At the centre of my
work is a search for balance between precision and
randomness, and an attempt to find systems within the
interaction of discordant pictorial elements.
I produce intensely worked surfaces that transform
individual motifs into kaleidoscopic landscapes. These
motifs act as the work’s parameters which I then alter
through the process of layering and eroding the paintings’
surface, to uncover fresh, lateral associations.
I use a wide variety of materials in order to fully explore
the dynamics of both complementary and dissonant marks,
shapes, colours and imagery.
Education:
2006
MA Fine Art,
Chelsea College of Art and Design, London
2005
Post-Graduate
Diploma Fine Art, Chelsea College of Art and Design, London
2000
BA Fine Art
Painting, National College of Art and Design, Dublin
Solo
Exhibitions:
2003
Draíocht,
Blanchardstown, Dublin, Ireland.
Upcoming:
Rua Red, Dublin
Selected
Group Exhibitions:
2011
Candy
Mountains, Arbeit,
London
BAT Pack II, Mile End Art Pavilion,
London
Drawn Together, Jeannie Avent
Gallery, London
2010
A Night -
there lay the Days between, 242 Gallery, London
Summer
Exhibition 2010, Rua Red, Dublin
Artsdepot Open 2010, Artsdepot, London
Features IV, Fowle Hall, Kent
Curated by Anika
Carpenter and Ellie Howitt
BAT Pack - Bow Arts Trust
Live/Work Show 2010, Mile End Art Pavilion, London
Worcester Open 2010, Contemporary Art, PITT Gallery,
Worcester
2009
Open
Submission, Dunamaise Arts Centre, Co.Laois, Ireland
Curated by Martin
Gale
P1 Exhibition, Bow Arts Trust, London
2008
Confessions
of a Tiger, Brick Lane Gallery, London
Curated by Hugh
McCarthy.
Participating
artists: Sheila Rennick, Nevan Lahart, Cara Thorpe, Lizzie
Kinsella, Mark Cullen, Gillian Lawler, Jonathan Mayhew, Ben
Readman, Eoin Mac Lochlainn, Alice Peillon, Hugh McCarthy,
Robert Armstrong
Eigse Open Selection, Carlow
Arts Festival, Ireland
Unnatural Histories, The
Nunnery, Bow Arts Trust, London
Curated by Myriam
Blundell.
Participating artists: Kim Baker, Mick Bateman, G.Roland
Biermann, Don Clarke, Robin Dixon, Natuka Honrubia, Mandy
Hudson, Becky Hunt, Mark Maxwell, Erin Newell, Ki June
Park, Alice Peillon, Albert Potrony, Junghee Roh, Gabriel
Tejada, Jill Townsley, Laura White, Samuel
Wood
Lunacy (on the Leap Year), Red
Velvet Curtain Club, Whitechapel Gallery, London
Curated by Lili
Spain and Sarah Grainger-Jones.
2007
Thirty Two Thousand Years Later: Painting at Pallas
Contemporary Projects, Dublin
Participating
artists: Michael Canning, Clare Cashman, Brendan Flaherty,
Beth O’Halloran, Cormac Healey, Nevan Lahart, Gillian
Lawler, Colin Martin, Siobhan McDonald, Ross McDonnell,
Hugh McCarthy, Paul McKinley, Carly McNulty, Tadhg
McSweeney, Madeline Moore, Alice Peillon, Ann Quinn, Sheila
Rennick, Sonia Shiel, Leda Scully, Mark Swords and Keith
Wilson
2006
7 Irish
Artists, Loads of Fun Studios, Baltimore, USA
Curated by Bart
O’Reilly.
Participating
artists: Laura Buckley, Nevan Lahart, Tadhg McSweeney, Bart
O’Reilly, Alice Peillon, Cóilín Rush
Halcyon
Days, Tannery Arts, London
The Nationwide Mercury Prize Art Exhibition 2006, The
Gallery at The Hospital, London
House
Show, 211 Richmond Road, London
Curated by Laura
Buckley.
Participating artists: Laura Buckley, Andy Jackson, Dean
Kenning, Ursula Mayer, Laura Morrison, Alice Peillon,
Josephine Wood.
2004
Wellworth
Studios Exhibition, London
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
Curated by Laura
Buckley and Alice Peillon
Participating
artists: Laura Buckley, Tadhg McSweeney, Robbie O’Halloran,
Bart O’Reilly, Alice Peillon, Cóilín Rush
Summer
Exhibition, Lead White Gallery, Dublin.
Participating
artists: Anne Marie Bridges, John Philip Murray, Louisa
Sloan, Helen O’Leary, Jim Kavanagh, Paula Corcoran, Beth
O’Halloran, Christian Vetter, Alice Peillon, Alan Keane,
Peter Monaghan, Pat MacAllister, Robbie O’Halloran, Laura
Buckley, Christophe Newmann
The
173rd
Annual Exhibition,
RHA Gallagher Gallery, Dublin
2002
Six – New Irish Painting, Orchard Gallery, Derry, Northern
Ireland.
Curated by Laura
Buckley and Alice Peillon
Participating
artists: Laura Buckley, Tadhg McSweeney, Robbie O’Halloran,
Bart O’Reilly, Alice Peillon, Cóilín
Rush
Painted,
Linenhall Arts Centre, Castlebar, Co.Mayo, Ireland.
Curated by Laura
Buckley and Alice Peillon
Participating
artists: Laura Buckley, Tadhg McSweeney, Robbie O’Halloran,
Bart O’Reilly, Alice Peillon, Cóilín
Rush
The
172nd
Annual Exhibition,
RHA Gallagher Gallery, Dublin
2001
Quadrant 2001 – The Young Contemporaries, LSAD, Limerick,
Ireland.
Selected by Sean
Taylor
Group
Six, Rubicon Gallery, Dublin.
Curated by Laura
Buckley and Alice Peillon
Participating
artists: Laura Buckley, Tadhg McSweeney, Robbie O’Halloran,
Bart O’Reilly, Alice Peillon, Cóilín
Rush
EV+A,
Limerick City Hall, Co.Limerick, Ireland
Selected by Salah
M. Hassan
Awards
/ Residencies:
2010 Winner,
Rua Red Artist Award
2008 -
present Bow Arts Trust Live/Work Scheme
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,
Trondheim, Norway
Shortlisted for Hennessy Craig
Scholarship, (RHA Gallagher Gallery, Dublin)
Collections:
Office of
Public Works, Dublin
Axa
Collection of Irish Art
Ernst & Young (London)
Private Collections
