Education
2019 - 2024 MFA Fine Art, Distinction, Goldsmiths University of London
2022- 2023 Painting Year II, The Essential School of Painting (ESOP) London
1995 - 1998 BA (Hons) Fashion Design, First Class, Central St Martins University of Arts London
1994 - 1995 Foundation Diploma Illustration & Design, Distinction, University of the Arts London
Selected Solo and Group Exhibitions
2026 Colony Room Club Archive, Colony Room Green, London
2026 Salon Of The Spectacle Everybody Lives Gallery, London
2026 Rose Lipman Was Here, Rose Lipman Building, London
2026 Interior Worlds Gallery46, Whitechapel, London
2025 Rags of Evidence Collaboration with Delaine Le Bas, Quench Gallery, Margate
2024 Summer Open Studios, British School at Rome
2024 Bloomberg New Contemporaries, NC Camden Art Center, London
2023 Bloomberg New Contemporaries Grundy, Blackpool
2023 MFA Masters of Fine Art Degree Show, Goldsmiths, London
2022 Black Gold and Green (Mobilise The Poets), CCADLD Centre for Contemporary Art, Derry
2021 Unbound, Goldsmiths, London
2021 Access, Deptford X, London
2019 Drawing Out, Damer House, Roscrea, Ireland
2019 Gavin Turk: Portrait of an Egg, Somerset House, London
2018 Saoirse 68 Solo Show Red Gallery London
2012 Unfair Paris By The Pricking Of My Thumbs, Lebenson Gallery, Paris
2012 This is William Blanchard, The Strand Gallery, London
2010 Object Culture – Art as Viral Commodity, Red Gallery London
2006 The Wrong Gallery, Collaboration with Noble & Webster, Tate Modern, London
Selected Performances
2026 The Return, Limelight, Belfast
2026 Salon Of The Spectacle Donlon Books, London
2026 Up The Beanstalk, Silent Spring 1 & 2, NTS Radio, London
2024 Céad Míle Fáilte Abhaile Ultach Mór, Rome to Rathmullan to Mayogall AOH Hall, Donegal & Derry
2024 Mobilise The Poets (Céad Míle Fáilte Ultach Mór) British School at Rome
2023 Art as Resistance, Sunflower, Belfast
2023 Poetry as Commemoration, Irish Literary Society, Fitzrovia Chapel, London
2023 MFA Masters of Fine Art Degree Show, Goldsmiths, London
2018 Trouble Songs with Stuart Bailie, Boogaloo Radio, London
2018 Dr Who is NOKI, The Subculture Archives, Carnaby Street London
2016 Sylvia Plath Fan Club, Arts Club East, London
2002 Future Rock And Roll, ICA London
Film & Music
2006 Rockumentary Britannia ICA London, Eastend Film Festival, Portobello Film Festival
2005 F*ck The Police Raindance Film Festival London
2003 Sid Vicious Is Dead (Ed Laliq Mix), Rough Trade Shops Counter Culture 3, Mute 2003
2002 SomeProduct Live at ICA collaboration with Tim Noble and Sue Webster
2002 Sid Vicious Is Dead, Sonic Mook Experiment 2: Future Rock & Roll, Blast First, Mute 2002
Selected Curatorial and Events
2026 Salon Of The Spectacle , Everybody Lives Gallery & Rose Lipman Building , London
2026 Rose Lipman was Here, Official Opening Event & Exhibition, Hackney Art Week, London
2024 Mobilise The Poets, Readings at The Boogaloo, London.
2015 Inside Outside Underground, Red Gallery, London
2013 Shirt Futures, Central Saint Martins at Derry City of Culture Shirt Factory Project, Derry
2002 Protest Against The Rising Tide of Conformity, Shoreditch, London
1995-98 AlcoHoL , Charlie Wrights International Bar, Hoxton, London
Selected Publications
2026 McCloy,A.,& Participating Artists, Salon Of The Spectacle, Ab Ovo Magica, London
2024 McCloy, A., Mobilise The Poets, Ab Ovo Magica, London
2024 McCloy, A., Pink Pussycat, Ab Ovo Magica, London
2024 McCloy, A., H is For Heroine, Ab Ovo Magica, London
