Question 1

SELECTED HONOURS & AWARDS

Accepted Answer

2024 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

Question 2

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

Accepted Answer

2024 Open Space, Sím 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.

Question 3

SELECTED PUBLIC ART INSTALLATIONS & COMMISSIONS

Accepted Answer

2020 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

Question 4

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY & PUBLICITY

Accepted Answer

2024 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

Question 5

SELECTED RESIDENCIES

Accepted Answer

2024/25 The National Sculpture Factory Project Residency Award.
2024 Sím 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.

Question 6

EDUCATION

Accepted Answer

2023 - 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