the artists on the project's banners. The project was selected as a keynote event for Design Week 2023, with an accompanying symposium featuring Annie Fletcher (Director, IMMA) and Emma Dabiri, among others.
Art exhibition with various artworks displayed on stands inside a brick-walled gallery with large arched windows and exposed beams ceiling.
Indoor space with large windows, red and colorful artwork on display, and shadows on concrete floor.
Colorful abstract artwork hanging in a gallery, with a brick wall background and large window, and an orange display panel on the right.
Exhibition space with brick walls, large windows, hanging banners, and some wall-mounted equipment. Sunlight creates patterns on the concrete floor.
A panel of five women seated on stage at Irish Design Week, with an audience in front. The stage backdrop features colorful banners and artworks, including geometric patterns and celestial motifs. The event appears to be a discussion or presentation in a well-lit art gallery or conference room. 
Irish Design Week 2023.
The Living Shroud 
The Lab, Dublin, 2026–ongoing
Conneely's ongoing research into living bacterial cellulose (SCOBY) — developed in dialogue with Donna Haraway's writing on sympoiesis and multispecies collaboration — is currently being extended in collaboration with artist Barbara Knezevic, treating material not as substance to be shaped, but as a co-participant in its own making. Supported by the Dublin City Arts Office Incubation Space Award 2026
Close-up of dried, translucent bacterial cellulose with prominent veins.
An art installation featuring large, suspended, light-colored organic shapes that resemble fleshy, translucent forms, supported by several rusted, metal rebar rods arranged in a radial pattern. The background shows a white wall with some abstract wire sculptures hanging and a shelf mounted on the wall.
Sculpture made from bacterial cellulose, bio-textiles, textile designer 
The Shuttle Hive: A Century of Rising Thread
National Museum of Ireland, 2016
Lead Commissioned Artist, Curator & Designer
Selected by the National Museum of Decorative Arts and History as the artist to mark the centenary of the 1916 Rising, leading a major project spanning exhibition, workshops, and the conference Mise Éire? Shaping a Nation through Design. Working with a multidisciplinary team including a composer, anthropologist, historian, silversmith, and weaver, the project examined Irish women's roles in the struggle for independence through the lens of revolt, myth, and national identity.
Group of women sitting closely together, some leaning on each other in a somber mood.