2019 Blackman, Cally: Fashion Central Saint Martins, p 91., Thames and Hudson.
2018 Sketchsesh ID The Radical Issue Spring ‘18. pp. 110-116
2016 Sister Anne, Cold Lips
2016 H is For Heroine, Beat Magazine
Selected Press
2026 Artist Producer Hackney Art Week FAD Magazine
2001 - 2011
Residencies
2024 Ampersand Foundation Fellowship, British School at Rome
2024 Directors Award, Tyrone Guthrie Center Annaghmakerrig, Monaghan, Ireland
2023 Array Collective, The Happy-Sad-Sack Storytelling and Collaborative Practice, CAMP, France
2022 CCA Derry DLD, Digital Residency
2022 Tyrone Guthrie Center, Annaghmakerrig, Monaghan, Ireland
2013 Shirt Factory Project, Studio Residency, Derry
Teaching and Artist Talks
2026 Jamie Reid Archive In Conversation with Stephen Ellcock & John Marchant, Strongrooms, London
2024 New Contemporaries Workshops, Camden Art Center, London
2023 Salon London Artist Talk, Goldsmiths, London
2000-2020 Associate & Senior Lecturer, Central Saint Martins University of Arts London
Awards and Grants
2025 FaighAmach (Discover): Temple Bar Gallery Dublin, Culture Ireland, Southwark Park Galleries, London : Shortlist
2024 Ampersand Foundation Fellowship, British School at Rome
2024 Directors Award : Tyrone Guthrie Centre Annaghmakerrig, Monaghan, Ireland
2023 New Contemporaries, Selection and Exhibition
2023 Array Collective Collaboration, CAMP Open Grant, Fuse Arts Space Bradford
2022 Individual ER Programme, Arts Council Grant
2021 Irish Writers Center, Arts Council Northern Ireland Course Bursary
2019-2023 Goldsmiths, Excellence Fee Waiver
1998 Colin Barnes Award for Illustration, Central Saint Martins
1983 Aithriseoirecht/Scealaíocht (Recitation/Storytelling), South Derry Champion: Scór na nÓg
2019 - 2024 MFA Fine Art, Distinction, Goldsmiths University of London
2022- 2023 Painting Year II, The Essential School of Painting (ESOP) London
1995 - 1998 BA (Hons) Fashion Design, First Class, Central St Martins University of Arts London
1994 - 1995 Foundation Diploma Illustration & Design, Distinction, University of the Arts London
Selected Solo and Group Exhibitions
2026 Colony Room Club Archive, Colony Room Green, London
2026 Salon Of The Spectacle Everybody Lives Gallery, London
2026 Rose Lipman Was Here, Rose Lipman Building, London
2026 Interior Worlds Gallery46, Whitechapel, London
2025 Rags of Evidence Collaboration with Delaine Le Bas, Quench Gallery, Margate
2024 Summer Open Studios, British School at Rome
2024 Bloomberg New Contemporaries, NC Camden Art Center, London
2023 Bloomberg New Contemporaries Grundy, Blackpool
2023 MFA Masters of Fine Art Degree Show, Goldsmiths, London
2022 Black Gold and Green (Mobilise The Poets), CCADLD Centre for Contemporary Art, Derry
2021 Unbound, Goldsmiths, London
2021 Access, Deptford X, London
2019 Drawing Out, Damer House, Roscrea, Ireland
2019 Gavin Turk: Portrait of an Egg, Somerset House, London
2018 Saoirse 68 Solo Show Red Gallery London
2012 Unfair Paris By The Pricking Of My Thumbs, Lebenson Gallery, Paris
2012 This is William Blanchard, The Strand Gallery, London
2010 Object Culture – Art as Viral Commodity, Red Gallery London
2006 The Wrong Gallery, Collaboration with Noble & Webster, Tate Modern, London
Selected Performances
2026 The Return, Limelight, Belfast
2026 Salon Of The Spectacle Donlon Books, London
2026 Up The Beanstalk, Silent Spring 1 & 2, NTS Radio, London
2024 Céad Míle Fáilte Abhaile Ultach Mór, Rome to Rathmullan to Mayogall AOH Hall, Donegal & Derry
