Tuesday, May 5, 2026 at 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM
18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica
**Intersection with Deirdre Mulrooney** Tuesday, May 5th | 5PM - 7PM 18th Street Arts Center 1639 18th Street. Santa Monica, CA 90404 **Free + Open to the Public** These gatherings are dedicated to gathering our community around good food, conversation, and art. Please stop by for a bite and chat with our community and spotlight artist Deirdre Mulrooney. Artist bio Artist portrait by Neil Hoare. Dee Mulrooney is a multidisciplinary artist whose work spans painting, drawing, film, storytelling, and performance. Rooted in her working-class Irish experience, Mulrooney’s practice explores identity, class, exile, displacement, and the realities of inhabiting a female body. Her work confronts hard truths, abuse, and loss, treating art as a space for transformation, reckoning, and reclamation. Through visual and performative language, Mulrooney examines how personal and collective histories are carried, suppressed, or reimagined. Her projects often centre on underrepresented female perspectives, questioning inherited narratives, and opening space for voices that have been overlooked or silenced. Her performance alter-ego, Growler, an 85-year-old vulva, trickster, and social commentator, is a constant pilgrim with no fixed destination. She navigates themes of sexuality, religion, and violence with candour and dark humour. Growler earned Mulrooney the Lustrum Award at the 2023 Edinburgh Fringe for “Most Unforgettable Performance.” This residency is generously sponsored by a partnership between 18th Street Arts Center and Contemporary Irish Arts Center Los Angeles.