Education
2021 PhD candidate, Trinity College Dublin, Research area: Repetition in Contemporary Art
2010-2011 MPhil in Art, Specialist subject: Contemporary Art, Trinity College Dublin
2002-2004 MFA in Fine Art, The Slade School of Fine Art, London
1991-1995 BA in Fine Art, Limerick School of Art and Design, Ireland
Awards & Funding
2021 Arts Council England, Creative Practice Development Grant
2021 Merseyside Arts Foundation, ESF Coronavirus Response Fund.
2020 A-N Bursary, Time Space Money award
2020 PIVOT mid-career programme award with Castlefield Galley (Manchester) and the Bluecoat (Liverpool), (short listed)
2017 Trinity Visual and Performing Arts Fund, Trinity College Dublin
2017 Anthology Art Prize UK, curated by Matthew Collings, Faye Dowling, Kate Bryan, Zavier Ellis and Bert Moore (short listed)
2015-2016 Irish Research Council, PhD Research Grant
2015 Artist Bursary, South Dublin County Council
2014 & 2013 Travel & Training Award, Arts Council of Ireland (also awarded in 2001)
2014 HIAP Artist Residency Bursary, Temple Bar Gallery & Studios, Dublin
2013 & 2010 National College of Art & Design, Development Fund Award
2012 – 2015 Trinity College Studentship, PhD award, Dublin
2012 The Red Stables Studios award, Dublin City Council
2012 Crookshank-Glin Prize MPhil Thesis, Trinity College Dublin. Area of research: Contemporary Art
2008 – 2010 Artist Bursary, Arts Council of Ireland – 3 year bursary
2008 & 2003. AIB Art Award, Dublin (shortlisted on both occasions)
2007 & 2006 Artist Bursary, Arts Council of Ireland
2004 Adrian Carruthers Award, The Slade School of Fine Art, London (short listed)
2003 – 2004 Arts and Humanities Research Board, London
2003 Mary Farl Powers Award, Arts Council of Ireland
2003 & 2002 Professional Development & Training Award, Arts Council of Ireland
2003 & 2002 The South Square Trust, The Slade School of Fine Art, London
2002 – 2004 Euan Uglow Scholarship, The Slade School of Fine Art, London
2002 Artist Bursary, Dublin City Council
2000 Artist Bursary, Arts Council of Ireland
Artist Residencies
2022 Interface Inagh, Art & Science Research Residency, Ireland
2021 Leitrim Sculpture Centre, Ireland, Artist Research Residency
2015 & 2017 Irish Museum of Modern Art, Artist Residency Program, Dublin
2015 RHA Studio Residency, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin
2014 HIAP & TBG+S International Artist Residency Award, Helsinki, Finland
2013 – 2014 Dublin City Council Artist Residency Award, Albert Cottages
2013 Artist-in-Residence, Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris
2008 – 2011 Artist-in-Residence, Fire Station Artists Studios, Dublin
Solo Exhibitions
2017 Through a Glass Darkly, Galway Arts Centre
2017 This isn’t it, nag gallery, Dublin
2015 Without a Future, MART galleries 1 & 2, Dublin
2014 Othering, Platform for the Arts, Belfast
2013 Nonknowledge, nag gallery, Dublin
2008 I live in the cracks in the walls, Pallas Contemporary Projects, Dublin
2007 White Picket Fencing, The Belltable Arts Centre, Limerick, Ireland
2007 The Long Goodbye, Droichead Arts Centre, Drogheda, Ireland
2005 Sea of Unknowing, Pallas Heights, Dublin, Ireland
A selection of curated exhibitions
2021 Women in the Machine, VISUAL & Carlow Arts Festival
2021 Is This It? The Royal Standard, Northern Lights, Liverpool
2021 Exquisite Corpse, ‘Play’ for Light Night, Liverpool Arts Festival
2020 Making and Motherhood: Portraits in Lockdown, collaborative project with Mothers Who Make
2018 Acts to Objects, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions curated by MART (Irl) and LACE (USA)
2018 LUX, Solstice Arts Centre, Navan, curated by Davey Moor, OPW
2017 Anthology Art Prize UK, Charlie Smith Gallery London
2017 Destroy these Walls, Arena 1 Gallery, Santa Monica Art Studios, Los Angeles
2016 Activating Pangea, DAC Gallery, Los Angeles, curated by MART gallery
2015 Instinct, Los Angeles Centre for Digital Art, Los Angeles
2014 Re-Framing the Domestic in Irish Art, Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda
2011 Polemically Small, Torrence Art Museum, Los Angeles and Charlie Smith Gallery, London
2010 Materials Worlds curated by Riann Coulter, FE McWilliam Gallery, Co Down
2009 Preponderance of the Small, a Gallery 3 project at Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin
2009 Dumb Waiter curated by Fieldgate Gallery, London at James Taylor Gallery, London
2009 New London School curated by Charlie Smith Gallery, London at Galerie Schuster, Berlin
2008 Soot from the Funnel curated by Fieldgate Gallery, London at LOKAAL01, The Netherlands
2008 Parallax curated by Richard Ducker at Fieldgate Gallery, London
2008 Walking through Walls curated by Eli Zafran at Museum of Modern Art, Tel Aviv
2008 & 2007 The Future Can Wait curated by Charlie Smith Gallery, London at Old Truman Brewery, London