From August to December 2025, I am Writer-in-Residence with Mirror Lamp Press and The Complex.

My first instalment has gone live on the Mirror Lamp Press website, links below.

As MLP x The Complex Writer in Residence, Jessica Foley is developing a series of interconnected texts that move between performance, reflection, and poetic experiment. Beginning with Draft I, her writing explores how personal, political, and imaginative worlds overlap, tracing the textures of everyday life alongside the exhibitions and events at The Complex. Drawing inspiration from Anne Carson’s Stacks, Foley’s residency unfolds as an open, process-based inquiry into how language, voice, and relation take form over time.

Draft I is a response to UNICEF: A QUESTION MARK HANGS OVER GAZA which took place 25 July – 12 August and Anna Doran’s Roots in Every Room, which took place from 06-08 September as part of Dublin Fringe Festival.

You can read Draft I here.

It was performed on 23 October at Studio 6, Temple Bar Gallery + Studio as part of the launch event of Issue 12. The performance text Jessica developed can be read here.

Thanks to Gwen Burlington, Eoghan McIntyre and Mark O’Gorman for their support, openness and willingness to experiment.

Subsequent Drafts are in development in response to the following exhibitions and events:

• Residues of the Garden of Eden by Joanne Reid and Ben Weir, curated by Debi Paul and Mark O’Gorman.
• Dissolutions ’25, Artist-in-Focus solo screening by Basma Al Sharif, curated by Diaa Lagan for aemi (artists experimental moving image).
• 21226827118 by Colm Keady-Tabbal, curated by Mark O’Gorman.