Residencies
2025
Live Art Ireland, Season of the Witch, Workshop and Residency
Borrisokane Co. Tipperary
2025
Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Student Artist Award Residency
Ballycastle Co. Mayo
Education
2024-26
MA Creative Practice, ATU Sligo, (In progress)
2020-24
BA(Hons.) Fine Art, ATU Sligo, (First)
2009-11
Art, Craft and Design Major Award, Ballaghaderreen GRETB, (Distinction)
Exhibitions
Forthcoming
2026
Solo exhibition, The Ballinglen Gallery, Ballycastle
Past
2025
MA Creative Practice Showcase ATU Sligo
2025
Ballaghaderreen Summer Exhibition ’25
Featuring Painting &Sculpture by Selected Art Graduates 2022, 2023 &2024
2024
BA (Hons) Graduate Showcase ATU Sligo
2023
BallaghDream Arts Fest, Group Exhibition, Ballaghaderreen
2023
BA Graduate Showcase ATU Sligo
2011
Ballaghaderreen Community Art Group Exhibition
2010
Ballaghaderreen Community Art Group Exhibition
Awards
2025
Artists Bursary Programme 2025 Grant
Roscommon County Council
2024
Ballinglen Arts Foundation, Student Artist Award
(Winner)
2024
ATU Sligo Award for Highest Overall Achievement
BA (Hons) Fine Art, (Winner)
2024
RDS Visual Art Award, (Longlisted)
2023
RDS Visual Art Award, (Longlisted)
Commissions
2024
3 of Arts
Creative Places Ballaghaderreen Collaborative Arts Commission 2024
2017
Logotype EROC Ballaghaderreen, Department of Justice
2017
Interactive Welcome Wall for Refugees, Ballaghaderreen EROC (Emergency Reception and Orientation Centre)
2016
Logotype Ballaghaderreen Community Garden
2011
Logotype Ballaghaderreen Community Art Group
Publications
2025
Scrimshaw- Journal of New Writing and Visual Art Volume Four
ATU Sligo
Inclusion of two poems
2024
Scrimshaw- Journal of New Writing and Visual Art Volume Three
ATU Sligo
Inclusion of one poem and one Collage
Work experience
1999-2020
Family Carer, for Daughter with ASD
1990-1999
Exhibition Mediator, Historical Museum, Gotland, Sweden
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