Education
Corcoran College of Art and Design, Washington D.C., BFA, Honours, 1982-1984, 1985-1987
Studio Art Centres International, Florence, Italy, Fine Arts, 1984-1985
Pyramid Atlantic, Silver Springs, Maryland, Printmaking, papermaking and book binding, 1986-1987
The Crawford College of Art and Design, Cork City, Ceramics, 1994, Life painting, 1995
Honours, Awards, Grants
The Cill Rialaig Project Residency Award, Spring 2014
Louth County Council, Arts Act Grant, Bursary, Autumn 2012
Tyrone Guthrie Residency Bursary, awarded by Louth County Council, Spring 2012
Louth County Council, Arts Act Grant, Artists Collective, Drogheda, Spring 2010 and 2009, Autumn 2009
Arts Council, Capital Grant, Artists Collective, Drogheda, December 2009
Leonardo Project, Craft Exchange program, Louth Craftmark, 2009-2010
Solo Exhibitions
Droichead Arts Centre, Drogheda, ‘Who Gotta Match’, June 2016-August 2016
Garter Lane Arts Centre, FOH Space, Waterford, ‘Briar Patch Born and Bred’, June-July 2014
Upstairs Gallery, Watergate Theatre, Kilkenny, ‘Go Big or Go Home’, August- September 2013
Group Exhibitions
Beaulieu House, Co. Louth, ‘Boom Shakalaka on the Duck Lawn’. Outdoor installation, 2014
Cill Rialaig Arts Centre, Ballinskelligs, Co. Kerry, ‘ART 250’, group show, July 2014
Hive Emerging, Waterford, ‘WET’, group show February 2014
Droichead Arts Centre, Drogheda, County Louth, ‘Unified’, group show November 2012
Drogheda 600 Arts Collective, ‘Negotiations‘, Drogheda, County Louth, group show, November 2012
The Print Point, Drogheda, County Louth, group show as part of Culture Night 2013, 2012 and 2011
Paper Girl Dublin Exhibition, Great Strand Street, Dublin, June 2012
The Artists Collective, group show May 2010, Drogheda Fringe Festival 2010
Corcoran Gallery, Juried Show, Washington D.C. 1987
Swann Street, Group show, DuPont Circle, Washington D.C. 1986
Govinda Gallery, ‘Installation on the Docks’, Georgetown, Washington D.C., graffiti art installation for the opening party for Andy Warhol’s America book and Ads series 1985
The Ritz Hotel Project, Washington D.C., student curator and participant in performance and installation with Washington and N.Y. Projects for the Arts, 1983
Various Group shows with colleges
Related Work experience
Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda, invigilator, Schools programme facilitator
The Print Point, Drogheda, workshop facilitator
FAS Kick Start Program, workshop facilitator, Drogheda
Edgewater exchange program, Drogheda, workshop facilitator
Louth Craftmark, Drogheda, Craft classes
After school project, Cork, Craft classes
Private tutor, Washington DC and Paros, Cyclades, Greece
‘Last Chance Meal’, Contemporary Art Publication, Editor
Jobs in Field,
OPW, Battle of the Boyne Visitors Centre, Oldbridge, Co. Meath, June 2014-December 2014, May 2015-October 2015, April 2016-October 2016
Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda, January 2013-January 2014
Louth Craftmark, Drogheda, April 2007-January 2012
Graffiti Theatre Company, Cork, various dates, 1990-1995
Crawford Art Gallery, Cork, 1993
Gibson and O’Rourke Interior Design, Dublin and Cork, various projects, 1992-1994
Judge Gallery, Washington DC, 1986-1987
