As a photographer my work aims to be a testament to life’s complexities, a reflection on the interconnectedness of all things, and an invitation to embrace the beauty of the everyday.

Jacqui Devenney Reed is a documentary photographer and filmmaker whose research-led practice examines the relationships between place, identity, and cultural memory. Rooted in the linguistic and environmental textures of her heritage, her work engages phenomenological approaches to portraiture and landscape, foregrounding the embodied and affective dimensions of lived experience.

Her practice spans digital and analogue methodologies. She is currently undertaking an Artlink & Street Level Photoworks Artist Exchange Residency in Glasgow, where she is working intensively with analogue image-making, including darkroom processing and hand-printing. This period of focused material experimentation deepens her engagement with duration, presence, and the tactile conditions of photographic practice.

Working within contexts of protest, rural community, and intergenerational exchange, Jacqui’s photographic and moving-image works emerge through sustained proximity and relational collaboration. Her approach sits between documentary and poetic expression, privileging atmosphere, gesture, and the quiet registers of the everyday.

Her current work-in-progress, The Lived Resistance: A Phenomenological Portrait of Protest in Contemporary Ireland, is being developed through an open-studio methodology. The project examines protest as a lived, relational, and embodied condition, rather than solely a public or political event.

Jacqui holds a Bachelor of Arts in Digital Film, Photography & Video, a Higher Certificate in Arts in Photography, and an NCTJ qualification in Professional Journalism.

When working with others, I tend to become so immersed in the story that people often forget I am even there. This allows me to create a more authentic visual story for viewers and enthusiasts alike. I use a mix of media and skills to visualise a passion or story that most people couldn’t begin to imagine.

Relevant Educational Qualifications

BA Degree Digital Film & Video / Higher Certificate in Photography and Arts

NCTJ in Professional Journalism



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Exhibitions to date

 

2024 “Cloch: Stone” . Aran Islands, Ireland

2024 What We Can Do August – Sept Curated by Lindsay Merlihan, 126 Gallery Galway – ArtLink Saldana Suite Dunree Donegal

2023 “Cloch: 돌: Stone” Jeju Island South Korea October

2023 “Cloch: 돌: Stone” Áras Éanna’s gallery Inish Oirr July/August

2023 “Cloch: 돌: Stone” Allingham Gallery Donegal June/ July

Irish Korean Stone Art Exchange is a unique collaboration between two islands situated a world apart. Photography exhibition of the stone walls of Ireland exhibited in

2022“Cloch: 돌: Stone” Irish Korean Stone Art Exchange is a unique collaboration between two islands situated a world apart. Photography exhibition of the stone walls of Ireland exhibited in Inis Oirr, Jamestown Castle Waterford and Donegal Castle.

2022 Stories of Change – 40 Environmental Portraits and 40 Filmed Interviews and Film footage currently being edited for a documentary – Exhibited in Co Kerry, Co Clare, Co Galway, Co Donegal.

Forgotten Places - Wild Swans Performance Art - RCC 2020https://regionalculturalcentre.com/forgottenplaces/

Drawn from Borders – 3D Virtual Gallery http://www.artlinkonline.ie/drawnfromborders/ 2020

When I was a Child” Regional Cultural Center, Letterkenny, Co Donegal 2019

B.A Graduation Show Regional Cultural Center, Lettwerkennt, Co Donegal 2019.

My short film "An Turas" shown@disappearherefilmfest 2019 - https://lnkd.in/gRm9FEJ

I am Donegal” Culture Night exhibition 2019

“The Outer Edge”Solo Exhibition Saldana Suite Dunree 2018 Visual journey from Donegal to Iceland

  • Inishowen Rural Arts 2014

  • Culture Night Letterkenny 2014

  • Cristeph Gallery 2014

  • Amazing Grace 2015

  • Artco Gallery 2015

  • Cristeph Gallery 2015

  • No Jury No Prize Artlink 2015

  • ArtLink Members Show 2016

  • Fort Dunree 2016

  • No Jury No Prize 2016

  • Wild Atlantic Way Artists Tour 2017 Abbey THEATER, Strabane

  • Derek Hill - Glebe Gallery 2017

  • ARTLINK Members Show @Manifold’ curated by Stephen Roach 126 Gallery 2017

  • ‘I am Donegal’ Cristeph Gallery, Letterkenny. Culture Night 2017

  • ARTLINK Members Show curated by 126 Gallery 2017

Since the 2007 "Edge Centring" project, Artlink have been forging creative connections with arts organisations and artists based in similar remote communities on the edge of the Atlantic, in both Iceland and Norway. As part of this initiative,fostering reciprocal inspiration and support, Donegal artist Jacqui Devenney Reed this year visited one of the participating organisations, Skriduklaustur based in East Iceland, as an artist in residence.