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2004-05                           

MA Contemporary Visual Art.  University College Falmouth. Cornwall.

 

1990-94                           

BA. Hons. Fine Art. The National College of Art and Design, Dublin.

Awards

2019                               

RUA Perpetual Gold Medal Prize.

 

2017                               

Arts Council of Northern Ireland International Residency Award, Rajasthan.

 

97/99/04/06/09/11/22

Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Support for the Individual Artist Awards.

 

2009                               

Culture Ireland Travel Award.

 

2007                                

Bursary to Sanskriti Kendra Foundation, New Delhi, India.

 

2005                               

Shortlisted, Jerwood Drawing Prize. London.

 

2004                               

Ulster Art Club Prize. 123rd Royal Ulster Academy  exhibition.

 

2001                               

Studio Bursary, Arts Council of Ireland.

 

2000                               

Ballinglen Foundation Fellowship Award.

 

1997                               

Arts Council of Ireland / Aer Lingus Travel Award.

 

Dungannon & South Tyrone Borough Council Bursary to The Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Annaghmakerrig.

 

1993                               

Scholarship, Ecole Nationale Superieure Des Arts Decoratifs, Paris.

 

Solo Exhibitions

2023                                '

Paintings', Royal Ulster Academy of Arts, Members Gallery, Belfast

2021

'Amidst the Flowers I Tell the Hours', Hamilton Gallery, Sligo.

2012

‘New Paintings and Drawings’, Gordon Gallery, Derry.

 

2011                               

James Wray & Co. Belfast.

 

2010                               

Queen Street Studios Gallery, Belfast.

 

2009                               

‘Sanskriti Series’, Gordon Gallery, Derry.

 

2006 /08                         

Editions Contemporary Art, Liverpool.

 

2003                               

Old Museum Arts Centre, Belfast.

 

Market Place Theatre Gallery, Armagh.

 

1999                               

The Paul Kane Gallery, Dublin.

 

1998                               

Context Gallery, Derry.

 

Selected Group Exhibitions

2024                                '

The Collection', curated group show from ACNI collection, Ards Art Centre.

2023

Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition, London

'Ancestral Houses' Invited Artists, Irish Embassy, Beijing

 

2021

'Anywhere Out of the World', curated by Michelle McKeown and Alan McMahon, QSS Gallery, Belfast

'Working Between Colour and Tone.' Ballinglen Museum of Art, Co. Mayo, Ireland.

'Meditation in Time of Civil War' Invited Artists, Hamilton Gallery, Sligo.

2020

Royal Hibernian Academy 190th Exhibition, Dublin.

'Amongst School Children' Invited Artists, Hamilton Gallery, Sligo.

2019                               

'St Brigid's Day 1989' Invited Women Artists, Hamilton Gallery, Sligo and Europe House, London. Dept. of Agriculture, Dublin., Irish Embassy, Berlin. 

 

2017-22                          

Royal Uster Academy, Annual Exhibition, Ulster Museum Belfast.

 

2017                               

'Unafraid Blue', QSS Gallery, Belfast.

 

2015-17                         

'A Terrible Beauty is Born' ,'Impressions of WB Yeats' , 'Crazy Jane' ,Invited Artists, Hamilton Gallery, Sligo.

 

2016                               

'Buy the Dozen', Collaboration with Belfast Print Workshop, QSS Gallery, Belfast.

                                       

'North by Northwest' , Boyle Arts Festival. Ireland.

 

2014                               

Irish Art, Gonville and Caius College, University of Cambridge.

 

2009-14                           

Gordon Gallery, Derry.

 

2013                               

‘Moments of Inception’ QSS Gallery at Bedford St, Belfast, (Curated by Eoin Dara).

 

2012                               

Wexford Opera Festival, Ireland.

 

Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, Dublin.

 

2011                               

Royal Ulster Academy, Ulster Museum, Belfast.

 

2009 /11                         

Boyle Arts Festival. Ireland.

 

2009                               

Acros Fukuoka, Fukuoka, Japan.

 

James Wray & Co. Belfast.    

          

2008                               

Royal Ulster Academy, Drawing Offices, Belfast.

 

2007                               

‘North & South’ Gordon Gallery, Derry.

 

2005                               

The Jerwood Drawing Prize, Jerwood Space, London; University of Gloucestershire, Cheltenham, BayArt, Cardiff; Glasgow School of Art, Scotland; The Art Institute at Bournemouth, Dorset.

 

Editions Contemporary Art, Liverpool.

 

2004                               

Royal Ulster Academy 123rd Annual Exhibition, Ulster Museum, Belfast. (Prizewinner)

 

2003 /04                         

‘Images from North Mayo’ Courthouse Gallery, Ballycastle, Co. Mayo.

 

2003                               

London Contemporary Art Fair.(Lead White Gallery).

 

Drawing and Sculpture, Ashford gallery at the Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin.

 

2002                               

Lead White Gallery, Dublin.

 

Art Contemporani de Muntanya, Farerra de Pallars, Catalonia.

 

172nd  R.H.A. Exhibition, Gallagher Gallery, Dublin. Invited  Artist.

 

2001                               

‘The Irish Connection’, The View Two Gallery, Liverpool.

 

Three Painters, The Ashford Gallery, R.H.A. Dublin.

 

'H20', five Artists, Linenhall Arts Centre, Co. Mayo.

 

2000                               

'Black and White', Drawings, The Paul Kane Gallery, Dublin.

 

1998                               

'Near and Far', Two Person Exhibition, The Paul Kane Gallery, Dublin.

 

Art Contemporani de Muntanya, Esterri D’Aneu, Catalonia, Spain.

 

1997                               

The Claremorris Open Exhibition, Claremorris, Co. Mayo.

 

Two Person Exhibition, The Hazel Gallery, Armagh, N. Ireland.

 

1996 /97                         

Belfast Young Contemporaries, One Oxford Street Gallery, Belfast.

 

1996 /97                         

Royal Ulster Academy Exhibitions, Ulster Museum, Belfast.

 

1996                               

The Claremorris Open Exhibition,  Co. Mayo and touring to Hexham, England.

 

An Toireachtas. The Guinness Hop store, Dublin.

 

3rd International Female Artists Exhibition, Stockholm, Sweden.

 

1995                               

Celtic-Uzbek Artists Exchange Exhibition, Uzbek Artists Union, Tashkent, Uzbekistan.

 

 

Collections

Arts Council of Northern Ireland

Department of Finance, NI.

International Investments and Underwriting, I.F.S.C., Dublin.

The Commission for Electricity Regulation, Dublin.

Nortel Networks.

Office of Public Works, Irish Government Collection.

Vision Consulting Ltd. Dublin.

Irish National Teachers Organisation (Loan Collection).

The Centre D’Art I Natura, Catalonia, Spain.

Ballinglen Museum of Contemporary Art.

Private Collections in Spain, Australia, Canada, U.K. and Ireland

2019

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