Artspace

The Blackbird Gallery,Kilkenny Arts Festival

'Chimera' Galway Arts Festival,GTI

'Night and Day',Norman VillaGallery,Galway (soloshow)

'Artspace 21' Revolving Door Exhibition at Artspace Studios,Tulca Exhibition of Visual Art

Tulca Festival of Visual Art Galway Airport&Taibhdhearc Theatre,Galway
Cuallacht International Art Project, Spanish Arch&City Hall, Galway
Clifden Community Arts Festival
Streets of Art – Art Trail,Galway Arts Festival
Quantum NUIG Galway

MAC 2000 Art Fair, Paris, France(solo show)

Millenium Images, WSCTC Seattle, USA

Women in Print, Pacific University, Seattle, USA

Summer Works, Artspace group show Dept of Art, Heritage, Gaeltacht and the Islands

AWARDS

1987 
Arts Council of Ireland grant aid

Arts Council of Ireland grant aid

Arts Council of Ireland flights

2000
Arts Council of Ireland flights

CRC Grant, Department of Arts, Sports and Tourism

Galway City council

My present work deals with the dual nature of the West of Ireland Landscape and the magical quality of its mystical islands, more specifically with the intimacy of the land, field, rocks, sheltering trees and residue of human presence versus the majesty of its natural elements, the wild winter sea the rolling howling winds the changing moods of the grey skies. These are all contained in my work but not necessary in a direct narrative way I often start by mapping my emotional response to the landscape through photography, quick studies and paintings. Then working from the studio, the impetus of the work evolves around the transformation of my initial emotional response into a spiritual one. I am working in a symbolist/expressionist manner bordering on abstraction. I experiment with mixed media such as pigments, inks and oils. Utilising natural materials like twigs and bog grass to draw. I use symbolic shapes as metaphors, for example Trees and leaves as destiny, flowers as fragility, crosses and tombs as memory, sacred mountains as spiritual transcendence. The tension in my work is derived from a northern restraint and a southern exuberance. I see art as functioning as a cathartic/human/emotional/ link between past, present and future.

RESIDENCIES

2002-2003

Cill Rialaig Project, Ballinskelligs, Co.Kerry.

2002

Cuallacht International Arts Project, Galway City Council

2000

Centrum Foundation
Fort Warden, Port Townsend,
Washington state, USA

Roundstone Arts festival, Connemara

Meeting-Rencontre-Begengnung, Galway

1997

Lugwigshafen, Begegnung-Meeting-Rencontre, Germany

1996


Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Lorient, Rencontre-Meeting-Begegnung, France

COLLECTIONS

Public
Galway County Council
Western Health Board
National University of Ireland, Galway

Radisson Hotel, Galway

Office of Public Works

L’Embarcadere, Lyon, France

Private
USA (Seattle and Philadelphia)

France (Paris, Lyon and Bordeoux)

Ireland (Galway, Limerick, Dublin and Belfast)