1956 Born, Co. Limerick, Ireland.
1978 Graduated from Limerick College of Art & Design, Diploma in Fine Art
2003 Elected member of Royal Hibernian Academy
2006 Elected member of Aosdana
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2007 Mullan gallery Belfast, Belfast Festival at Queens Event
2007 From Bethany to Beacon Falls, Rubicon Gallery Dublin
2006 Coastline Narratives, Art First London
2005 Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick
Vangard Gallery, Cork
Landfall Variations, Rubicon Gallery Dubln
2004 Not Only Forms, Rubicon Gallery, Dublin
2003 Paintings from the Red Mill, Art First, London
2002 Art First, London
2001 Rubicon Gallery, Dublin
2000 Art First, London
1999 Rubicon Gallery, Dublin
1998 Vangard Gallery, Co. Cork
1997 Rubicon Gallery, Dublin
1996 Clink Wharf Gallery, London
1995 Rubicon Gallery, Dublin
1993 Rubicon Gallery, Dublin
1991-1992 Touring Exhibition (Drawings) - Limerick City Gallery of Art; West Cork Arts Centre, Co. Cork;
Garter Lane, Waterford; Butler Gallery, Kilkenny; Siamsa Tire, Tralee; The Arts Centre, Galway
1980 Ghosts ’79-’80, Lincoln Gallery, Dublin (Drawings)
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2007 Into Landscape Touring exhibition of drawings by artists – various locations Ireland
RHA Annual Exhibition also 2006, 2005, 2004, 2002, 2001, 2000
2006 Boyle Arts Festival Exhibition. King House, Boyle also 05,04
Siar 50, Irish Contemporary Art Society collections at IMMA
2005 Rhyme and Resin, a collaboration between poets and artists. Organised by Poetry Ireland.
RHA Members Drawing Exhibition Ashford Gallery , Dublin
2004 H2o, Model Arts Centre and Niland Gallery
Time of Shaking, Art for Amnesty Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
An Irish Eye; Landscapes of Fact and Imagination, Cape Town South Africa
2003 Eire/land, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, USA
Reflecting on Success - Past Winners Claremorris Open Exhibition
2002 Mullan Gallery, Belfast
Starting a Collection, Art First, London
Art London, Art First, London
1999 Starting a Collection, Art First, London
Primal Means Belltable Art Centre, Limerick; West Cork Arts Centre, Skibberreen
Vangard Gallery, Cork
1998 Art First, Three-Person Show, London (Gwen O'Dowd & Janet Pierce)
1997 Landscape & Recollection, The Ballinglen Experience, RHA Gallagher Gallery
Clink Wharf Gallery, London
Art Club Burgwedel e. V. Hannover, Germany (work from Ireland & Scotland)
Eigse Festival, Carlow (Invited Artist)
1996 National Collection of Contemporary Drawing, Limerick City Gallery of Art
Living Landscape, West Cork Arts Centre, Skibereen
Connaught Brown Gallery, London
1994 Coram Gallery, London
1990 Three-Person Show, Riverrun Gallery, Dublin (Michael Quane & Ian Sutherland)
1984-88 Divisions, Crossroads, Turns of Mind, Some New Irish Art, touring exhibition of North America, Canada and Finland - curated by Lucy Lippard
1984 Three-Person show, Lincoln Gallery, Dublin (Marc Reilly & Tony Carroll)
Three Realists Peacock Gallery, Craigavon
1983 EV+A Prizewinners Exhibition, Dublin, Belfast and Limerick
1982 GPA Awards Exhibition, Dublin & 1981
1979 Three Person Exhibition, Stone Art gallery, Spiddal
1979-1981 Exhitibtion in open exhibitions including; Irish Exhibition of Living Art;
Independent Artists Exhibition; EV+A Exhibition; Oireachtas Exhibition; Claremorris
Open Exhibition; Sculpture and Drawing Exhibition
SELECTED RESIDENCIES
2006 Josef Albers Foundation, CT. USA. Residency
2004 Cill Rialaig Project, Co. Kerry. Residency
2003 The Vermont Studio Centre, VT USA. Awarded Fellowship
1996 Ballinglen Arts Foundation Co. Mayo. Awarded Fellowship
1995 Annamakerrig, Tyrone Gutherie Centre Residency
COLLECTIONS
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; Limerick City Gallery, Limerick; The Arts Council/ An Chomhairle Ealaoine;
The Contemporary Irish Arts Society; The Office of Public Works;
Allied Irish Banks; Baring Asset Management, London; KPMG, Dublin; Ulster Bank, Dublin;
National Drawing Collection, Limerick; Butler Gallery Collection, Kilkenny; First National Building Society;
Augustus Cullen & Sons Solicitors; Irish Life Assurance; Ballinglen Arts Foundation;
Boyle Civic Collection; Limerick City University; Kelly's Hotel, Wexford; St Lukes Hospital;
St Patricks Hospital ; Royal Victoria Hospitals, Belfast.
Private Collections in Ireland UK Europe & USA
Mullan Gallery www.mullangallery.com
