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Seoidín O’Sullivan is an artist, arts educator, and interdisciplinary researcher. She has a MA in Fine Art Media from NCAD, and is Art Lecturer on NCAD’s MA Art in the Contemporary World. Seoidín’s projects are collaborative and focus on people joining together in action to protect and develop an aspect of their local commons. Her creative and collaborative practices explore sustainable models within urban ecological contexts to addresses issues of land use, lost knowledge, social justice and biodiversity. She was awarded the Next Generation Arts Council Bursary in 2018, and the Chicago Hyde Park Residency Award with IMMA and CREATE in 2017. Through a Citizen Artist award with Common Ground, in 2018-20,Seoidín  has grafted fruit trees and worked with local groups  in Dublin 8 on a shared project of establishing future  community orchards through Hard/Graft. Building  upon this collaboration, Seoidin and Common Ground are partnering UCD’s School of Geography in Mapping Green Dublin (2019-21), an action project funded by the Environmental Protection Agency to map the territories of trees and green space across Dublin 8 by identifying their location, local identity and future creation.