Bio
Dr. Martina Cleary is a lecturer, artist, writer and researcher based in the Dept. of Fine Art & Education at TUS and (PI) of the ADEPT Research Group. Her areas of research focus include; Neurodiversity in Art & Education, New Media & Immersive Technologies, Socially Engaged Arts & Activism. She holds a PhD from the European Centre for Photographic Research e(CPR), an MEd from Aalto University of Art, Design & Architecture, Helsinki, and an MA from the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts Helsinki. Over the past two decades her work has been presented in over eleven countries, supported by the Arts Councils of Ireland, Finland and Canada, CREATE Ireland, The National Forum for the Enhancement of Teaching & Learning Ireland, The Finnish Institute London, The Finnish Cultural Foundation and various regional Arts Offices both nationally and internationally. She has served on the Board of Directors of PhotoIreland and been an invited artist, consultant or lecturer for GMIT, The EU Urban Development Project Helsinki, Metropolia University of Applied Sciences, The School of Visual Arts Imatra, The Free Arts School of Helsinki, Cardiff School of Art & Design and Moore College of Art & Design Philadelphia.

Recent & forthcoming research dissemination:

Cleary, M. (2025) Taken by the Others, The Danger of Being Feral, Book chapter in Gone Feral: Unruly Women and the Undoing of Normative Femininity, Demeter Press, Ontario.
Cleary, M. (2025) The Re-Generative Potential of Myth in Re-Constituting the Missing Mother, paper for forthcoming conference Matricentric Feminisms, York University, Toronto.
Cleary, M. (2024) The Re-Generative Potential of Myth in Re-Constituting the Missing Mother, Book chapter in The Missing Mother, Demeter Press, Ontario. 
Cleary, M. (2024) Generative AI, Synthetic Memory and the Digital Re-Imaging of Past, Present and Future Ideas of Home, practitioner paper for the 2nd Symposium on Digital Art in Ireland, UCC.
Cleary, M. (2024) Practice-Based Research Methods for Doctoral Studies, paper for Reflecting on Decolonising Research and Development through an Indigenous and Feminist Lens, DSAI Summer School, TUS.
Cleary, M. (2023) Ritual Dream of The Shaman, Artist’s book chapter in Digital Art in Ireland, Ed. James O’Sullivan & Aoibhe McCarthy, Blackwell Publishing, Cork.
Cleary, M. (2023) Using Accessible VR for Interdisciplinary Teaching Learning and Collaboration, paper for the ILTA Ed Tech Conference, Dublin.
Cleary, M. (2023) The Well At The Bottom of The Sea, paper for the International Conference for the Association for the Study of Women and Mythology, New York.
Cleary, M. (2023) Defective Concrete Blocks in County Clare, paper presented to the PETI Committee of the European Parliament, during their fact-finding mission to Donegal.
Cleary, M. (2023-24) The Impact of Defective Concrete Blocks on Homeowners in County Clare, three presentations to the Oireachtas Joint Committee on Housing, Local Government and Heritage, based upon four year practice-based, community-engaged research project.