Education
2014 Limerick School of Art and Design, BA First Class Honours, Fine Art, Painting
Solo & Two Person Exhibitions
2025 (Forthcoming), Untitled, with Stephen Doyle, Highlanes, Drogheda
2024 Kaleidoscope, Galway International Arts Festival, Outset, Galway
2022 Sonder, Linenhall Arts Centre, Castlebar
2021 NO RULES, 126 Artist Run Gallery, Galway
2018 Plane/Potty, with Laura Angell, 126 Artist Run Gallery, Galway
Selected group Exhibitions
2024 OXO, Outset, Galway
2023 OXO, Outset, Galway
Ballinglen Biennial, Ballinglen Museum of Art, Ballycastle, Co. Mayo
80th Anniversary Collection Exhibition, Butler Gallery, Kilkenny
193rd Annual Exhibition, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin
2022 OXO, Outset, Galway
Figurative Seven, Courthouse Gallery, Ennistymon
From the Outset, Outset, Galway
Páipéar, Hang Tough Contemporary, Dublin
192nd Annual Exhibition, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin
Generation 2022, Butler Gallery, Kilkenny
2021 191st Annual Exhibition, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin
Open Shutters, Galway Arts Centre
2020 Circuit Arts Festival, Galway
190th Annual Exhibition, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin
Congruence, I Like Your Work online exhibition curated by Brigette Mayer
The Identity Exhibition, BOS Gallery, Dublin
2019 Winter Open 2019, Rua Red, South Dublin Arts Centre
The Royal Ulster Academy 138th Annual Exhibition, Ulster Museum, Belfast
189th Annual Exhibition, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin
2018 Zurich Portrait Prize, National Gallery of Ireland
188th Annual Exhibition, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin
Hermione Annual Exhibition, Alexandra College, Dublin, Curated by Aisling Prior
2017 The Royal Ulster Academy 136th Annual Exhibition, Ulster Museum, Belfast
Kfest Music and Arts Festival, Killorglin, Co. Kerry
187th Annual Exhibition, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin
Hermione Annual Exhibition, Alexandra College, Dublin, Curated by Aisling Prior
2016 Hennessy Portrait Prize, National Gallery of Ireland
An Áit Eile: What Now?, Galway Arts Centre
You should have been there, The Coach House, Limerick
2015 The Royal Ulster Academy 134th Annual Exhibition, Ulster Museum, Belfast
Quantum Leap, Foundation15 Arts Festival, Tullamore
Galway Fringe Festival, Galway
Galway 20/20 Group Show, Curated by Design Network West, Galway
2014 Engage Studios Members Exhibition, 126 Gallery, Galway, Curated by Austin Ivers
RDS Student Art Awards travelling exhibition 2014, Bourn Vincent Gallery, Limerick
RDS Student Art Awards 2014, RDS Dublin
First Light, Limerick School of Art and Design degree show, Limerick
2013 RDS Student Art Awards travelling exhibition 2013, Luan Gallery, Athlone
RDS Student Art Awards 2013, RDS Dublin
The Gathering, group photography exhibition, Shannon Airport
WAMI, Faber Studios, Limerick
2012 ‘Symbiosis’, Hunt Museum, Limerick
Bibliography
McMonagle, Niall “What Lies Beneath: A portrait of gender and identity so full of energy” The Sunday Independent,
August 11th 2024, p. 19
McNutt, Meadhbh “Kaleidoscope” accompanying exhibition text
Collins, Jessie “My Objects of Desire”, Irish Tatler, January 2021, p. 6
McMonagle, Niall “What Lies Beneath: Sonder” The Sunday Independent
December 2nd 2018, p. 23
Murray, Clara “Gender Warrior”, The Bridge, Volume 1, Issue 2, p. 8
Rahman, Shauna: “Inspirational creations: young art runs free”, Dublin Horse Show official programme 2014, p. 88
Bennett, Eileen: “Artistic warrior”, Galway Now, December/January 2014, p. 42
Awards
2024 Visual Arts Bursary Award, Arts Council, Ireland
2023 Galway City Council purchase prize, OXO, Outset Galway
Creative Practitioner Bursary, Galway City Council
2017 Tyrone Guthrie Residency Award, Galway City Council
2013 R. C. Lewis Crosby Award for Painting, RDS Student Art awards
Collections
Galway City Council, IRL
Butler Gallery, Kilkenny, IRL
Private Collections in The United States, United Kingdom, France, and Ireland
Artist Talks/Public Speaking/Workshops
2024 Limerick School of Art & Design, TUS, Visiting lecturer and student tutorials with the Paint
Department
Highlanes, Drogheda, Mixed media collage workshop
Outset, Galway, Mixed media collage workshop
Outset, Galway, In conversation with Meadhbh McNutt during the run of ‘Kaleidoscope’
2023 Just Art It, Galway, In conversation with Elena Santos, Galway Culture Night 2023
2022 Linenhall Arts Centre, Castlebar, Group tutorial with Leaving Cert students and in Gallery
Artist Talk with general public during the run of ‘Sonder’
Limerick School of Art & Design, TUS, Artist Talk with the Paint Department
Butler Gallery, Kilkenny, Artist Talk during the run of Generation 2022
2019 126 Gallery, Artist Talk as part of ‘Unset in Stone’ Symposium
Tartare, Galway, Artist Talk as part of the ‘Wine & Design’ series