CV
Solo Exhibitions
2024: GROUND, F.E. McWilliam Gallery, curator: Riann Coulter
2020: Wandering Things, Kunsthaus Dahlem, Berlin, curator: Mirjami Schuppert
2018: Slippage, Platform Arts, Belfast
2017: Traces of an activity, The Ashford Gallery, RHA, Dublin, curator: Ruth Carroll/Victoria Evans
An Exhibition, qss, Belfast
2015: over & over + over and over, dlr Lexicon, Dublin, curator Rowan Sexton
When the Ceiling Meets the Floor, The Lab, Dublin, curator Sheena Barrett
2014: Something about Some Thing to do with Paint, The MAC, Belfast, curator Hugh Mulholland
2007: SHIFT, Stone Gallery, Dublin, curator Cleo Fagan
2006: AINT, Draiocht, Dublin, curator Carissa Farrell
2005: Queen Street Gallery, Belfast
Group Exhibitions
2024: qss@40, Belfast, curator Eamonn Maxwell
Now + Then-40 Years of Belfast Exposed
2022: Uphold, Belfast
Royal Arcade Academy, Belfast
Future|Forward, qss, curator: Jane Marrow
GENERTATION22, Butler Gallery, KIlkenny, curator: Anna O'Sullivan
2021: UPHOLD, Household Belfast online gallery
N I N E Pocket Exhibition + Highbridge Gallery, Sligo
2020: 190th Annual Exhibition, RHA Gallery, Dublin
Penumbra, FE McWilliam Gallery, curator: Dr Riann Coulter + Dr Louise Wallace
How the Image Echos- Part II, Ulster University, Belfast
2019: MAKing Art: PAINTing, Draiocht Art Centre + Siamsa Tire, Dublin, curator: Sharon Murphy
How the Image Echos, PS2, Belfast
Art Car Boot Sale, Invited Artist, Russborough House, Wicklow
2018: Smiling, Sweating, and Resisting, CCA, Derry, curator: Catherine Hemelryk
After an Act, The GoldenThread Gallery, Belfast, curator: Peter Richards
Art Car Boot Sale, Invited Artist, Russborough House, Wicklow
188th RHA Annual Exhibition, Dublin
Made in Paint, Golden Foundation, New York
Unafraid- White, qss, Belfast, curator: Colin Darke
2017: Fully Awake, Glasgow
OPW collection exhibition, Armagh/Dublin
Nasty Women (Dublin), Pallas Studios
Peripheries, Gorey School of Art, curator: James Merrigan
187th RHA Annual Exhibition, Dublin
2016: Artbox Bazaar, Dublin
Mirror, Independent Studios, Dublin/London
Studio Members Exhibition, qss, Belfast
Veins, Molesworth Gallery, Dublin, curators; Prendergast & Moor
Eigse Arts Festival, Carlow, selectors: Annie Fletcher, Claire Feeley, Emma Lucy O'Brien
186th RHA Annual Exhibition
2015: What is and What Might be, The Highlanes Gallery, curators; Aoife Ruane, Colin Martin, Cliodhna Shaffrey
2014: Persona, ArtBox Project Space, Dublin, curator Hilary Murray
The Trouble with Painting, The Pumphouse Gallery, London, curator Hannah Conroy
Essays for the House of Memory, Ormston House, Limerick, curator Haizea Barcenilla
2013: Three Degrees of Painting, Solstice Art Centre, curator Carissa Farrell
Detonate, Limerick, curator Michele Horrigan
Stranger/Stranger, The Complex, Dublin
2012: Urban Interventions, NCAD/UCD/DCC, Grafton St, Dublin
2011: Airport for Shadows, Cross Gallery, Dublin, curator Mark St. John Ellis
Consellations, Eigse, Carlow, curator Emma Lucy O’Brien
Blue, SOMA, Waterford, curator Rachael Corcoran and Paul Hallahan
Connections, Red/Rua, Dublin, curator Hugh McCarthy
2010: Irish Pavilion, World Expo, Shanghai, China, curator James Ryan
Connections, RED/RUA, Dublin, curator Hugh McCarthy
2009: New Traditions, Group Exhibition, Stone Gallery, Dublin, curator Anne Hendrick
2007: Iontas 07, Sligo Art Gallery
2003: EV+A’03, selected by Virginia Perez-Ratton
2002: Catalyst Arts, Group Show, Belfast
Awards/Residencies and Commissions
2024 Painting in the Expanded Field; a symposium, MTU, Cork
Artist Talk, Ulster University, Belfast
2023 Freelands Foundation Mentor, Belfast School of Art
2022 Agility Award, Collabration with Emma Roche, Goo
2021 Agility Award, Arts Council of Ireland
2020 Arts Council of Ireland Collection
In-Conversation with Mirjami Schuppert, Kunsthaus Dalhem, Berlin, Mar’20
2019 Culture Ireland Funding
Kildare Council Council, Arts Bursary
Invited speaker, Perceptions of Irish Culture, WIT, Mar’19
2018 Invited speaker, Riverbank Arts Centre, Kildare, Feb’18
2017 Shortlisted Art Panel- Stage 3, Infrastructure, Fingal County Council Public Art
Invited Speaker, Painting/Materiality, RHA School, Dublin, Nov’17
Invited artist response, IMMA Freud Project, Dublin
