Curriculum Vitae (Selected)

RESIDENCIES/AWARDS 2007-2024

Arts Council Agility Award 22/23

Residency in Cork Film Centre, Ballincollig, Cork

Cork County Council Funding, Culture Night

Residency at L'Association St. Henri, Castelnaudary, France

Laois Patronage Award (Laois County Council)

Arts Council Travel and Training Award

Genesis Project Residency, Dancehouse, Foley Street, Dublin

COLLECTIONS

Kildare Municipal Collection

Laois County Council Collection

Private Collections

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

'Half Sea & Half Sky' Solo Exhibition, Cork Film Centre

'Es hat so sollen sein' (This was meant to be), Riverbank Arts Centre, Co. Kildare

‘Beloved, all is well’, The Gallery@Abbeyleix Library, Co. Laois

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 

‘Bucolica’, Mount Congreve, Waterford

Hope and Courage, Documenta Kassel Fringe Event

Nightlight, Multi-Media Trail, DesignFest, Clonmel

Invited artist, 4th Canakkale International Biennial, Turkey

Scale Factor', Gorzow, Poland and Shandon, Cork

FLIP, Tactic Gallery, Cork

Arts Vagabonds en Lauragais, Revel, France

EXIT – Site Specific Video Installation, Big House Festival, Castletown House, Celbridge, Co. Meath

'The Journeys we make', Clonmel Junction Festival, Clonmel

LOVE/ILLUSTRATE, Filmbase, Temple Bar, Dublin

Between Lines, Drawing Exhibition, Signal Arts Centre, Bray, Co. Dublin

'La Madelon', St. Henri, Payra Sur L'Hers

National Interest, Cork Art Trail, Elysian, Cork City

Open House III, Sirius Arts Centre, Cobh, Co. Cork

'A4' Group Show, Studio 1, Kinsale, Co. Cork

Gallery 44, Group Show, McCurtain Street, Cork City

Stradfest, Stradbally, Co. Laois

Wet Paint Temporary Art Space, Group Shows, Athy, Co. Kildare

‘Doggypaddle’ Screening in Cinema Tent, Electric Picnic, Stradbally.

‘WE’ Group Show, Patrick Street Gallery, Cork

PARTICIPATORY PROJECTS

2022/23 Art Workshops, Bunscoil Rinn an Chabhlaigh, Cobh, Co Cork

2015/16  Programmer, curator and gallery assistant, Cork Film Centre. 

2015 'Folders'. A Youth Dance Project choreographed by Laura Murphy using visuals made of paper. Cork Midsummer Festival, Firkin Crane, Cork City

2015 “A Countable Transparency'. Interactive Installation using 1,000 water balloons created with Regan O'Brien. A Corp_Real Commission for Galway Dance Days: Bodies in Conflict. NUIG.

2016 'Pulped' Series of Paper making workshops with diverse participant groups, Culture Night, Cork Film Centre, Ballincollig 

2014       Primary Schools Project, Clonmel Junction Festival. 12 3rd and 4th classes developed paper characters to create story lines incorporating everyday objects and furniture within the school environment. 

2013 Mural Project, Taunagh National School, Riverstown, Co. Sligo

2014. The Art of Changemaking, a 12 day international and interdisciplinary residential programme held in Cork in association with UCC, Amsterday University of Applied Sciences, Oxford Brooks University, Knowmads Business School and Erasmus.  

2005-08 Art Facilitation in Headway Ireland, the Irish Wheelchair Association, the Alzheimer's Association, Muscular Dystrophy Ireland.

2010 Shadow Puppet Workshops for IWA Youth group facilitated with artist Kerstin Walsh

2002 –08 Youth Assistant for the IWA.  This included taking part and assisting facilitators in workshops in Art/Film-making/Samba Percussion/Dance

THIRD LEVEL EDUCATION

2002-2005 B.A. in Fine Art with Distinction, Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Dun Laoghaire.

2000-2001 Certificate in Visual Education with Distinction, IADT, Dun Laoghaire

1994-98 B.A. Hons in Sociology & German (2.1), Trinity College, Dublin