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BIOGRAPHY
The Courthouse Studios,
Ennistymon, Co Clare, Ireland.
Tel: 065 7071630
thecourthouse@eircom.net
EDUCATION
1990
Degree in Professional Photography, D.I.T. Kevin Street, Dublin.
WORK EXPERIENCE
1994-1996
Teaching in the Burren College of Art, Ballyvaughan, Co Clare.
1991-1994
Teaching in Dun Laoghaire College of Art and Design, Dublin.
1986-1991
Photographer in Pieterse-Davison International Studio, Dublin.
1985-1986
Assistant Photographer in the National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
(* denotes a solo show)
2003
6 Irish Artists, various venues in Canada (exhibition exchange)
2002
The Courthouse Studios, Group Show, Glor Music Centre, Ennis, Co Clare.
Through Each Others' Eyes, Irish Cultural Centre, Phoenix, Arizona, USA
* Nature Morte, The Galway Arts Centre
2001
* Nature Morte and Other Stories, De Valera
Library Gallery, Ennis, Co Clare.
2000
Sheela-na-gig: Tracing the Walled Women, I Space Gallery, Chicago, USA
Leaving the Island: Pusan International Contemporary Art Festival, Pusan,
Korea.(curated by Rosa Martinez, Hou Hanru and Young Chul Lee)
Friends and Neighbours, EV+A 2000, Limerick City Gallery of Art, (curated
by Rosa Martinez)
Through Each Others Eyes, City Hall, Phoenix, Arizona, USA
In/sight, De Valera Library Gallery and The Courthouse Studios, Ennistymon,
Co Clare
1999
Claremorris Open Exhibition, Co Mayo
1998
* Comhluadar, Ballyvaughan, Co Clare.
Postmark International, Artspace, New Haven, Connecticut, USA. (invited show)
Scoip '98, Siamsa Tire, Tralee, Co Kerry (curated by Hugh Mulholland)
1997
Inspiration Ireland, Steinfurt, Germany (with Rita Wobbe)
Scoip '97, Siamsa Tire, Co Kerry (curated by Dorothy Walker)
1996
* The Village, Gotherburg Irish Festival, Sweden
* The Village, The Corridor Gallery, Co Armagh
Tributes, Queens Council on the Arts, New York, USA
1993
* Portraits of the Artists, The Irish Life
Exhibition Centre, Dublin
* Portraits of the Artists, The Linenhall Library, Belfast.
1991
* Selected Works, Westbury Gallery, Dublin
A Year in the Life of Trinity College, The Atrium, Trinity College, Dublin
GRANTS
2000
Arts Grant from Clare Co Council.
Equipment/Materials Grants from The Arts Council.
Artflight from The Arts Council
1999
Bursary from The Arts Council
Equipment/Materials Grants from The Arts Council
1998
Equipment/Materials Grants from The Arts Council
Artflight from The Arts Council
1996
Artflight from The Arts Council
COMMISSIONS
2001
The Burren Centre, Kilfenora, Co Clare: photographic installation and
slide show for new visitors' centre.
1999
The Scattering, Millenium Book Project.
1998/99
Through Each Others' Eyes/ Suil Suil Eile: cultural and photographic exchange
programme between sister-cities Ennis and Phoenix, Arizona, USA
1996
burren eXposure: audio-visual installation at the Whitethorn, Ballyvaughan,
Co Clare.
PUBLICATIONS AND MEDIA
Ian Wieczorek, review, The Irish Times, January 17, 2002
Ian Wieczorek, review, Art Bulletin, Feb/March, 2002
The Book of the Burren: Tir Eolas Publications 2002
"Don Roaming", Channel 4, programme on the Burren, November 2001
The Clare Champion, artists' exhibition', November 30, 2001
Friends and Neighbours: EV+A 2000 exhibition catalogue
PICAF: Leaving the Island, exhibition catalogue 2000
The Scattering: Emmigrant Images of an Irish County: November 2000
In/sight, exhibition catalogue, November 2000
Margaret Hawkins, 'Challenging Popular Perception', Chicago Sun-Times, September
22, 2000
Jenny Southlynn, 'When God was a Woman', The Octopus, September 15-21, 2000
Michael Weinstein, New City, Chicago, September 28, 2000
Art Bulletin, cover image, April/May 2000
Mic Moroney, 'A pig and a poke', The Guardian, May 13, 2000
Aiden Dunne, EV+A review, The Irish Times, March 14, 2000
Ray Conway, article on The Scattering, Ireland of the Welcomes, Sept/Oct 2000
Force 10: An Irish Journal, 1997,1998,1999
Kinvara, A Seaport Town on Galway Bay: Tir Eolas Publications 1999
Claire Schneider, review on 'Scoip '98', Circa, Autumn 1998
Emer Hughes, 'Artists help save Georgian Courthouse', article, The Sunday
Business Post, May 31 1998
Alice Lyons, review on 'Response', Circa, July 1997
MEMBERSHIP
The Association of Artists in Ireland
COLLECTIONS
Private collections in Germany, USA, Australia, England and Ireland.
