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Academic
2009 - 2011 MFA PAINTING, THE NATIONAL COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN, DUBLIN
2005 - 2009 BFA (Honours), THE NATIONAL COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN, DUBLIN
Awards / Residencies / Commissions
RBSA (UK) Highly Commended Award 2025
The Arts Council of Ireland Award 2024 /2022 /2020
Wicklow Arts Award 2023
Invited Artist, 192nd RHA Annual 2022
RHA Friends Award, The Royal Hibernian Academy Annual 2022
Hennessy Portrait Prize Highly Commended Award, National Gallery of Ireland 2017
RHA Studio Award, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin 2, 2015
Cover to Canvas commission, The Honourable Society of Kings Inns', 2015
Professional Development and Arts Practice Support Grant, DLRCOCO, 2011, ’12, ’15
Residency, Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Co Monaghan, 2013, ’17, ’19, ’20, ’21, ’23
Residency and exhibition, De-Appendix, Blackrock, Co. Dublin, 2013
Project Grant, Dublin City Council, 2009
European League of Institutes of the Arts Award, Residency & Commission, Brussels, 2008
Collections
Deloitte
Business to Arts
The State Art Collection
Killeen Group Holdings
The Central Bank & Financial Services Authority Ireland
Activate Capital Ireland
Scor Global
Kildare County Council
Hotel Bloom Brussels
Green8 Japan
Private Collections
Exhibitions - Solo
2019 Now Islands, The Royal Hibernian Academy Ashford Gallery, Ely Place, Dublin 2
2017 Subliminal, The Easter Snow Gallery, SEAC, Naul, Co. Dublin
2014 Learning to Fly, Áras Inis Gluaire, Belmullet, Co. Mayo
2014 Learning to Fly, Eight Gallery, Dawson St., Dublin 2
2014 This, Somewhere Else, The National Centre for Arts and Health
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025
Hunt Museum Open, Limerick, Ireland
Out of Light, City Assembly House, South William St., Dublin 2
Wexford Festival Exhibition, Green Acres, Selskar, Wexford
The 195th Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, RHA, Ely Place, Dublin
Cáirde Festival, Hamilton Gallery, Sligo
Royal Birmingham Society of Artists Summer Show, Birmingham, UK
Kilkenny Portrait Show, An Chéad Tine, Kilkenny
Connections, N.Ireland Civil Service & OPW Collections, Down Arts Centre & The Braid, Northern Ireland
Bloodroot, Pulchri Studios, The Hague, Netherlands
Connections, N.Ireland Civil Service & OPW Collections, Luan Gallery, Athlone
Scene + Heard Festival, Smock Alley, Dublin
Bloodroot, Hamilton Gallery, Sligo
2024
Borders, Rua Red, Tallaght Dublin, Ireland
Connections, N.Ireland Civil Service & OPW Collections, Farmleigh Gallery, Phoenix Park, Dublin
Europe in Ireland, Europa House, EU Headquarters, Chatham Street, Dublin 2
To Never Look Away, TØN Gallery, Temple Bar, Dublin
The Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, RHA, Ely Place, Dublin
Crosscurrents, The Municipal Lexicon Gallery, Dún Laoghaire, Dublin
Embassy of Ireland/Saint Brigid’s Well, Nanchizi Art Museum, Beijing, China
The Final Riddle, One Charlemont Square, Dublin 2
Wexford Opera Festival Exhibition, Greenacres Gallery, Wexford
2023
Climate & Health, Royal College of Physicians, Dublin
Into The Weave, Lavit Gallery, Cork
Twenty One, Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray, Wicklow
Dunamaise Arts Open, Portlaoise
Samhain, The Copper House, Dublin
Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, Ely Place, Dublin
Ancestral Houses and Meditations, touring with Embassy of Ireland to China
1515, Olivier Cornet Gallery, Dublin
Saint Brigid’s Well, Hamilton Gallery Sligo
2022
Breaking Borders, Luan Gallery, Athlone, County Westmeath
Invited artist to The Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, Ely Place, Dublin
Winter Exhibition, The House, Howth, County Dublin
Saint Brigid’s Well, Hamilton Gallery, Sligo
2021
Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, Ely Place, Dublin
Royal Ulster Academy Annual Exhibition, Alpha House, Belfast
The Society of Women Artists Annual Exhibition, The Mall, London
Meditations in Time of Civil War, WB Yeats exhibition, Hamilton Gallery, Sligo
2020
Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, Ely Place, Dublin
Covid Stories, Lismore Castle Arts, County Waterford
Embassy of Ireland Exhibition celebrating Eva Gore Booth, MoLI, Dublin
Among School Children, Hamilton Gallery, County Sligo
2019
RuaRed Winter Open, RuaRed Arts, Tallaght, Dublin
RHA Annual Exhibition, RHA, Ely Place, Dublin 2
2018
Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, RHA, Ely Place, Dublin
The Winter Exhibition, Rua Red, Tallaght, County Dublin
2017
The Hennessy Portrait Prize Exhibition, The National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin
Royal Ulster Academy Annual Exhibition, Ulster Museum, Belfast
Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, RHA, Ely Place, Dublin
2016
Royal Ulster Academy Annual Exhibition, Ulster Museum, Belfast
Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, RHA, Ely Place, Dublin
Window to Eden, St. Monica's Community Council, Edenmore, Dublin 5
2015
185th Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, RHA, Ely Place, Dublin
Imirt le do Thoil, Ennistymon Courthouse Gallery, Co.Clare
Cover to Canvas, The Honourable Society of The Kings Inn's Law Library, Dublin
The Hong Kong Convention Centre, China
Illuminations, NUI Maynooth, Co. Kildare
2014
184th Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, RHA, Ely Place, Dublin
VUE, Royal Hibernian Academy, Ely Place, Dublin
Imirt le do Thoil, Yeats Society Gallery, Sligo
2013
Copy.right: the art of appropriation, 33 Contemporary Gallery, Chicago.
Art in the Eastside Outdoor Art Billboard, 356 Woodstock Rd., Belfast
Rua Red Winter Exhibition, South Dublin Arts Centre, Tallaght, Dublin
Queen's University University of the Air: A Thousand Words, Ulster Hall, Belfast
Future Perfect, The Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery, Dublin 1Wexford Festival Exhibition, Green Acres, Selskar, Wexford
Artist Collectives
At Home Studios Artists Collective, VAI Head Office Dublin
Visual Artist Ireland
ArtNetDLR Collective
Links
The Artist's Well Jan 21st 2023 Alan Keane interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0lUvjEa9cQ
DLR Arts / Claire Halpin interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6VLemFhkSs