CV

2013: Diploma in Photography, Photography Institute, Pembroke Rd, Dublin.

2010: B.A. Visual Arts Practices, Hons.  IADT, Dún Laoghaire, Co. Dublin.

2004: DVI, NCAD, Dublin.

(B.A. Hons French/ Irish, H. Dip. Ed.; T.T.G; Higher Diplomas in Spanish and Italian.)

Member of the Leinster Printmaking Studio, Clane, SULT Artist-led Collective and VAI.

2022: Featured on “The Artists Well”

Awards:

2024:    Arts Act Grant Kildare Co Co Arts Service to complete Island Project

Creative Communites Collaborative Grant with Shane Hynan and Sheena Malone, Kildare Co Council

2023:    Agility Award, Arts Council

Arts Act Grant Kildare Co Council on behalf of Sult Artists, to organise an International Open Call Visual Arts Exhibition for Brigid 1500, Kildare in 2024

2022:    Arts Act Grant Kildare Co Council Island Project

Grant on behalf of SULT Artists for LIFE GOES ON, marking the withdrawal of the British Army from Ireland in 1922, as part of the Decade of Commemorations Programme.

2017 -2021:

Arts Act Grant Kildare Co Council for various projects above

2018:   Culture Ireland Grant on behalf of LPS in Italy

Culture Ireland Grant for Impact 10 Encuentro, Santander

2016:    3rd Prize, Lessidra International Mini-Print, Bulgaria

2013:    Foras na Gaeilge award for Midland Project

Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Co Monaghan. Kildare Co Council Award

2010-13: Cill Rialaig, Co. Kerry

Projects:

2019  - ongoing: Island Project: exploring, painting, documenting islands off the Irish coast.

2018-22: Re:Place, an exploration of rural Ireland in video, painting and printmaking.

2016 -17: Curator/ Organiser Little Stories Little Prints, 1916 Commemorative Visual Arts Project

2012 - 2015: The Midland and Broadstone Projects, a multimedia project exploring the Midlands of Ireland and the legacy of the MGWR 

2008 - 2012: Coordinator/participant Le Chéile Print Project, International Printmaking Project

Solo Exhibitions:

2022:    16 Islands, Brú na Bóinne (Newgrange and Knowth), 31st July- 23rd Aug

            Ionadú / Re: Place, (Painting and Print) Cultúrlann Béal Feirste, Márta\Aibreán 2022

2021:    Ionadú / Re: Place, (Painting, Prints and Video), Áras Inis Gluaire, Belmullet.

2018:    Exhibition of Original Prints, Imagine Festival. Waterford. (October) INVITED ARTIST

            Midland Journey, Printmaking Exhibition, Impact 10 Encuentro International, Santander

2017:  Midland/Lár Tíre, photographic exhibition touring libraries Dublin, Kildare and Offaly.

            Aug-Sept: Midland- Lár Tíre, Edenderry Library (Heritage Week Programme).

2015:    Silence, Broadstone Shed, Kildare Library, (Aug) now Permanent Exhibition

            Midland- Lár Tíre. Cycling the MGWR from Past to Present.  Multimedia exhibition, National Photographic Archive, Temple Bar, Dublin 2 (Jan-May)

2014-15: Mid Land 2 / Lár Tíre 2, Linenhall Arts Centre, Castlebar, Co. Mayo (Nov-Jan)

2013:    Mid Land1/ Lár Tíre 1, Áras Inis Gluaire, Béal an Mhuiread, Co Muigheo. (July/Aug)

2011:    As it is, Paintings and Prints, Iniscarra Gallery, Rathcoole, Co. Dublin (Nov)

            Silence, an exhibition of photographs and video, The Ivy House, Dublin 1 (Feb-May)

2002:    First Voice, Mullingar Arts Centre, Co Westmeath. (Feb-Mar)

1998:    Radharcanna agus Eile, Ionad Árainn, Inis Mór, Aran Islands, Co Galway. (June)

 Recent International Selected Group Exhibitions

2020/21/22: Miniprints: Bimpe,Canada; Cantabria, Santander. Kazanlak, Bugaria.

2019:    Miniprint de Cantabria, Santander, Spain

            L.P.S. Responds…, Bassano and Orte, Italy Nov: LPS at Lessidra, Sofia, Bulgaria. 

2018:   Bienial Duoro, Portugal, INVITED ARTIST (Aug-Nov)

            Miniprint exhibitions: Lessidra International Miniprint and Miniprint Kazanlak.

            3rd International Miniature Print Exhibition, New York.

2017:    9th Global Print Bieniale, Portugal INVITED ARTIST.   

            Miniprint exhibitions at Cadaques, (Spain) Lessidra, Kazanlak, (Bulgaria); Bimpe, Canada. 

2016:    Miniprint exhibitions at Lessidra, Kazanlak, (Bulgaria) and Cadaques, (Spain).

