Education
2010-12 MFA, National College of Art and Design, Dublin
2008 BA, Fine Art, (Paint), First Class Honours, GMIT, Galway
2007 BA Art and Design (Distinction), GMIT, Castlebar Co. Mayo.
Selected/curated exhibitions
2017 Cairde Annual, The Model, Sligo.
2015 Eigse Carlow 2015. Visual Carlow, Co. Carlow. Curator: Lewis Biggs, former artistic director of Liverpool Biennale and director of Tate Liverpool.
2013 COE ’13, Claremorris, Co. Mayo. Curator: Andrew Wilson, Curator of Modern Art and Contemporary British Art at Tate Britain.
2013 NextChapter, BOCS, 20 Castle Street, Caernarfon, Wales, UK. Curator: Sabina McMahon,
2012 NCAD MFA @ Boyle Arts Festival, Co. Roscommon. Selected MFA graduates.
2011 COE ’11, Claremorris, Co. Mayo. Curator: Chris Hammond, artist, curator and Lecturer at Goldsmiths College, London.
2010 COE ’10, Claremorris, Co. Mayo. Curator: Lisa le Feuvre, co-curator of the 2010 British Art Show, 7
2010 eva International: Biennial of Visual Art, Limerick City, Ireland. Curator: Elizabeth Hatz, Professor of Architecture at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
2009 COE ’09, Claremorris, Co. Mayo. Curator: Tom Morton, Hayward Galleries, Southbank Centre, London, co-curator of British Art Show,7.
2009 RHA Annual Exhibition, Gallagher Gallery, Dublin.
2009 This must be the place: Art Swap, presented by Monster Truck Gallery at the Irish Museum of Contemporary Art, Dublin. Curated by Paul Murnaghan and Sally Timmons.
2009 Eigse Carlow. Annual Exhibition. Curator: Marie Hanlon, artist at Rubicon Gallery, Dublin
2008 RDS Student Art Awards Exhibition, The Concert Hall, RDS, Dublin.
2008 RDS Student Art Awards, Traveling Exhibition, The Alley Arts Centre, Strabane, Co. Tyrone.
Solo shows
2017 Untitled, 3wallsgallery, Stoneybatter, Dublin.
2010 Did you mean fir tree, The Cross Gallery 59 Francis St., Dublin
2009 one hundred sweets no mushrooms. Market House Gallery, Mullingar Art Centre, Mullingar, Co. Westmeath
2003 Plenty,The Atrium Gallery, Longford Town, Co. Longford.
Group shows
2012 NCAD MFA Graduate Exhibition, SteamBox, School Street, Dublin.
2011 Invited artists at the Cross Gallery, 59 Francis St., Dublin
2011 MFA Interim exhibition, various venues, Francis St, Dublin.
2010 Invited Artists at the Cross Gallery, 59 Francis St., Dublin
2009 G126 Exchange Show, Catalyst Arts, Belfast. Annual Members Show, G126, Galway.
2008 Christmas Show, thisisnotashop, Dublin.
2008 Degree Show. GMIT, Galway.
2007 Home Ground, Mullingar Art Centre, Mullingar, Co. Westmeath.
2006 Degree Show, GMIT, Castlebar, Co. Mayo.
2006 12 Degrees, Linenhall Art Centre, Castlebar, Co. Mayo.
2006 Home Ground,Mullingar Art Centre, Mullingar, Co. Westmeath.
Awards
2008 Shortlisted for the RDS James White Award for excellence in painting.
2006 Linenhall Art Centre, Castlebar, Student of the year Award: GMIT, B.A.F.A.(Paint
Selected Bibliography/Artist talks.
2014 a 1,000 Living Painters, indexed in online research project.
2014 Saatchi Art, Neutral Territory. Selection by Rebecca Wilson, Curator at Saatchi Gallery.
2013 Andrew Wilson, Curator of Modern and Contemporary British Art at Tate Britain. Curator of COE ’13, Claremorris Open Exhibition, Co. Mayo, Ireland. Essay in COE’13 Catalogue.
2013 In conversation with Sabina McMahon, Curator of Next Chapter. Artists talk at BOCS, 20 Castle Street, Caernarfon, Wales, UK.
2012 …after the fact. Essay by Barry Keogh, Art in the Contemporary World. A response to the NCAD Masters in Fine Art/Art in the Digital World graduate exhibition, 2012.
2010 Eva International: Biennial of Visual Art, Limerick City, Ireland, 2010. Catalogue essay by curator Elizabeth Hatz, Professor of Architecture at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden.
2010 David Brancaleone, Limerick School of Art and Design. ‘Eva Various Venues, Limerick’ Enclave Review magazine: Issue1, Summer 2010.
2010 Michaële Cutaya, Circa Magazine, Contemporary Art in Ireland. 2010, ‘Claremorris Open Exhibition, September 2010.
Work in collections
Office of Public Works, Dublin
The collection of the President of Ireland (Dr. Mary Robinson)
Mr. and Mrs. P. Benetzes, Washington. DC, USA, private collection.
In other private and corporate collections in Ireland, England, USA and New Zealand.
Publications
2016 Fresh Paint Magazine, Issue 15, October 2016, featured.
2013 Claremorris Open, catalogue
2012 Painttube, A network of painting practitioners.
2012 NCAD Research and Postgraduate Yearbook
2011 Claremorris Open, Catalogue
2010 ev+a limerick, catalogue
Claremorris Open, Catalogue
2009 Claremorris Open, catalogue
RHA 179th Annual Exhibition, catalogue
Eigse Carlow Arts Festival catalogue
2008 RDS Students Awards, RDS Concert Hall, Dublin, catalogue .
Degree Show, GMIT, Galway, (Final Yr.), catalogue.
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