After loving and leaving art at school, Ariel began drawing again in 1988, focussing initially on vibrant abstract artworks using soft and oil pastels. She later moved into facepainting and peformance art after arriving in Ireland in 2001 and moved onto studying Celtic artwork and the human form in 2004.

Since learning Irish more than 12 years ago and moving to Ireland permanently from Sydney in 2000, Ariel has also contributed much to Irish-language activity, including jointly co-ordinating speed-dating sessions and workshops as Gaeilge in African drumming, yoga, belly-dancing and circus skills for the Dublin St Patrick’s Festival Irish language events, as well as a scheme of circus skills workshops in Irish in schools around Dublin and Ireland in conjunction with DTE Inc.

Having also worked in Irish-language radio broadcasting previously in Sydney, Belfast and Dublin, her work as founder of iMeasc, a voluntary network of Irish-speaking immigrants, resulted in the Aisling/TG4 Award for Outstanding Services to Irish in 2006.

Ariel has been a stiltwalking performer since 2001 at festivals and events all over Dublin and Ireland, and has also been the Snow Queen at Dublin’s Christmas Tree-lighting festival for the last three years as well as the face of the Dublin St Patrick’s Festival, on buses all over Dublin in 2007.

In late 2007, Ariel set up Prometheus, a fire performance troupe, who performed their first choreographed show at the Unfringed Festival in Limerick in February 2008. Ariel also developed a troupe of stiltwalking performers, Na Fomhóraigh, with the grant support of Ealaín na Gaeltachta/Údarás na Gaeltachta/na Comhairle Ealaíne, which has performed at festivals around Ireland since May 2008. She set up Independent State of Happiness as a comedic street theatre troupe, who performed their first act, Slapstick Soldiers, at the World Street Performance Championships in June 2008.

Ariel is currently assisting mask workshops at the Ark as a volunteer and will be studying at the National College of Art and Design (NCAD) for the Post-Graduate Diploma in Community Arts Education during 2008-2009.