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SELECTED HONOURS & AWARDS2024 Arts Council of Ireland Visual Arts Project Award Strand 1 2024 European Union Culture Moves Mobility Grant implemented by the Goethe Institute. 2024 Cork City Council Research and Development Project Scheme. 2023 Business to Arts Best Creativity in the Workplace supported by ESB 2023 The CARO Climate Action Award 2023 The Halpin-Hellier Sculpture in Context Award National Botanic Gardens 2023 Arts Council of Ireland Visual Arts Bursary 2023 Cork City Council Arts Office Individual Artist Bursary Award 2022 Arts Council of Ireland Visual Arts Project Award 2021 Lifelong Learning Award 2021 Arts Council of Ireland Agility Award 2021 Jill Scott Memorial Award 2020 BioMarin/NSF Percent for Art Commission Award 2020 Cork City Council Project Bursary 2020 DLR Lexicon Exhibition Award 2019 Creative Ireland & the Department of Education Bursary 2018 Gilead Sciences Public Art Commission 2017 Arts Council of Ireland Travel and Training Bursary Award 2016 Valery Gleeson Development Bursary 2015 Winner of RDS Taylor Art Award 2015 Program Winner of The Undergraduate Awards 2015 National Sculpture Factory Graduate Residency Award 2015 Honourable Mention, the London Creative Awards 2015 CIT Crawford Graduate Residency Award 2015 Cork City Arts Council Purchase Prize 2015 Cork Institute of Technology Purchase Prize 2014 Shortlisted for the RDS Taylor Art Award 2012 Simon Norfolk Photography Masterclass Award
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SELECTED EXHIBITIONS2024 Open Space, SÃm Korpúlfsstaðir, Iceland 2023 Sculpture in Context, Selected Group Exhibition, National Botanic Gardens, Dublin 2023 Holdings, Selected Group Exhibition, Solstice Arts Centre, Meath. 2023 Heirloom, Solo Exhibition, LHQ Cork County Council Buildings, Cork. 2022 Parklife: Biodiversity in Contemporary Irish Art, Selected Group Exhibition, Glucksman, Cork. 2022 Heirloom, Solo Exhibition, Lexicon Gallery, Dublin. 2020 ROOT, Project Earth, Virtual Exhibition, The Organic Centre, Leitrim. 2020 New Era, Selected Group Exhibition, Solstice Arts Centre, Meath. 2020 CONNECTED, Selected Group Exhibition Kilkenny Sculpture Trail, The National Craft and Design Centre. 2019 What is a Library?, Selected Group Exhibition SPARE ROOM, Former TSB Bank Vault, North Main St, Cork. 2019 The Voice of the Sea, Selected Group Exhibition, Sea Fisheries Protection Authority, Seafest. 2019 The Voice of the Sea, Selected Group Exhibition, Sea Fisheries Protection Authority, Seafest. 2018 Silvered, Solo Exhibition, Doswell Gallery, Cork. 2018 Terra Incognita, Selected Group Exhibition, Skibbereen Arts Festival, Cork. 2017 Locales, Selected Group Exhibition, Doswell Gallery, Cork. 2016 Material Nature, Solo Exhibition, Table, Brown Thomas, Cork. 2016 TWEETBOX- Collaborative Practice in Print, Selected Group Exhibition, Cork City Hall. 2016 Affective Entities, Selected Group Exhibition, Wandesford Quay Gallery, Cork. 2015 TWEETBOX, Touring Exhibition, China Academy of Art, Hanzau & Lismore Castle Arts. 2015 Iron R 2, Intensive iron casting workshop & exhibition, NSF, Cork. 2015 Promethean Illusions, Installation, RDS Student Art Awards, Royal Dublin Society 2015 A Blue Thread, Selected Group Exhibition, Sarah Walker Gallery, Castletownbere, Cork. 2015 Deconstructing Demeter, Installation, RDS National Student Awards, The Bourn Vincent Gallery 2015 We Do Not Leave Pyramids, Degree show, Crawford College of Art and Design, Cork. 2014 Things/Daiktai, Wandesford Quay Gallery, Collaboration with Kaunas Art Institute of Vilnius Academy of the Arts.
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SELECTED PUBLIC ART INSTALLATIONS & COMMISSIONS2020 The Giving Tree, BioMarin, Internal Artwork Commission and Public Engagement Project 2018 Salve, Gilead Sciences, External Artwork Commission 2018 Dream Forest, Art & Style, Brown Thomas, Installation for window, Cork. 2016 Harvest, Brown Thomas in collaboration with CREATE, Cork
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SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY & PUBLICITY2024 Podcast: The Warrior Artist, Eps: 21 2023 Feature: The Irish Times Art-and purpose align with environmentally focused creative partnerships. 2023 Podcast: Sparking Thoughts; Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council Arts Office, hosted by art writer and independent curator Diana Bamimeke. 2023 Feature: Tripe + Drisheen - Discovering the magic and power of seeds - Ellie O'Byrne 2021 Feature: University Times; Irish Artists Unite to Tackle Climate Change - 2019 Feature: Channel Nature Journal - Issue 1 – Cover Image & Feature 2018 Feature: Bloomers, Life Of Mine, Featured work; Landscape; Notes on origin and perspective by Rosin Foley. 2018 Feature: Irish Arts Review, Silvered, interview/article by Mark Ewart Autumn. 2017 Feature: Evening Echo, ‘Hats off to those lending a hand for Spike Island Play’, Interview; June. 2015 Feature: Visual Artists Ireland, Feature; RDS Visual Arts Award Winner, September 2015 Feature: Irish Arts Review RDS Visual Arts Award Winner, Autumn, Vol 32, Issue 3. 2015 Interview: Evening Echo- 'Its all about abstract for these Cork artists', interview/article by Colette Sheridan, August 18th 2015 Exhibition catalogue: RDS Student Art Awards 2015 Book: Stitch Stories: Personal Places, Spaces and Traces in Textile Art, Cas Holmes, published by Pavillion Books 2015 Exhibition catalogue: We Do Not Leave Pyramids, Degree Show 2015
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SELECTED RESIDENCIES2024/25 The National Sculpture Factory Project Residency Award. 2024 SÃm Artist-in-Residence Program, Iceland. 2022-23 Artist Laboratory - Selected site-specific research residency Devenish Lands at Dowth with Solstice Arts. 2020-22 Irish Seed Savers Association - Self-Directed residency and collaboration on Heirloom & Seed CLOUD project, Scarriff, Co. Clare 2017 Gallery Svalbard, site-specific research residency an Arctic based art institution, Longyearbyen, Svalbard. 2016 The National Sculpture Factory awarded residency through NSF graduate programme.
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EDUCATION2023 - 2024 PGDip Cultural Event Management, IADT Institute of Art, Design & Technology, Dublin. 2011 - 2014 BA Fine Art (Hons), CIT Crawford College of Art and Design, Cork 2010 - 2011 Art, Craft and Design, QQI Level 5 Fetac, Colaiste Stiofan Naofa, Cork
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