Born Cork, Ireland
Now lives and works in Belfast
Exhibitions
2013 Christmas Exhibition, Mullan gallery, Belfast
2013 'FIVE into FOUR', Oliver Sears Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
2013 Summer Exhibition, Mullan Gallery, Belfast, Northern Ireland
2013 'The Importance of West', The Lavit Gallery, Cork, Ireland
2013 'Classic & Contemporary',Erskine Hall & Coe, London.
2012 'Future Beauty' Portfolio , Critical Selection 2013, National Craft Gallery, Kilkenny, Ireland.
2012 Solo Exhibition, Erskine Hall & Coe, London
2012 SOFA Chicago (Sculpture, Objects, Functional Art) Navy Pier, Chicago, Il, U.S.A.
Represented by Erskine Hall & Coe, London.
2012 'In Situ', The Civic, Barnsley, Yorkshire, U.K. and (2013) The Djanogly Art Gallery, Lakeside Art Centre at Nottingham University, U.K.
2012 'My Place', The Bluecoat Display Centre, Liverpool, U.K.
2012 Collect, London, U.K. Represented By Erskine, Hall & Coe, London, U.K.)
2012 SOFA New York, U.S.A. Represented By Erskine, Hall & Coe, London, U.K.)
2012 'Dubh - A Dialogue in Black', Oliver Sears' Gallery, Dublin & (2011) AIHS, NYC, U.S.A.
2012 Ceramic Art London, Royal College of Art, London, U.K.
2011 'Duet', Joint exhibition with U.K. Ceramicist Jane Hamlyn @ The Biscuit Factory, Newcastle upon Tyne, U.K.
2011 'Dubh, A Dialogue in Black', AIHS, NYC, U.S.A.
2011 'transFORM', Ceramics Ireland Juried Exhibition
2011 Ceramics Ireland Annual Exhibition, Rathfarham Castle, Co. Dublin
2011 'fineEarth', Wandesford Quay Gallery, Cork.
2011 'Newcomers', OnLine Gallery, Hampshire, U.K.
2011 'Collect', Saatchi Galley, London. U.K.
2011 'Ceramic Art London', Royal College of Art, London, U.K.
2010 'Present, Contemporary Craft',Sarah Myerscough Fine Art, London, U.K.
2010 Design Miami/Basel, Miami,Florida,U.S.A.
2010 'Black', Leach Pottery Museum, St. Ives, Cornwall, U.K.
2010 'Material Poetry', American Irish Historical Society, New York, NY, U.S.A.
2010 'Origin', Old Spitalfields Market,London, U.K.
2010 Summer Exhibition, Galerie Besson, London, U.K.
2010 'Positive Space', Joint exhibition with fellow Cork artist Nuala O'Donovan,
Wandesford Quay Gallery, Cork.
2010 'Womens' Work', Gallerytop, Derbyshire, U.K.
2010 'Portfolio', National Craft Gallery, Kilkenny
2010 'Collect', Saatchi Gallery, London
2010 'Art of Clay', Zozimus Gallery, Dublin
2010 'Thrown’, Ceramics selected by Sara Flynn', Lavit Gallery, Cork
2010 'Sculptural Ceramics', Open Eye Gallery, Edinburgh
2010 ‘Black and Gold’, Platform Gallery, Lancashire, U.K.
2010 Ceramic Art London, Royal College of Art, London, U.K.
2009 ‘Bowls’, Le Lavoir, Paris
2009 ‘Distinction’, Manchester Craft & Design Centre, U.K.
2009 ‘Origin’, Somerset House, London, U.K.
2009 ‘Virtuoso’, SDC Gallery, London. U.K.
2009 ‘Organic Geometry’, National Craft Gallery, Kilkenny.
2009 ‘50’, Bluecoat Display Centre, Liverpool, U.K.
2008 ‘Realisations’, AIHS, New York, U.S.A.
2008 ‘Origin’, Somerset House, London. U.K.
2008 ‘NCG @ SOFA Chicago’, Chicago, Il, U.S.A.
2008 ‘Clay & Four’, Doswell Gallery, Rosscarbery, Co.Cork.
2008 ‘Portfolio’, Bluecoat Display Centre, Liverpool, U.K.
2008 ‘You’ll Never Walk Alone’, National Craft Gallery, Kilkenny.
2007 ‘NCG @ SOFA Chicago’, Chicago, Il, U.S.A.
2007 ‘Side by Side’, Hunt Museum, Limerick.
2007 The Stour Gallery, Shipston on Stour, England.
2007 ‘Seomra’, SEMA, Paris. France.
2007 ‘Ballade Irlandaise’, Galerie Embargo, Paris, France.
2006 ‘Internationally Local’,Keane on Ceramics, Kinsale.
2006 ‘Collectors Event’, Hunt Museum, Limerick.
2006 ‘Collect@NCG’, National Craft Gallery, Kilkenny.
2005 ’Collectors Event’, Hunt Museum, Limerick.
2005 ‘Not Just Pots!’, National Museum of Ireland.
2005 ‘Element’, Garter Lane Arts Centre, Waterford.
2005 ‘Review 00-04’, National Craft Gallery, Kilkenny.
2005 ‘RED’. The Old Sorting Office, Barnes , London. U.K.
2005 ‘Forty Shades of Green’, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork
2004 ‘Collect@NCG’, National Craft Gallery, Kilkenny.
2002 ‘Of Colour in Craft’, National Craft Gallery, Kilkenny.
2002 ‘Irish Designers @ Habitat’, Habitat, Dublin.
1998 ‘Ceramics’, West Cork Arts Centre, Skibbereen.
Selected Maker - Crafts Council of Ireland ‘Portfolio’ - each year since 2006
Publications:
Ceramic Review - Jan/Feb 2013 (Interview by Angus Stewart)
Irish Arts Review - Nov/Dec 2012 (Interview by Frances McDonald)
‘Ceramics – Art & Perception’, Sept ‘09
‘la revue de la Ceramique et du Verre’, July/August 2007
‘NCG – Review, 2000 – 2004’, CCOI Publication
Invited Demonstrator
2010, 2011, 2012 Ceramics Ireland International Festival University of Ulster
Awards
2005 C.C.O.I. Research and Development Award
2007 C.C.O.I. Travel Bursary Award 2006,
2010 Peter Brennan Pioneering Potter, Ceramics Ireland Award
International Residencies -
2013 Liverpool (U.K.), 6 week residency at Hope University in partnership with the Bluecoat Display Centre and supported by The Crafts Council of Ireland.
2011 FULE International Ceramic Art Museums, Fuping, China, 4 week residency, 1 of 13 Irish Makers
Invited speaker -
Panel discussion at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum of America, 2010
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