2024 Mobilise The Poets (Céad Míle Fáilte Ultach Mór) British School at Rome
2023 Art as Resistance, Sunflower, Belfast
2023 Poetry as Commemoration, Irish Literary Society, Fitzrovia Chapel, London
2023 MFA Masters of Fine Art Degree Show, Goldsmiths, London
2018 Trouble Songs with Stuart Bailie, Boogaloo Radio, London
2018 Dr Who is NOKI, The Subculture Archives, Carnaby Street London
2016 Sylvia Plath Fan Club, Arts Club East, London
2002 Future Rock And Roll, ICA London
Film & Music
2006 Rockumentary Britannia ICA London, Eastend Film Festival, Portobello Film Festival
2005 F*ck The Police Raindance Film Festival London
2003 Sid Vicious Is Dead (Ed Laliq Mix), Rough Trade Shops Counter Culture 3, Mute 2003
2002 SomeProduct Live at ICA collaboration with Tim Noble and Sue Webster
2002 Sid Vicious Is Dead, Sonic Mook Experiment 2: Future Rock & Roll, Blast First, Mute 2002
Selected Curatorial and Events
2026 Salon Of The Spectacle , Everybody Lives Gallery & Rose Lipman Building , London
2026 Rose Lipman was Here, Official Opening Event & Exhibition, Hackney Art Week, London
2024 Mobilise The Poets, Readings at The Boogaloo, London.
2015 Inside Outside Underground, Red Gallery, London
2013 Shirt Futures, Central Saint Martins at Derry City of Culture Shirt Factory Project, Derry
2002 Protest Against The Rising Tide of Conformity, Shoreditch, London
1995-98 AlcoHoL , Charlie Wrights International Bar, Hoxton, London
Selected Publications
2026 McCloy,A.,& Participating Artists, Salon Of The Spectacle, Ab Ovo Magica, London
2024 McCloy, A., Mobilise The Poets, Ab Ovo Magica, London
2024 McCloy, A., Pink Pussycat, Ab Ovo Magica, London
2024 McCloy, A., H is For Heroine, Ab Ovo Magica, London
2019 Blackman, Cally: Fashion Central Saint Martins, p 91., Thames and Hudson.
2018 Sketchsesh ID The Radical Issue Spring ‘18. pp. 110-116
2016 Sister Anne, Cold Lips
2016 H is For Heroine, Beat Magazine
Selected Press
2026 Artist Producer Hackney Art Week FAD Magazine
2001 - 2011
Residencies
2024 Ampersand Foundation Fellowship, British School at Rome
2024 Directors Award, Tyrone Guthrie Center Annaghmakerrig, Monaghan, Ireland
2023 Array Collective, The Happy-Sad-Sack Storytelling and Collaborative Practice, CAMP, France
2022 CCA Derry DLD, Digital Residency
2022 Tyrone Guthrie Center, Annaghmakerrig, Monaghan, Ireland
2013 Shirt Factory Project, Studio Residency, Derry
Teaching and Artist Talks
2026 Jamie Reid Archive In Conversation with Stephen Ellcock & John Marchant, Strongrooms, London
2024 New Contemporaries Workshops, Camden Art Center, London
2023 Salon London Artist Talk, Goldsmiths, London
2000-2020 Associate & Senior Lecturer, Central Saint Martins University of Arts London
Awards and Grants
2025 FaighAmach (Discover): Temple Bar Gallery Dublin, Culture Ireland, Southwark Park Galleries, London : Shortlist
2024 Ampersand Foundation Fellowship, British School at Rome
2024 Directors Award : Tyrone Guthrie Centre Annaghmakerrig, Monaghan, Ireland
2023 New Contemporaries, Selection and Exhibition
2023 Array Collective Collaboration, CAMP Open Grant, Fuse Arts Space Bradford
2022 Individual ER Programme, Arts Council Grant
2021 Irish Writers Center, Arts Council Northern Ireland Course Bursary
2019-2023 Goldsmiths, Excellence Fee Waiver
1998 Colin Barnes Award for Illustration, Central Saint Martins
1983 Aithriseoirecht/Scealaíocht (Recitation/Storytelling), South Derry Champion: Scór na nÓg