Invited Chair, Painting Now, VAI event, Fenderesky Gallery, Belfast
Art Grant Award, Kildare County Council
Short-listed artist, Suki Tea Prize, NI
Artist Residency, The Golden Foundation, NY, Feb/Mar’17
2016 VAI Get Together, Invited Speaker, IMMA, Dublin, Aug’16
Invited Speaker, Slow Motion: A Painting Symposium, UU, Belfast
PhD conference 2016, awarded presentation of excellence award
Invited participant in a documentary about Contemporary Irish Painting,
curated by James Merrigan and filmed/produced by Saskia Vermeulen
2015 Artist Talk, LSAD, Dec’15
In-conversation with Dougal McKenzie, dlrLexicon, Oct’15
What is and What might be, artist talk and workshop, July 15
Invited Speaker, Artists present, University of Ulster, Belfast
2014 Invited Speaker, The Place of Painting, Symposium, The Mac, Belfast
Artist Bursary Award, Kildare County Council
2013 Conference paper, Doubt and Visual Representation, UCC, Cork
Kildare County Councils, Arts Bursary
2012 Invited Speaker, PAINTTUBE, Symposium, NCAD, Dublin
2011 Habitation, curated project, Kildare County Council
Commission, St Mary’s Secondary School, Naas, Co. Kildare
Commission, St Franan’s Secondary School, Prosperous, Co.Kildare
2010 WARP, Artist Residency, Belgium
2009 Travel and Training Award, Arts Council of Ireland
DCR, Artist Residency, The Hague, Holland. June-July
2008 New York Research Trip, May-Aug
2007 Artist Panel, 2007-2008, IMMA
% for Art, Scoil an Linbh Iosa, Prosperous, Co. Kildare
2006 Artist in Residency, Driaocht, Dublin, June-Dec’06
Artist Bursary, Kildare County Council
2005 Tyrone Guthrie Centre, awarded from Kildare County Council
2004 Awarded General Art Award, Arts Council of N.I
2003 Irish Art Review, Most Promising Young Artist
2000 Cill Rialaig Artist Residency, Kerry
1997 Taylor Art Award, RDS, Dublin
Publication/ Reviews
Freatured Artist, Irish Arts Review, Winter'21
Wandering Things, Die Taagesspiegel, Berlin, March’20
Irish Culture Berlin, online interview, Jan’20
MAKing Art: PAINTing, Sara Muthi, VAI newsletter, May’19
MAKing Art: PAINTing, Jackie Ryan, April’19
After an Act, Slavka Sverakova, June’18
Artist response, Freud Project, IMMA
VAI- Painting edition, Sept’17
RHA Annual Exhibition 2017: A big, noisy, good natured show, The Irish Times, May’17
Others, Other-d and Otherness, Response to a Request, online journal, Dec’16
Visual Arts Round up, The Irish Times, Aidan Dunne, July’16
VAN, curated by James Merrigan, Spring 2016
BAM, Berlinartmagazine, Nov’15
What is and What might be, Shower of Kunst, May’15
Visual Arts Round up, Painters who break the rules, Aidan Dunne, The Irish Times, 05/05/15
When the Ceiling Meets the Floor, Eoin Dara,April 2015 (commissioned text)
Short texts…, Declan Long, June’15
The Dance, James Merrigan, Billion, May’15
Susan Connolly at the Mac, by Declan Long, June 2014 (commissioned text)
Something about Some Thing to do with Paint, by Slavka Serakova , May 2014
The Irish Art Review, ‘Three Degrees of Painting’, by Carissa Farrell, Winter 2013
Subjects on a painter, Online Journal
Studentszine.com, Issue 3, Open Submission Award, 2011
Connections, Sunday Irish Times, Culture Section, Cristin Leach, 1 May 2011
Expo 2010, China, feature artist
AIR, Someone’s Garden, Japan, Nov’09
Circa, Slavka SverakovaFeb’08
VAN, May’07
Irish Times, ‘Crossing spaces and structures’, by Aidan Dunne, Feb’07
Irish Times, ‘Dreamers in difficult spaces’, by Aidan Dunne, Jan’06
EV+A 2003, catalogue for exhibition selected by Virginia Perez-Ratton
The Sunday Business Post, ‘Gambling on art’s young talent’, Mar’03
Education
2014-2018 PhD candidate, Ulster University, Vice Chancellor’s Scholarship
2011-2013 NCAD, Art in the Contemporary World- MA, Dublin
2000-2002 University of Ulster-Belfast, Masters in Fine Art
1994-1998 Limerick School of Art and Design, Degree in Fine Art-Painting
1996: Académie Royale des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles, Belgium
Lecturing
2006- present: Lecturer and Course Leader, Visual Art Dept, WIT, Waterford
2017-2019: Assistant Lecturer, Painting Dept, Ulster University, Belfast
2007-2010: Associate Lecturer, Visual Art Practice-Painting, iadt, Dublin
2002-2003: Assistant Lecturer, Painting Dept, LSAD, Limerick