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Education

2007 – Present

Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig, Germany under professor Neo Rauch

2007

TestDaf Certificate (German as a Foreign Language)

German Language Course ,DID Deutsch-Institute, Berlin, Germany
(August and September)

2002 - 2006

Bachelor of Art Joint Honours Degree in History of Art and Fine Art Painting,
(First Class Honours) The National College of Art and Design, Dublin

 

Awards, Scholarships and Residencies

2008 – Present

Winner of two Honorary Awards at the 1st Montijo International Plastic Arts Biennial– IX Vespeira Prize, Portugal

Winner of the artistic projects tender at the Serralves em Festa 2008 in Oporto, Portugal (Awarded by the Curator Regina Guimarães)

DAAD Scholarship Extension, Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, Berlin, Germany

e v+ a Open Award, Limerick, Ireland. (Awarded by the Curator Hou Hanru)

Leipzig International Art Programme (LIA), The Spinnerei, Leipzig, Germany

2007

Travel and Mobility Award, Arts Council of Ireland, Dublin

DAAD Scholarship, Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst, Berlin, Germany

2006

Travel and Mobility Award, Arts Council of Ireland, Dublin

R.C. Lewis-Crosby Award for Painting at the Royal Dublin Society

CAP Foundation Residency Award, Lower Leeson Street, Dublin

(Selected by Linda Pilaro, Luke Clancy, Duncan McClaren and Neil Burke Kennedy)

Short-listed for Hennessy Craig Scholarship, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin

O’Sullivan Award for Graphic Art, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin

2005

Emerging Artist Award, Portrait Ireland, Wexford

Erasmus Exchange to Academie Minerva, Groningen

2004

Semi Finalist in Channel Five Big Art Challenge, England

Henry Higgins Travel Award, Royal Dublin Society

Thomas Dammann Travel Scholarship, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin

Markevicz Gold Medal Competition, Highly Commended

2003

Red Bull ‘Art of Can’- First Prize, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin

 

Exhibitions

2008

Solo Exhibition at the Leipzig International Art Programme (LIAp), Spinnerei, Leipzig (Opening 24th October)

Claremorris Open Exhibition, (Curated by Lizzie Carey Thomas) (Opening 6th September)

1st Montijo International Plastic Arts Biennial– IX Vespeira Prize, Portugal (Opening 14th August)

Leipzig International Art exhibition at Cavanacor Gallery in Donegal

Serralves em Festa 2008 in Oporto, Portugal

Rundgang, in der Leipzig International Art Programme (LIAp), Spinnerei, Leipzig

'Rundgang', Annual exhibition, at the Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig. 31st January - 3rd February

Verkaufsaktion "500 x X", 31st January, Academy of Visual Arts Leipzig.

e v+ a, Exhibition of Visual Art, Limerick, Ireland (Selected and Curated by Hou Hanru)

Short Films screened at Vastavirta Tampere, Finland

2007

Defragmented Thoughts screened at Galerie Schuster, Frankfurt, Germany

Paper illusions, screened at FIKE 2007, Evora International Short Film Festival

Three person Exhibition, Sir John Rogersons Quay, Dublin, Ireland (Opened by the German Ambassador to Ireland, Christian Pauls)

Summer Group Exhibition, Cavanacor Gallery, Donegal, Ireland

‘Fear Not’, Iontas Small Works, Group Exhibition, Sligo Art Galley, Ireland (Curated by Patrick Dempsey)

Platform 059, Eigse 2007 Invited Artists, Carlow (Curated by Francis McKee, selected by Garret Phelan and Maeve Butler)

CAP Foundation Exhibition, Lower Leeson Street, Dublin

‘Paper illusions’ screened at Växhuset in Västerås, Sweden

 

2006

Talbot Gallery, Christmas group exhibition, Dublin

‘Impressions’ Print Exhibition, Galway Arts Centre

‘Projected Weekends’, The Digital Hub, Dublin

Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Gala Banquet exhibition and Auction

Short films screened at ‘Wildbeam’, Groningen, The Netherlands

Short films screened at ‘Artisit?’ Festival, Galway, Ireland

Student Art Awards traveling exhibition: Royal Dublin Society, Dublin

Two-Person Graduate Exhibition, Cavanacor Gallery, Donegal, Ireland

‘Illustrating Illusion’ screened at Worldwide ShortFilm Festival, Canadian Film Centre, Toronto, Canada

