Education
2019 BA (Hons.) Fine Art (1st Class Honours), GMIT Mayo Campus (ATU)
2013 BA (Ord.) Degree in Art & Design (Distinction), GMIT Mayo Campus
1990 MSc (Agric.) Agricultural Extension and Rural Development, UCD
1994 Higher Diploma in Education, UCD
1982 BA (Mod) Natural Science, Trinity College Dublin
Solo Exhibitions
2023 Preservation: Famine, Climate & Peatlands, Courtyard Gallery, National Museum of Ireland – Country Life, Co Mayo
2021 not yet saved at Ballinglen Gallery, Ballycastle, Co Mayo
2013 Picture Inequality: Challenge to Indifference at Custom House Studios + Gallery, Westport, Co Mayo
Selected Group Shows
2025
Members Group Show at Interface, as part of Clifden Arts Festival 2025
The Collectors Journey, King House, Boyle Arts Festival 2025
Mapping Stories|Scéalmhapáil , The Linenhall Arts Centre, Castlebar
Bloodroot, Pulchri Studios, The Hague & The Hamilton Gallery, Sligo
2024
When We Cease to Understand the World, Interface in Connemara as part of the Galway International Arts Festival
RHA 194th Annual Exhibition
Europe in the Heart of Ireland, Europa Gallery Dublin & Hamilton Gallery, Sligo
2023
Mayo Artists Show, Linenhall Arts Centre, Castlebar
What we stand to Lose, Mary Robinson Climate Conference Exhibition
Cairde Visual Art Exhibition, Hamilton Gallery, Sligo
RHA 193rd Annual Exhibition
‘Displacement and Belonging , Home’ – Rua Red, Dublin
2022
Cairde Visual, Hamilton Gallery, Sligo
Between the Sights of the Sun, Birr (curator Maeve Mulrennan)
2021
Mayo Artists Show (curator Eamonn Maxwell)
2019
Graduate Exhibition BA (Hons) Fine Art at GMIT Castlebar and Custom House Studios + Gallery Westport
2018
RHA 188th Annual Exhibition
Cairde Visual Art Exhibition, The Model, Sligo
North West Summer Show, Leitrim Sculpture Centre
Mayo Day Visual Art Exhibition (curator Patrick Murphy RHA)
2017
Mayo Artists Show (curator Catherine Marshall)
2015
Mayo God Help Us, Claremorris Gallery (curators Catherine Marshall & Patrick Murphy)
Off the Wall – exhibition following a summer residency at ATU
Lonely Planet – group exhibition at Luan Gallery, Athlone
2014
Claremorris Open Exhibition (curator Michelle Cotton)
2012
RHA 182nd Annual Exhibition
RDS Student Art Exhibition (RDS) and Travelling Exhibition
Collaborative Group Exhibitions
2016 The State We’re In – 3 person group show at the MART Gallery, marking 1916 Proclamation
2015 Off the Wall – 4 person post residency exhibition on mental health at GMIT Mayo Campus
2012 Let it Roll – collaborative art with Western Care service and four GMIT Fine Art students
Residencies
2025 Aras Eanna & Comhlacht Forbartha Inis Meáin, Aran Islands, Co Galway
2023 -2017 Cill Rialaig Artist Retreat, Co Kerry
2022, 2015 Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Co Monaghan
2020 Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Co Mayo
2015 Summer Residency at GMIT Mayo Campus
Awards
2025 – Artist Bursary Award – Mayo County Council
2022 – Visual Arts Bursary Award- The Arts Council
2021 – Agility Award -The Arts Council
2019 – Academic Achievement Award – GMIT, Mayo Campus (ATU)
2019 – Bursary Award – Sponsored by Ballinglen Arts Foundation
2014 – 2021 Materials Assistance Award – Mayo County Council
2013 – Exhibition Assistance Award – Mayo County Council
Collections
2018 Office of Public Works
2013 Mayo County Council
Publications
The Visual Artists’ News Sheet, March-April 2021, p18
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