Lonely Daddy (b. Dublin, 1974) received a BA in Fine Art from the University of Ulster, Belfast (1997), an MA in European Fine Art from Winchester School of Art (2001), and was awarded a Fellowship in Fine Art at The British School at Rome (2007-2008)

Their practice is multidisciplinary, encompassing performance, video, song, writing, sculpture, drawing, collage, mask and costume. Their work deals with themes of loss, magic, and transformation, staging the self as hallucinatory cabaret.

They have been nominated for several international awards including; Live Works Performance Act Award, Centrale Fies/Viafarini Milan, and the MAC International Prize, MAC, Belfast.

Other notable performances and screenings include: New Work from Northern Ireland, MAC, Belfast (2018), Belfast Film Festival (2016), FIX 15 International Biennial of Live Art, Catalyst Arts, Belfast (2015), Pallas Periodical Review, Pallas Projects, Dublin (2015), Voices Travel, Kaohsiung Museum of Fine Art, Taiwan (2014), Experimentica 13, Chapter Arts, Cardiff (2013), Memory Theatre, Vancouver Film School, Vancouver (2013), Palace of The Biscuit Tin, CCA, Derry (2012), Kunstfilmtag, Theatersaal des Künstlerverein Malkasten, Dusseldorf (2012).

They are the recipient of numerous awards, including Bursary Awards from The Arts Council of Ireland, and an AHRC Full Scholarship for Postgraduate study. Their work is part of several collections, including that of The National University of Ireland, and The Arts Council of Northern Ireland Permanent Collection.

Lonely Daddy established School for Girls, a theatre space/cabaret/club set inside their living space in Rome. In 2017, they founded Radical Palm Records, a record label and platform dedicated to recording projects by artists. Lonely Daddy also composes and records music. Releases include the LPs Brón Improv (2024), Lonely Daddy I (2024), Song as Fictional Space (2017), and the EPsThe Wizards Slept and Luxury Yacht (2021).

Lonely Daddy is a previous Director of Catalyst Arts, Belfast, and has written critical reviews for publications including CIRCA, The Vacuum, and Arts West. They have acted as a Visiting Lecturer on B.A. and M.F.A. courses at numerous institutions in the U.K. and Ireland, including University of Ulster, Sligo Institute of Technology, Crawford College of Art and Design, Chelsea College of Arts, and Byam Shaw School of Art.