Degree Show Exhibition, National College of Art and Design, Dublin

Royal Hibernian Academy 176th Annual Exhibition, Dublin

‘Camera Lucida’ Exhibition, Galerie Sign, Groningen, The Netherlands

2005

‘New Irish Painting’, Group Exhibition Context Galleries, Derry, Northern Ireland (Curated by Marianne O'Kane Boal)

‘Iontas’ Small Works, Group Exhibition, Sligo Art Galley, Ireland

Student Art Awards Exhibition, Royal Dublin Society, Dublin

Portrait Ireland Group Exhibition, Newtonbarry House, Wexford

Group Exhibition, Academie Minerva, Groningen, Holland

2004

'Reference' group exhibition, Cavanacor Gallery

Student Art Awards Exhibition, Royal Dublin Society, Dublin

Group exhibition, 137 Rathmines, Dublin (Curated by David O’Kane)

‘Canto I – VII’ short film screened at the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead

Markevicz Medal Group Exhibition, Dublin

Royal Hibernian Academy 174th Annual Exhibition, Dublin

Ballyfermot Civic Centre Anti-war Exhibition

2003

Red Bull ‘Art of Can’ National Exhibition, RHA, Dublin

Three-Person Exhibition - Galerie Schuster, Frankfurt, Germany

Two-Person Exhibition, Cavanacor Gallery, Donegal, Ireland

Markevicz Medal Group Exhibition, Dublin.

2002

‘Vanitas’ short film screened on West of England Television in Brief Encounters Film Festival.

Selected bibliography

2008

Leipzig International Art Programme Documentary
(Broadcast July 2008, Leipzig, Germany)

e v+ a Exhibition Catalogue, e v+a, Limerick, Ireland

Utopias and Other Lands in Limerick, The Irish Times, 19 March 2008, Aidan Dunne

2007

Generating New Perspectives, Career Development section,

Visual Artists Newssheet,November 2007, David O’Kane

Fear Not, Iontas Catalogue Sligo Art Galley, Ireland

Experiments with the symbolic power of nature, The Irish Times. 20 June 2007, Aidan Dunne

New-media art: An Irish context, Circa 120, Summer 2007, Paul O’Brien

CAP Foundation Catalogue, Interview by Luke Clancy

2006

John Kindness Retrospective 1986 – 2006, Switch Room Galleries,

(Internet Catalogue designed by David O’Kane) www.johnkindness.co.uk

Royal Dublin Society Student Art Awards Catalogue

Students pile the metaphors high, The Irish Times. 9 June 2006, Aidan Dunne

Academic or just old-fashioned, Sunday Tribune, 4 June 2006, Eimear McKeith

Portraits of the artists…, The Irish Times. 1 June 2006, Aidan Dunne

RHA Prize giving ceremony Donegal Democrat, 1 June 2006

Royal Hibernian Academy 176th Annual Exhibition Catalogue, Dublin

Dagblad van het Noorden, 27 February, Groningen, The Netherlands, Eric Nederkoorn

2005

New Irish Painting, Exhibition Catalogue, Derry, Northern Ireland

(New Irish Painting designed by David O’Kane)

Royal Dublin Society Student Art Awards Catalogue

2004

Depict! 2004, Brief Encounters Promotional Dvd

Royal Dublin Society Student Art Awards Catalogue

Royal Hibernian Academy 174th Annual Exhibition Catalogue, Dublin

2003

Frankfurt Allgemeine, Dorothee Baer-Bogenschütz

Can Artists, Hot-press. Vol. 27, No. 22, 19 November 2003, Maurice O’Brien

 

Artist Talks

2008

‘e v+ a’, Istabraq Hall, City Hall in Limerick 16th May 2008

2007

‘Soapbox Sessions’, Galway Arts Centre 18th May 2007

 

Selected Collections

The CAP Foundation, Dublin

The Office of Public Works

Bank of Ireland, Dublin

Academie Minerva, Groningen, The Netherlands

AXA Insurance, Dublin

Gerry Robinson, Former Chairman of the Arts Council of England

Barry Murphy, Former Chairman of the OPW

Robert Armstrong, Head of Painting, the National College of Art and Design

Various private collections in Germany, Ireland, England, Finland, Denmark and USA