Artist’s Statement

My artwork is inspired by a collection of photographs which I have taken documenting my life and surroundings in rural Ireland. These photographs inform a rich printmaking process combining multiple techniques such as saline etching, drypoint, carborundum, collographs and photopolymer. My artwork acts as a journal encapsulating my relationship with nature and the land. Raised on a farm; barns, bogs and my connection to home have become my artwork.

 

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Solo show

RAPT

 Artist’s CV


SOLO EXHIBITION 

  • Emo Court OPW, September 2022

  • RAPT - Luan Gallery Athlone, February 2022

       


GROUP EXHIBITIONS 

  • Esker Art Centre, Tullamore, Offaly, LPS 25th Anniversary Exhibition, August 2023

  • Kilcock Art Gallery, LPS 25th Anniversary Exhibition, May 2023

  • Brigid Unfolding, Sult Artist Group, No.8 Gallery, Kildare February 2023

  • Westmeath Artist”s Awards Exhibition, Luan Gallery, December 2022 -Febrary 2023

  • Luan Winter Art Fair Dec 2021/22

  • Pluid ‘National Comfort Blanket’ Farmleigh Phoenix Park August 2021

  • Kilcock art gallery ‘Heritage - Oidhreacht Exhibition’ May 2021 still running online

  • The Luan Gallery Art Fair December 2020 to January 2021

  • Leinster Printmaking Group Show in response to Seamus Heaney’s poetry 2020

  • DLR Lexicon Library and Culture Centre, Dun Laoghaire, February 2020

  • Festival Irlandese, Bassano, Italy in June 2019.

  • Áit Art Exhibition, Scullyfest, Newmarket, Cork. August 2019

  • ‘The New State’, Graphic Studio Gallery, Temple Bar. March 2019

  • Leinster Printmaking 20th Anniversary Group Show

  • DLR Lexicon Library and Culture Centre, Dun Laoghaire August 2019

  • Ballycroy National Park, Mayo June-July 2019

  • An Táin Art Centre, Dundalk January-February 2019

  • Kilcock Art Gallery, Kildare November 2018

  • Inniscara Gallery, Rathcoole October 2018

  • Leinster Printmaking Group Show, Lessedra Art Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria November 2018

  • ‘The Red Dot’ Mini-Print Exhibition, UK September 2018.


EDUCATION 

  • Higher Diploma in Art and Design Education 2001-2002 Limerick College of Art and Design

  • Honours Degree in Fine Art (Printmaking)1997-2001 Crawford College of Art and Design, Cork


WORKSHOPS

Printmaking workshops I have facilitated

  • introduction to drypoint and relief printmaking in Esker Art Centre, Tullamore, August 2023

  • Introduction to Printmaking and Demonstration Holy Family Secondary School, Newbridge November 2019

  • Drypoint Workshop DLR Lexicon Library and Culture Centre, Dun Laoghaire September 2019



AWARDS

  • The Luan Gallery Emerging Artist Development Award 2021

  • Cork Printmakers Graduate Bursary Award 2001