EXHIBITIONS

1994 -             Co-founder Area 4 Art Studios, Sligo

1993 - Established studio in Sligo, Ireland

1993               First class honours degree in sculpture

1989-1993      Accademia Albertina di Belle Arti, Turin, Italy

1988-1989      Freie Kunstakademie Nürtingen, Germany 

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

“Ancestors” - Site-responsive sculpture installations on Oyster Island, Co. Sligo, 5 videos, filmed and streamed internationally for Tread Softly festival 2021; “Underwave” - Underwater exhibition of sculptures in Sligo Inner Bay, 4 short videos filmed underwater and streamed internationally for Tread Softly festival 2020, Sligo (2020), www.treadsoftly.ie;  “Ghosts” - site-responsive exhibition inspired by the women of 1916, The Model, Sligo Courthouse, Cathedral of the Immaculate Reception, Thomas Connolly’s, Lyon’s, Sligo (2016);  “The Trembling of the Veil”, A Country under Wave-The Theatre of W.B.Yeats, Factory Performance Space, Sligo (2015); “New Work”, Factory Performance Space, Sligo (2014); “Contemporary Landscape”, Belgravia Gallery, London, UK (2009); “Circle”, Hamilton Gallery, Sligo (2006); “New Work” Belgravia Gallery, London , UK (2005);  “Stufen”, Sligo Art Gallery, Sligo (2003).

SELECTED TWO/THREE PERSON EXHIBITIONS

“A Trembling Veil “with Patrick Hall and Nick Miller, Belgravia Gallery, London, UK (2015); “Sharing Thoughts with Elizabeth Yeats” with Grainne Cuffe, Hamilton Gallery at Factory Performance Space, Sligo (2015); “New work” with Tom Climent, Hamilton Gallery, Sligo (2012); “New work” with Monroe Hodder, Belgravia Gallery, London, UK (2011);  Galerie am Roten Turm, with Rebecca Jobson, Sommerhausen bei Würzburg, Germany (2003);  3-Dimensions, with Ann Mulrooney and S. Kennedy-Norris, Sligo Art Gallery, Sligo (1996); “New work”, with Grainne Cuffe, Greenland Gallery, Tralee (1995); ”New work” with Shane Cullen, Factory Performance Space, Sligo (1992).

