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Biography

My early art career began on the streets of Dublin carrying out anarchic graffiti attacks on derelict properties around the city. I went on to enrol at a local art school … from which I dropped out at an early stage, not being enamoured with the school’s governance.  So I took to the road travelling around Europe, working migrant seasonal jobs, moving briefly to London joining the squatting scene and all that that entailed. I was restless, yet developing a life story, and itching to create. So back in Dublin I began attending the National College of Art and Design taking life drawing, and print-making classes in the evenings and picking up some film editing and camera skills along the way. In due course the college hired me as their Image Librarian tasked with a digitisation programme and some digital asset management.  This led to a digital preservation project in the archives of the National Irish Visual Art Library, at which time I began exhibiting my own artwork – paintings and etchings, in earnest. Eventually I set up and ran a gallery of my own, all the while painting and learning. The skills I acquired over time have now coalesced to form my current work. This website documents selected work from across those years. The story continues.

Solo Exhibitions
2019
‘The Windward Mark’ – National Maritime Museum, Dublin, IRL
2015
‘Forms of Complicity’ – Steambox Gallery, Independent Museum of Contemporary Art, Dublin, IRL
2010
‘The Improbable Portrait’ – SolArt Gallery, Dublin, IRL

Group Exhibitions
2016
‘Ice Tuxedo’ – Schwartz Gallery, London, UK

2015
‘Strangers; Our Selves’ – Steambox Gallery, Independent Museum of Contemporary Art, Dublin, IRL
‘Quantum Leap’ – Foundation15 in association with the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Offaly, IRL
‘Chromatic’ – Linus Art Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
‘HUE’ – Hive Emerging, Waterford, IRL
‘POP Living’ – Schwartz Gallery, London, UK

2014
‘Autumn & the Perpetual Machine’ – Independent Museum of Contemporary Art, Dublin, IRL

2013
‘Hot One Hundred’ – Schwartz Gallery, London, UK
‘BIMPE VII’ – University of British Colombia, B.C., CAN
SNAP Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta, CAN

2012
Annual Exhibition, Royal Ulster Academy, Belfast, UK
‘BIMPE VII’ – Federation Gallery, Vancouver B.C., CAN
Studio 10, Falmouth, Cornwall, UK
The Poly Arts Centre, Falmouth, Cornwall, UK

2011
‘NSA Print’ – The Exchange Gallery, Penzance, Cornwall, UK
‘Open Portrait’ – Royal Birmingham Society of Artists, Birmingham, UK
Etching and Intaglio Exhibition, Belfast Print Workshop, Belfast, UK
Annual Exhibition, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, IRL
Annual Exhibition, Royal Ulster Academy, Belfast, UK
Autumn Exhibition, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol, UK
Annual Open, Clinton Centre Gallery, Fermanagh, UK

2010
Annual Exhibition, CEAD, National College of Art and Design, Dublin, IRL
‘Imagine’ – Waterford Arts Festival, various venues, Waterford, IRL
A4 Print, Open Space Galleries, Penryn, Cornwall, UK