Education
1983 – 1987 – Edinburgh College of Art Edinburgh Scotland
BA Hons Fine Art
1988 – 1990 – Edinburgh College of Art Post Graduate Diploma Fine Art
Andrew Grant Scholarship
Awards
2020 – Professional Artist Grant Monaghan County Council
2018 – Professional Artist Grant Monaghan County Council
Creative Ireland 2018/19 Portrait of a Village
2019 – Artist in Prison Loughran House Prison
Elected Royal Ulster Academy
2018 – Artist in Prison Mountjoy Dochas
2017 – Professional Artist Grant Monaghan County Council
2016 – Artist in Prison Scheme Portlaios Prison
2012 – Artist In Prison Scheme Arts Council Ireland.
2011 – Pollock Krasner Award
2004 – Fellowship Vermont Studio Centre USA
2017 – Ballinglen Fellowship
2018 – Cill Raillig Kerry
2009 – O Reardon House Artist in Residency Newfoundland
1991 – Tyrone Guthrie Art Centre Artist in Residence
Reviews
2016 – Visual Arts Ireland
2016 – Irish Arts Review Magazine June 2016
2011 – Clefnote Chicago
2010 – Aiden Dunne The Irish Times
Fred Johnson TheSunday Time Cultural Magazine
Aiden Dunne The Irish Times
Ian Hill Belfast Telegraph
Public Collections
The Arts Council of Northern Ireland
Renault Ireland
Bank of Ireland
Monaghan County Council, Limerick County Council.
Mayo County Council
Beaumont Hospital
Drogheda Hospital
ACC Bank of Ireland
Office of Public Works Donegal County Council
Boyle Civic Collection
Tyrone Guthrie Art Centre
Monaghan County Museum
AIB Bank
An Grianan Theatre Letterkenny
Monaghan VEC.
New Brunswick Canada
Solo Exhibitions (One Person)
2020 – Gormleys Fine Art Dublin
Fidra Fine Art Scotland
2019 – Off Grid Claremorris Fine Art Gallery, Mayo
2017 Doorway Gallery Dublin
Custom House Studios Mayo
Alley Art Centre Strabane Co Tyrone
2016 – Claremorris Contemporary Fine Art . Co Mayo
2015 – Fidra Fine Art North Berwick Scotlan
2014 – Doorway Gallery Dublin
2013 – The TomCaldwell Gallery Belfast
2012 – Claremorris Contemporary Fine Art
The Market House Monaghan
2011 – Lydon Contemporary Chicago
Peter Lewis Gallery St Johns Newfoundland
2009 – Blackbird Gallery Kilkenny
Buckley Gallery Co. Cork
2008 – Tom Cadwell Gallery , Belfast
The Market House Gallery Monaghan
2007 – The Private Collector Gallery , Cork
2006 – The Private Collector Gallery , Cork
2005 – The Mullen Gallery , Belfast
The Private collector Gallery, Cork
The Market Place Gallery , Armagh N. Ireland
2003 – An Grianan Theatre, Letterkenny, Co. Donegal
The Mullen Gallery, Belfast
2002 – Atlantic Light, Wellspring Gallery Co. Kerry
On Edge, the Origin Gallery Dublin
2001 – Artemisia Gallery , Chicago, U.S.A.
Mullingar Art Centre, Co. West Meath
1999 – The Logan Gallery ,Galway
Source The Dolmen Gallery Waterford
Source Drochied Art centre, Drogheda
New Works St Patricks train, Armagh n. Ireland
1995 – Donagh Series Monaghan County Museum
1994 – Donagh Series the Basement Gallery, Dundalk Co. Louth
Donagh Series The Cootehill Arts Festival Cavan
1992 – New Works Harmony Hill Art Centre Lisburn, Co. Antrim
New Works The Crescent Art Centre Belfast
1990 – The Step Gallery Edinburgh Scotland
Hanover Fine Art Edinburgh Scotland
Two-Person Exhibitions
2012 – At Home Exhibition Tom Caldwell Gallery , Belfast
2011 – Tom Caldwell Gallery Belfast
2010 – The Origin Gallery , Dublin
2004 – The Wellspring Gallery, Co. Kerry
1997 – New Works The Paul Kane Gallery Dublin
Selected Group Exhibitions
2020 – Royal Ulster Academy Annual Exhibition Ulster Museum Belfast
2019 – Boyle Arts Festival Kingshouse
Royal Ulster Academy Annual Exhibition Ulster Museum Belfast
2018 – Boyle Arts Festival Kingshouse.
Royal Ulster Exhibition Annual Exhibition Ulster Museum Belfast.
2017 – Boyle Arts Festival Kingshouse.
2016 – Irish Wings Paxos
Winter Show Gerber Fine Art Glasgow.
Barbara Stanley Gallery London
Hamilton Gallery Sligo
Pentland Fine Art Aberdeen
Glow Catherine Hammond Gallery Cork
Boyle Kingshouse Exhibition
2015 – Boyle Exhibition Roscommon
The Claremorris Gallery
The Royal Ulster Academy Annual Exhibition
2014 – The Claremorris Contemporary Art gallery Ireland
The Open Eye Gallery Edinburgh
The Arusha Gallery Edinburgh
2013 – The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition London.
2010 – The Boyle Arts Festival 21 st Anniversary of The Civic Collection
2008 – The Blackbird Gallery, Co. Kilkenny
2007 – Art Fair New York
2006 – The Boyle Arts Festival, Co. Roscommon.
Tom Caldwell Gallery Belfast.
2005 – The Boyle Arts Festival, Co. Roscommon
2004 – Lydon Fine art, Chicago U.S.A.
The Mullan Gallery , Belfast.
The Hammond Gallery Cork
2003 – Revealing Objects Queens University Belfast.
Royal Ulster Academy
2002 – Revealing Objects Queens University Belfast.
The Royal Ulster Academy , Belfast
Mullan Gallery, Belfast
Light and Space The Screig Gallery Donegal
The Boyle Arts Festival Contemporary Ulster Artists.
2001 – Daffodil Gallery Skerries Dublin
1999 – Daffodil Gallery Skerries Dublin
Gaelforce Gracefielf Art Centre Dumfries Scotland
The Henziel Gallery, Aberdeen.
Island Works Monaghan Co. Museum
1998 – Paul Kane Gallery, Dublin
1997 – The Carrol Gallery Longford.
Burdwedel Arts Festival Germany
1996 – Designs on Peace U.S. Embassy Dublin
NewWorks The Dyehouse Gallery Waterford.
1994 – Iontas Sligo Art Gallery
1993 – Heartland SeaboundTheSligo Art Gallery.
1992 – Heartland Seabound The Old Museum Building Belfast.
Heartland High Plains, The Market House Gallery Monaghan