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

Belgravia Gallery, Surrey Hills, UK;  “Augenlust statt Coronafrust”, Alte Turnhalle/Kulturhalle, Lohr, Germany (2020);  “1919”, Irish Consulate, New York, USA , Hamilton Gallery & Yeats Gallery, Sligo; “St. Brigid”, Irish Embassy, Berlin, Germany, 12 Star Gallery, London, UK, Department of Agriculture, Dublin & Hamilton Gallery, Sligo; “Walking Birds Mountain II”, Factory Performance Space & The Nest, Sligo;  “Legacy”, Boyle Arts Festival; “SpessArt - Unterwegs”, Alte Turnhalle/Kulturhalle, Lohr, Germany, “Design and Destroy: The Beauty of Ephemerality” – Irish Society of Stage and Screen Designers, National Exhibition, Factory Performance Space, Sligo (2019); “Walking Birds Mountain I”, Factory Performance Space, Sligo;  Boyle Arts Festival; “An Irish Airman foresees his Death”, Hamilton Gallery, Sligo; “30 x 30”, SpessArt, Alte Turnhalle/Kulturhalle, Lohr, Germany (2018); “Crazy Jane”, Hamilton Gallery, Sligo; Boyle Arts Festival (2017); “North by Northwest”, Boyle Arts Festival, Boyle (2016); “ Liminal Spaces/Yeats 2015 International Architectural Competition”, The Model, Sligo; “Impressions and Portraits of Yeats,” Hamilton Gallery, Sligo; “Of  this Place”, El Ateneo de Madrid, Espacio Prado, Madrid, Spain & Hamilton Gallery, Sligo; Boyle Arts Festival, (2015); Belgravia Gallery, London, UK (2014); Kloster Wechterswinkel, Rhön-Grabfeld, Germany (2014);  Städtische Galerie, Lohr, Germany (2014); “Naked-The Art off the Elegant Nude”, Belgravia Gallery, London, UK; “All Ireland Sculpture”, Gordon Gallery, Derry, Northern Ireland; Altes Rathaus & Galerie im Fischerhaus, Lohr, Germany; “Art Unites”, BBK Galerie, Kulturspeicher, Würzburg, Germany; Hamilton Gallery, Sligo (2013); Belgravia Gallery, London, UK (2012); “Art House Project”, Boston, USA;  “Contemporary Sculpture in Irish Gardens”, Ballintubbert House, Co. Kildare; Franck-Haus, Marktheidenfeld, Germany; Boyle Arts Festival, Boyle (selection from Civic Collection) (2011); Belgravia Gallery, London, UK; Boyle Arts Festival; Belgravia Gallery, London, UK; Tamara Comolli, Southhampton, N.Y., USA (2009); Belgravia Gallery, London, UK; Art Dublin, RDS, Dublin, represented by Belgravia Gallery, London; Schloss Museum, Lohr, Germany; Galerie Maria Kreuzer, Amorbach, Germany (2008); Belgravia Gallery, London, UK; Greenlane Gallery Paris, France (2007); Belgravia Gallery, London, UK; Sculpture in Context, Botanical Gardens Dublin (2006); Boyle Arts Festival; Spitäle, Würzburg, Germany; Sculpture in Context, Botanical Gardens Dublin (2005); Belgravia Gallery, London, UK; Sculpture in Context, Botanical Gardens & Farmleigh House, Dublin (2004); Sculpture in Context, Botanical Gardens, Dublin (2003); Grandes et Jeunes D’Aujourd Hui, Ecole des Beaux Arts, Paris, France; Lemonstreet Gallery, Dublin (2001); Grandes et Jeunes D’Aujourd Hui, Espace Eiffel Branley, Paris, France; Lemonstreet Gallery, Dublin (2000);  Dublin Airport; Sculpture in Context, Irish Management Institute, Dublin (1999);Sligo Art Gallery (1999); Galerie beim Rotes Turm, Sommerhausen, Germany (1998); Sculpture in Context, Conrad Hotel (1997&96); Malahide Castle (1995); Fernhill Gardens (1994), Dublin; Galeria Weber, Turin, Italy ; Societa della Promotrice, Turin, Italy; Iontas, RHA Gallery, Dublin and Sligo Art Gallery (1993); The Model Arts and Niland Gallery, Sligo(1992).

AWARDS & RESIDENCIES

Arts Council Agility Award (2022); PLATFORM 31 Award, Association of Local Authority Arts Offices with the Arts Council (2022); Mentorship Programme, Leitrim Arts Office (2022); Individual Artist Bursary, Leitrim County Council (2021); Arts Council Agility Award (2021); Arts Council Professional Development Award (2021); Creative Ireland Open Call (2021); Arts Council Festival Investment Scheme Funding (2021 & 2020); Leitrim Creative Sector Co-Support Programme (2020); Development Grant, Sligo County Council (2020); Creative Ireland Open Call (2020); Sligo County Council 1916-2016 Commemorative Program of Events (2016); Culture Ireland Award (2015); Sligo County Council - Artist in the Community (2012); Culture Ireland Award (2011); Bursary  Sligo County Council (2011); Bursary, Sligo County Council (2009); Bursary, Leitrim County Council (2009); Arts Council of Ireland Travel Award (2007);  SIM, Reykjavik, Iceland (2007); Support Stipend for Can Serrat, Spain (2005); Cill Rialaig, Ireland (2004); Project Award - Sligo Arts Office (2003); Arts Council Travel Award (2001); Artist in Residence, Coolloney, Co. Sligo, funded by the Arts Council and Sligo County Council (1998);  Arts Council Material and Equipment Award (1994).