Galleries

  • Dublin - Kilcock Art Gallery, The Tramyard Gallery, Gormleys Fine Art.
  • Belfast - Parvis, Lisburn; Gormleys Fine Art (also in Omagh).
  • Kerry - The Greenlane Gallery, Dingle.

Exhibitions

  • Royal Hibernian Academy of Art, Annual Exhibition, RHA, Dublin, 2011, 2010, 2007, 2006, 2002.
  • Royal Ulster Academy of Art, Annual Exhibition, Ulster Museum, Belfast. 2009 -2004, 2001, 2000.
  • The Society of Portrait Sculptors, Annual Exhibiton, London. 2007, 2006.
  • Solomon Fine Art, Exhibition Celebrating 25 years of CAST Foundry, Dublin, 2011.
  • Gormleys Fine Art, Art in the Garden Exhibition, Culloden Hotel, Belfast, 2011.
  • Millcove Gallery, Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition, Co. Cork. 2010.
  • Solomon Fine Art, Spring Forms outdoor sculpture exhibition, Co. Kildare, 2009.
  • Portrait Ireland, Newtownbarry House Gallery, Co. Wexford. 2005.
  • Sculpture in Context Exhibition, Botanic Gardens, Dublin. 2003.
  • Eigse Annual Exhibition, Carlow Arts Festival. 2001.
  • Oireachtas Annual Exhibition, Dun Laoghaire. Won Sculpture 1st Prize. 2000.
  • The Tramyard Gallery, Joint Exhibition with painter Steve Browning, Dalkey, Dublin. 2006.
  • The Taylor Gallery, Joint Exhibition with painter Brian Denington. Belfast. 2005.

Collections

  • Iveagh Gardens, Dublin.
  • City Hall, Belfast.
  • International Rugby Board, World Headquarters, Dublin.
  • Irish Rugby Football Union, Dublin.
  • National Concert Hall, Dublin.
  • Incorporated Orthopaedic Hospital of Ireland
  • BreastCheck, St Vincent's University Hospital, Dublin.
  • Mater Misericordiae University Hospital, Dublin.
  • Treasury Holdings, Dublin.
  • Mason, Hayes & Curran Solicitors, Dublin.
  • Hayes Solicitors, Dublin.
  • Tommy Tiernan, Comedian, Dublin.
  • Clifton House, Belfast.
  • Gracehill Primary School, Co. Antrim.
  • Boss Murphy Collection, Churchtown, Mallow, Co. Cork.
  • Nine Fine Irishmen Irish Bar, New York New York Hotel Casino, Las Vegas.
  • Private collections in Ireland, the UK, France, USA, Canada and New Zealand.

Competitions and Commissions


2010

Plane Tree. Incorporated Orthopaedic Hospital of Ireland, Dublin. Awarded commission for life size bronze sculpture of a plane tree.
Newtownabbey Borough Council. Awarded commission of life size bronze heron for Jordanstown Loughshore Park, Belfast.

2009

Mick the Miller. Awarded commission for life size bronze sculpture of champion greyhound for Killeigh, County Offally, unveiled by An Taoiseach, Mr. Brian Cowan TD, January 2011.

2008

Count John McCormack. Six foot bronze sculpture of the Irish tenor unveiled in the Iveagh Gardens, beside the National Concert Hall, Dublin.
Shortlisted for six foot bronze sculpture commission of Dean Jonathan Swift for St. Patrick's Cathedral Deanery gardens, Dublin.

2007

Royal Hibernian Academy of Art Annual Exhibition, Dublin. Won Conor/Moran Award for Sculpture.

2006

Hillsborough Castle, Northern Ireland Office. Invited Artist, February to March.

2005

BreastCheck, St. Vincent's University Hospital, Dublin. Bronze bust commission for Reception Area.

2004

City Hall, Belfast. Bronze bust commission of Mary Ann McCracken.

2003

National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin. Invited to present a lecture on Portrait Sculpture and Bronze Casting to the Friends of the National Gallery of Ireland.
The Irish Pub Company, Dublin. Bronze bust of "MEAGHER OF THE SWORD" (1823-1867), Nine Fine Irishmen Irish Bar, New York New York Hotel and Casino, Las Vegas.

2000

Oireachtas Annual Exhibition, Dun Laoghaire. Won Oireachtas/CAST Sculpture Prize.


About the artist

  • 1989-93 Heriot Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland. French and Spanish Interpreting and Translating.
  • 1993-94 Michael Smurfit Graduate School of Business, UCD. Graduate Diploma in Business Studies.
  • 1994-95 Académie Aquarelle, Paris, watercolour and sculpture classes.
  • 1995-96 National College of Art and Design, Dublin, advanced watercolour classes.
  • 1998-99 Trinity Arts Workshop, Dublin, sculpture and life drawing classes.
  • 1997-00 Studied Interior Design. Worked with Milo Fitzgerald and the late Carl Geisler.
  • 1998-00 University College Dublin. History of European Painting. First Class Honours.
  • 2000      Acquired Artists Tax Exemption.
  • 2001      Slade School of Fine Art, University College London, Sculpting the Human Figure in Wax.
  • 2004      Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Dun Laoghaire, Dublin. Lecturer in Portrait Sculpture.
  • 2005-08 The Florence Academy of Art, Italy. Figurative Sculpture.
  • 2005      The Irish Academy of Figurative Art, Italy. Artistic Anatomy (écorché).
  • 2006-07 Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Dun Laoghaire, Dublin. Lecturer with Film Make Up.
  • 2009      The Art Students League of New York, USA. Stone carving.
  • 2010      Pietrasanta, Italy. Marble carving.