Resume
Education
04
MFA
Visual Arts.
Bennington College,
Vermont, USA
01
BA(hons)
Fine Art Sculpture.
Winchester
School
of Art, Hampshire, UK
Solo Shows
13
Signal
Art Centre, Bray, Wicklow.
13
Aras
Inis Gluaire, Belmullet, Mayo
12
Watergate
Theatre, Kilkenny
11
To
Whom it May Concern. Camden Palace, Cork.
10
Threads,
Outlaw Studios &
Gallery, Cork.
09
Lab
life time learning, Cork City.
Audio installation.
08
Flight
into Fantasy, Athy Library,
Co. Kildare.
05
SAW
(Salem Art Works) Upstate New York. USA.
Site-specific installation.
Group Shows
11
Art
Trail in the Elysian, Cork City
11
Outlaw Studios, Cork City
11
On
the
threshold hold of everything, inside
and out. Tactic, Cork.
11
Clyne
Gallery, Temple Bar, Dublin.
10
The
Gallows, Art in Production, Old Ford assembly line. Cork.
09
Outlaw
Studios, Cork City.
09
Landfill
Art Project, Pennsylvania.
USA.
International Group Show
09
The
Vagina Monologues, Cork City and
hinterland. Performance
08
Sculpture
for New Orleans, Louisiana,
USA. International
Group
Show
08
North
Bennington Sculpture Park, Vermont. USA.
08
Generation
6 . A.I.R Gallery, Chelsea. New York City, USA.
07
SAW
(Salem Art Works), Upstate New York. USA.
07
North
Bennington Sculpture Park, Vermont, USA.
07
Green
Mountain Girls Show. Art
at 196 N. Main
St., Salem, Upstate New York. USA.
06
SAW
(Salem Art Works), Upstate New York. USA.
06
70
Beekman Art Gallery, Saratoga Springs. Upstate New York. USA
06
North
Bennington Sculpture Park, Vermont. USA.
04
North
Bennington Sculpture Park, Vermont. USA.
Site-specific installation.
04
MFA
Show, Usdan Gallery, Bennington College, Vermont. USA
04
Skokie
Sculpture Park, Chicago. Illinois. USA.
03
‘Boundaries’
site-specific exhibition, Rutland Carving Studio. Vermont. USA
03
Franconia
Sculpture Park, Minnesota.USA.
03
North
Bennington Sculpture Park, Vermont.USA.
03
Hamletmachine
- casted as Ophelia by director Keith Thompson. New York
02
Pride
of the Valley Sculpture Park, Surrey, UK.
Biography
The desire to put up a shelf, brought me thru the boat building and
furniture
making industries, showing me its beauty, weakness and strengths of
wood. My
time at Winchester School of Art opened up my knowledge of materials
and my own
personal language. After my internship
at Franconia Sculpture park I
continue to work in steel
interrupted by multi
material installations. After my Masters, I worked in New York as an
architectural mould builder, helping to repair New York after 9 11. I
work from
blueprints, made the pattern, moulded the pattern using plaster, gypsum
and
burlap. Working 20 stories up on scaffold pulling rubber moulds of the
building
was a kicker. My last installation before leaving the states was five
life size
dressing “running” across a park. Over the next 3
months
the paper dissolved,
leaving the buttons and stitching embedded in a thin layer of clear
resin.
Having
skills and the wiliness to learn a new
allows me the freedom of “not always thinking in
steel”. All
materials are heavy with
meaning and history which I use
to “flesh” the bones of my own narrative.