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.
 
Silk banners, silk scarves, UNFPA, Clifden Arts Festival, Textile designer.
Silk banners, UNFPA, silk scarves, Alice maher, isabel nolan, jahnavi Inness 
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
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.