Billy Lingwood is a Cork-based visual artist and arts worker with a BA in Fine Art: Printmaking & Contemporary Practice from LSAD. Their work explores post-colonial legacies in the Irish psyche and the social, cultural and policy impacts these continue to have on resident lifeforms. Rooted in printmaking, their practice often extends into curation, co-creation and intervention-based work.

In 2024, Billy was lead artist and project manager for Quilting the Rainbow, a Creative Ireland funded project celebrating over forty years of queer rights activism in Cork. That same year, they were awarded the Arts Council of Ireland’s Artist in the Community R&D Award (managed by Create) to develop a future co-creation project with members of Cork’s LGBTI+ community.

During the Triskel-Sample Project Space residency, Billy intends to further develop their practice within the field of co-creative arts participation. A key influence is the Art of Drag exhibition at De Hallen Haarlem (Netherlands), where the gallery supported a lead artist to establish a community group, run workshops in research and skills sharing and co-curate a multi-disciplinary exhibition with resources for hands-on public engagement. Drawing inspiration from this model, and following consultation with De Hallen’s participation office, Billy is exploring how such an approach can be reimagined within a Cork context.

The residency will bring together a professional artist and a group of non-professional collaborators to investigate alternative models of community-based art making. Workshops will combine research, archival investigation, skill sharing and making, with feedback gathered throughout the process informing a responsive curatorial approach. The project will conclude with an exhibition shaped both by the work itself and the specific site, supported by resources for public participation.