Selected Awards
2023 Artlinks Award
2021 Arts Council Bursary Award
2021 Arts Council Agility Award
2020 M.A. Graduate Resident Award, 12 months – M.A.A.P, CIT
2019 12 month M.A. artist in residence – Crawford College of Art & Design
IMMA summer school bursary
2018 10 month Graduate Residency Glass – CCAD
3 month Residency – National Sculpture Factory
Purchase Awards – Cork Institute of Technology & Eli Lilly
Fledglings exhibition – Lavitt Gallery, Cork
Shortlisted – Visual Art – Global Undergraduate Awards
Shortlisted – Thesis – Global Undergraduate Awards
2015 Artist in residence – St Mary’s National school
COVID Undertakings
Verso Art Project – Online
Artist in conversation with Ciara Rodgers, Garter Lane, on-line
Short listed for Public art commission (Collaboration) – Ennis,
Short listed for Public art commission (Collaboration) – Charleville
Mosaic project, Deise Women’s Shed
Playground Art, St, Mary’s National School, Dungarvan
Selected Exhibitions
2023. Commuovere, Birr Vintage Festival, Co.Offaly
Streetscape, (wall murals), Tallow, Co.Waterford
2022 Drawing Connections, Lord Mayor Pavilion, Cork City
Locked in Locked up, Portlaoise Prison, Co. Laois
2021 Pluid Project – COVID comfort blanket – Farmleigh, Phoenix Park
2020 Lismore Castle Arts COVID Moments photography
Searching identity – 360 Cookhouse, Dungarvan, Co. Waterford
Sculpture in Context, Botanical Gardens, Dublin (Cancelled)
Solo Exhibition, Art Centre, Dungarvan, Co. Waterford (Postponed)
2019 PUSH – MA Exhibition, 46 Grande Parade Gallery, Cork
Collected Works, Mason, Hayes & Curran, Barrow Street, Dublin 4
Intervention, What will the dogs eat? – IMMA, Dublin
Seen, Not Heard – Crawford Gallery, Cork
Unsettle all things – 46 Grande Parade, Cork
In Print – Barcelona, Spain
2018 IRON R18, – National Sculpture Factory, Cork
Fledglings, – Lavitt Gallery, Wandesford Quay, Cork
See Saw, – Degree Show – Crawford College, Cork
Selected Community Collaborations
2022. Enterprise Centre, Tallow, Co. Waterford
2021 ChapelHill School of Art – Macroom
Mosaic project – Deise Women’s Shed
2020 Creativity and Change
Paste up – Activism and Change – Nationwide
2015 Women’s Traveller Support Network, Dungarvan
Traveller Pride week & St. Patrick’s Day Parade
2015 Student Mothers – Dungarvan, Finding your own identity
2014 Suicide Prevention – Dungarvan
2014 Gateway Project (Early School Leavers Job Seeker Project)
2014 Treo Project (Ex-Offenders Community Project)
2013 Deise Day Care Centre & St. Mary’s National School
(Book Project of intergenerational shared experiences)
2013 Reading Buddies Scheme (Bi Lingual creative reading programme)
Linking retired community members into primary schools. Project is still
running (2020)
Collections
Public Cork Institute of Technology, collection
Heritage Centre, Skibbereen, Co. Cork
Waterford Arts Office
Corporate Mayson, Hayes & Curran Solicitors, Dublin
Eli Lilly, Cork
Paul Flynn, The Tannery Restaurant, Dungarvan, Waterford
Private Portraits, Paintings and Sculptures held in a number of private collections in Canada, United States, UK, Wales and Ireland
Education
2019 M.A. Art and Process (first class hons)– Fine Art – CCAD – CIT
2018 B.A. Hons Contemporary Applied Art (First)– Crawford College Art & Design
2014 FETAC 6 (Distinction)– Art & Design – Dungarvan College of Further
Education
I also hold a BA in primary teaching, a Higher Certificate in psychotherapy and am trained in Restorative Practices and Conflict Mediation. All of which inform my practice.