2011:    Le Chéile at Oriel Ynys Mon, Llangefni, Anglesey, Wales. (Sept-Nov)

            Le Chéile Print Project, Invited International Touring Exhibition, South Australia

            Celtica Festival, Port Arthur, Australia (Dec)       

Selection of Recent Group Exhibitions in Ireland (Selected, Invited and/or Curated)

2024:    Signal Arts Summer Show

Cairde Visual 2024, Sligo,

Pathways, Cahir Arts

Bucolica, Mont Congreve, Co Waterford (Artform Dunmore East,

Unravelling and Icon, Kildare Town

2023:    LPS 25th Anniversary, Kilcock Gallery, Esker Arts, May – Aug,

Chaos/Order, Municipal Gallery, Lexicon, Dún Laoghaire

Here/Now, Artnetdlr group show, Walters, Dún Laoghaire

Brigid Unfolding, No 8 Gallery, Kildare

2022:    Life Goes On, Exhibition for Kildare Decade of Commemoration 2022, Newbridge,

Life Goes On, Phoenix Park Visitor Centre, November.

Make your Mark, Siamsa Tíre, Tralee, Jan – March

Féile an Earraigh, Ballyferriter, Kerry, April

2021/2: Annual Exhibition, 44 the Quay Gallery, Waterford, Nov 2021 – Feb 2022

Oidhreacht – Heritage, Kilcock Art Gallery, June – July

Discovering Print 2021, Green Acres, Wexford, July – Aug

Féile an Earraigh, Ballyferriter, Kerry, April

2020:    ImPRESSions, Galway Art Festival, Aug – Sept:

LPS Responds to Heaney, Mountains to Sea Festival, Lexicon, Dún Laoghaire

Interpretations in Printmaking, Kilcock Art Gallery, Kilcock, Co. Kildare

 2019:   ImPRESSions, Galway Arts Festival

Hopkins Summer School Exhibition, Newbridge.

Féile an Earraigh, Ballyferriter, Kerry, April

2018:    LPS 20th Anniversary, Ballycroy National Park and Lexicon, Dún Laoghaire, May – Sept

            Féile an Earraigh, Ballyferriter, Kerry, April

2017:    LPS 20th Anniversary touring exhibiton, Dublin, Kildare, Kilkenny, Louth etc

            Féile an Earraigh, Ballyferriter, Kerry

2016:    Invisible Stories, a project devised and curated by Sheena Malone, (INVITED ARTIST),

Second Harvest, Riverbank Art Gallery, Newbridge, (INVITED ARTIST) Aug

LPS @ Castlewarren Studios, Kilkenny Fringe 

Impressions, Galway Arts Festival, Galway, July

Little Stories, Little Prints touring venues around Ireland    

Comóradh, Kenny Gallery, Galway July

2015:    Impressions Book Exhibition, Galway Arts Festival

            Bog 50 x 70, Connemara Bog Week, Letterfrack, Co Galway, May-Jun

2013:    Duanaire, Magill Summer School, Glentees, Co Donegal, July

2011:    Joyce Exhibition, Castle Keep, Maynooth, Co Kildare, June

2010:    The Big Egg Hunt, invited artists, various venues, Dublin, Feb-April

Printmakers in Residence, Le Chéile at Cill Rialaig, Urban Retreat Gallery, Dublin. Jul-Aug

Impressions 11, Framewell Gallery, Thomastown, Co. Kilkenny. June

2009:    Hopkins at The General Stores …artists respond, Monasterevin, Co. Kildare. July

2008:    Bog 50x 70, Éigse Fringe, Carlow. June, The Factory, Capel Street, Dublin, March

  Trace, 10 to12 artists, Pallas Contemporary Projects, Dublin. June

            Le Chéile, Graphic Studio Gallery, Dublin. Mar      

Commissions and Collections: 

Dublin Bus, commissioned work.

OPW, Irish Rail, Kildare Co. Council Municipal Collection. 

Private and Public Collections in Ireland, England, France, Spain, Portugal, Bulgaria, Canada, U.S.A., Bermuda, and Australia.

Publications:

2024:    Unravelling an Icon. Celebrating and Remembering Brigid and her Legacy.  For Sult and Brigid 1500

2022:    Life Goes On, Marking the withdrawal of the British Army from Ireland in 1922. For Kildare Decade of Commemorations

2021:    VAI newsletter,  (2021, 2009 and 2008)

2020:    Silence: Broadstone Shed, commissioned by Dublin Bus for limited distribution

2018:    LPS 20th Anniversary Exhibition Booklet

2016:    Little Stories Little Prints, Limited Edition Publication to accompany exhibition

2011:    Le Chéile at Cill Rialaig ,  Le Chéile Australian catalogue 

2009:    Le Chéile mid-term publication