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QUALIFICATIONS
Turps Correspondence Course 2023/24
MA Illustration & Animation, Kingston University, London. 2008
BA in Fine Art, Institute of Art, Design & Technology, Dún Laoghaire. 2004
SOLO EXHIBITIONS {hover for links}
2022 The Louvre of the Pebble, The Dock Art Centre, Carrick on Shannon, Leitrim
2019 The New Past, Triskel Arts Centre, Cork
2017 Small Pieces of Precarious Life, Dunamaise Arts Centre, Portlaoise
2013 Rara Avis, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin
2012 Something Thrown and Caught, Talbot Gallery, Dublin
Good Morning Mountain, The Drawing Project, IADT, Dun Laoghaire
2011 Forest Bathing, Roscommon Arts Centre
2009 Paradasaeidae, Monster Truck, Dublin
2004 Your Boyfriends, Signal Art Centre, Bray
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS {hover for links}
2020 – 2023
Remembrance: Ground Zero 360, The Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts, New York; Museum of Biblical Art, Dallas; Houston Baptist University, Texas
189th Annual Exhibition, RHA, Dublin
2019
Winter Open, RUA RED
Silver, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery
The Seán & Rosemarie Mulcahy Collection Bequest, Butler Gallery, Kilkenny
2018
Peripheries, Gorey School of Art, Wexford
Resort Revelations, Portrane, Dublin
Embodiment, bo.lee Gallery, London, curated by Ciara Gibbons
Encountering the Land, ARTWORKS 2018, VISUAL, Carlow, selected by Orla Barry, Sean Kissane & Emma Lucy O’Brien
188th Annual Exhibition, RHA, Dublin
Zoología Fantástica, Solstice Arts Centre, Navan, curated by Sabina Mac Mahon
2017
Winter Open, RUA RED, Dublin
187th Annual Exhibition, RHA – invited artist
2016
Winter Open, RUA RED, Dublin
ARTWORKS (Éigse), VISUAL, Carlow, selected by Annie Fletcher & Claire Feeley
Cabinet of Wonders, Linenhall Arts Centre, Mayo
Where The Wild Things Are, Molesworth Gallery, Dublin
186th Annual Exhibition, RHA
2015
185th Annual Exhibition, RHA
2014
Claremorris Open Exhibition (prize winner)
Boyle Arts Festival, visual arts exhibition, curated by Patrick Murphy
184th Annual Exhibition, RHA.
2013
40/40/40, State Collection touring exhibition,
Centro Cultural Conde Duque, Madrid;
Biblioteka Uniwersytecka, Warsaw;
Palazzo della Farnesina, Rome
Emerging Contemporary (3-person show), Hillsboro Fine Art, Dublin
2012
182nd Annual Exhibition, RHA.
2011
Featherweight Portable Museum, Ireland / Finland touring show:
Catalyst Arts, Belfast;
B- Galleria,Turku;
Gallery Rajatila, Tampere;
Oksasenkatu, Helsinki
180th Annual Exhibition, Royal Hibernian Academy
you remind me of a poem I can’t remember, to a tune that might never have existed,
in a place I’m not sure I’ve ever been to, Occupy Space, Limerick, curated by Davey Moor
2010
Claremorris Open Exhibition, Mayo, selected by Lisa le Feuvre
Something tells me it’s all happening at the zoo, Kevin Kavanagh, Dublin, curated by Davey Moor
180th Annual Exhibition, Royal Hibernian Academy
2009
179th RHA Annual Exhibition, Royal Hibernian Academy
2008
Winter Salon. Temple Bar Gallery & Studios, Dublin.
2007
The Big Store, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin, curated by Rayne Booth & Alan Butler
2006
Getting On Mother’s Nerves, Mother’s Tankstation, Dublin, curated by Finola Jones
Drawing is a Noun Drawing is a Verb, Stone Gallery, Dublin, curated by Cleo Fagan
PUBLIC WORKS:
Beachcomber Bank, Skerries South Strand, North Co. Dublin – public sculpture commissioned by Fingal Arts Office & Failte Ireland, 2022
COLLECTIONS:
AXA Insurance
Butler Gallery, Kilkenny, permanent collection
OPW State Art Collection
HSE Ireland
AWARDS & RESIDENCIES
2024 Heinrich Boll Residency, Achill
2023 Arts Council of Ireland Agility Award
2023 Jackson’s Art Painting Prize shortlist
2020 Interface Residency, Inagh Valley, Connemara, Co.Galway
Technical Developement Research Residency, Leitrim Sculpture Centre, Co.Leitrim
2017 Resort Residency (Fingal Arts Office), Lynders Mobile Home Park, Portrane
Thomas Dammann Jnr Memorial Trust Award
2016 Dublin School of Creative Arts Summer Studio Initiative, DIT Grangegorman
Cill Rialaig Artist’s Retreat, Ballinskelligs, Co. Kerry,
2014 Claremorris Open Exhibition Credit Union Painting Prize
Hellebou Artist residency, Notodden, Norway
Cill Rialaig Artist’s Retreat, Ballinskelligs, Co. Kerry,
2012 SÍM Residency, Reykjavík / Arts Council Travel and Training Award
2009 Artist in residence, Royal Hibernian Academy studios, Dublin
2008 Menfocsanak Art Camp, Hungary / Arts Council Travel and Training Award
2007 Iontas National Small Works Competition, Sligo Art Gallery – First Prize,
selected by Michael Dempsey
TALKS & LECTURES
2017 Limerick School of Art & Design – visiting lecturer
2016 The Page as an Object – workshop conceived & developed w/ artist Jason Deans for DIT (TUD) School of Creative Arts, Dublin
Visiting lecturer, DIT (TUD) School of Creative Arts, Dublin
2014 Royal Hibernian Academy, Revealing Artists lecture programme
2012 The Drawing Project, IADT Dun Laoghaire, visiting lecturer
Talbot Gallery & Studios, Artist talk & tour, Culture Night
BIBLIOGRAPHY
A Buyers Guide to Irish Art, Ashville Media Group, 2013
Helen Carey, 40/40/40. DFA/OPW, 2013
Roisin Russell. Review of Something Thrown & Caught, Paper Visual Art Journal, 2013
RHA 185th Annual Catalogue, 2015; RHA 182nd Annual Catalogue, 2012; RHA 181st Annual Catalogue, 2011.
Mother’s Annual ‘Getting on Mother’s Nerves – psychological drama and contemporary drawing’ Sarah Pierce. December 2006 Dogbowl&Bones