At the centre of my work is a
search for a balance between precision and randomness, and
an attempt to find systems within the interaction of
discordant pictorial elements.
I often like to produce intensely worked surfaces that
transform individual motifs into kaleidoscopic landscapes.
Education:
2006
MA Fine Art, Chelsea College of Art and Design, London, UK
2005
Post-Graduate Diploma Fine Art, Chelsea College of Art and
Design, London, UK
2000
B.A. Fine Art Painting, National College of Art and Design,
Dublin, Ireland
Solo
Exhibitions:
2003
Draíocht, Blanchardstown, Dublin, Ireland.
Selected
Group Exhibitions:
Upcoming
Worcester
Open 2010, Contemporary Art, PITT Gallery,
Worcester.
2009
Open
Submission, Dunamaise Arts Centre,
Co.Laois
P1
Exhibition, Bow Arts Trust, London
2008
Confessions
of a Tiger, Brick Lane Gallery, London
Eigse
Open Selection, Carlow Arts Festival, Ireland
Unnatural
Histories, The Nunnery, Bow Arts Trust,
London
2007
Thirty
Two Thousand Years Later: Painting at Pallas Contemporary
Projects, Dublin.
2006
7
Irish Artists, Loads of Fun Studios,
Baltimore, USA
Halcyon
Days,
Tannery Arts, London
The
Nationwide Mercury Prize Art Exhibition
2006,
The Gallery at The Hospital, London
2004
Wellworth
Studios Exhibition, London
Group
Show of Mill Cove and Hallward Artists, Hallward Gallery,
Dublin
Something
Above the Sofa, Rubicon Gallery, Dublin
The
174th
Annual
Exhibition, RHA Gallagher Gallery, Dublin
2003
50/50,
Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin.
Flix,
Rubicon Gallery, Dublin.
Group
Show,
Sligo Art Gallery, Co.Sligo, Ireland
Summer
Exhibition, Lead White Gallery, Dublin.
The
173rd
Annual
Exhibition, RHA Gallagher Gallery, Dublin
Painted,
Signal Arts Centre, Bray, Co.Wicklow, Ireland
Painted,
Bank of Ireland Arts Centre, Dublin
2002
On
Board,
Sligo Art Gallery, Co.Sligo, Ireland
Six
– New Irish Painting, Orchard Gallery, Derry,
Northern Ireland.
Painted,
Linenhall Arts Centre, Castlebar, Co.Mayo, Ireland.
The
172nd
Annual
Exhibition, RHA Gallagher Gallery, Dublin
Buoy,
(in aid of the Artists Association of Ireland), Project
Arts Centre, Dublin.
2001
Quadrant
2001 – The Young Contemporaries, LSAD Gallery Space,
Clare St, Limerick, Ireland. (Selector: Sean Taylor).
Miniature
IV,
Period Gallery, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
Group
Six,
Rubicon Gallery, Dublin.
EV+A,
Limerick City Hall, Co.Limerick, Ireland (Selector: Salah
M. Hassan)
Awards /
Residencies:
2007
Shortlisted for Celeste Art Prize, London
2006
Finalist, The Nationwide Mercury Prize Art Exhibition 2006,
London
2004
The Arts Council of Ireland, Professional Development and
Training, Strand 1 Award
2002
Laedemoen Kunstnerverksteder (LVK) residency (1month),
Trondheim, Norway
Shortlisted for Hennessy Craig Scholarship, (RHA Gallagher
Gallery, Dublin)
Collections:
Axa Collection of Irish Art
Ernst & Young (London)
Private Collections