Education:

-Ongoing classes at the Royal Drawing School, London.
-MA Anthropology - Maynooth University, Ireland - 2018
-International Bachelor of Music - Keele University/Maynooth University - 2003-2008
-Grizedale Arts - 2015 - 2019


Exhibition History:

2019 - The Potato Connoisseurs - Jersey Heritage and the Morning Boat,Saint Helier, Jersey.

2019 - The Great Salt - Lion Salt Works in association with Feast Journal, Cheshire, UK.

2019 - Lay of the Land - Tombolo, West Cork, Ireland.

2019 - John, is this your cup of tea? - Age and Opportunity Artist in a Care Setting, Dublin, Ireland.

2018 - The Great Work of Preserving - Kildare Arts Service Emerging Artist Bursary (solo show), Riverbank Arts Centre, Kildare, Ireland.

2018 - The Land We Live In - The Land We Left Behind - Hauser & Wirth, Somerset, UK.

2017 - The Expanded Dream Cafe - Grizedale Arts & Kiwanasoto Gathering Group, Kiwanasoto, Japan.

2016 - A Fair Land - Irish Museum of Modern Art & Grizedale Arts, Dublin, Ireland.




Residencies & Awards:

2021:
Arts Council of Ireland Agility Award
Arts Council of Ireland Professional Development Award
Creative Ireland project funding

2020:
Arts Council of Ireland Visual Arts Bursary
Arts Council of Ireland Covid Award
Kildare Arts Services Tyrone Guthrie Bursary


2019:
Jersey Heritage and the Morning Boat residency, St Helier, Jersey.
Arts Council of Ireland Travel and Training Award.
Creative Ecologies and Decolonialised Futurities residency, CASA GIAP, Chiapas, Mexico.
TOMBOLO/Lay of the Land residency, Cork, Ireland.


2018:
Age and Opportunity Artist Residency in a Care Setting, Dublin, Ireland.
Sponge School, Dublin Culture Connects with Bluebell Community Centre, Dublin.
A Fair Residency, Back Lane West, Cornwall, UK.
Arts Council of Ireland Travel and Training Award.


2017:
Kildare Arts Service Emerging Artist Bursary & Solo Exhibition, Riverbank Arts Centre.
The Dream of Kiwanasoto - long-term residency project in association with Grizedale Arts, UK & Japan.
Culture Ireland Travel Bursary.


2016:
ONE POT - long-term residency project; Fairland Collective in association with Sefton Libraries, funded by Arts Council England and Heritage Lottery.
A Fair Land, IMMA - member of core residency team, by invitation of Grizedale Arts.



Professional Memberships:

Fairland Collective - founding member
Visual Arts Ireland
Ceramics Ireland
Crafts Council of Ireland - semi-professional maker

Selected CV