Curriculum Vitae
2024 Spike Island installation as part of Cork Harbour Festival. Knowledge as Freedom.
2024 Drawn Works Backwater First Floor Corridor Group Show
2023 Lavit Gallery Cork Summer Show: ceramic sculptures
2023 Blue House Gallery Schull Co. Cork. Summer Show: ceramic sculptures
2023 Salvagem Window. Studio sale: The Yellow Cup Series: oil on Arches paper
2023 Backwater Artists Group Winter Salon
2022 Falter. Check. Resolve Studio 12 Backwater Artists Group Cork
In Autumn 2022, I had a solo show in Studio 12, Backwater Artists Group, Cork; an installation of impossibly contorted ceramic horses, eighteen Beckett ‘Chess Piece’ drawings and a piece of text (a description, or a memory, of having played chess in a mental ward) on the wall. The ‘Chess Piece’ drawings are absurd in that all of the chess pieces depicted are horses, a tribute to the spirit of Beckett, in whose novel Murphy, the hero plays chess in a lunatic asylum.
2022 Art Riddler Dublin: ceramic sculptures
2022 Backwater Artists Network Fota House Co. Cork: drawings ink and pencil on paper
2021 Backwater Artists Group Salon Cork: oil on paper
2021 Blue House Gallery Schull Co. Cork Summer Show: oil on Arches paper paintings
2021 Lavit Gallery Members Show: drawings mixed media on paper
2020 BAN Group Show Studio 12 Backwater Artists Group: Oil on Arches paper paintings
2019 Lavit Gallery Members Show: drawings pencil and collage on paper
2018 Seven. The Guesthouse Cork
In December 2018, I exhibited three series of works: 7 Chess Piece (all of the pieces are horses) drawings (mixed media on Ingres paper), 7 Dead Flower drawings (pencil and graphite aquarelle on watercolour paper on Ingres paper) and 7 Objects Observed: seven oil on canvas painting accompanied by a text in letter form.
2017 The Road Not Taken Ballymaloe Grainstore Co. Cork: drawings, text piece, ink and acrylic on paper
2016 Studio sale: Duck Egg series oil on canvas paintings
2006 Greenlane Gallery Dingle
Oil on canvas Horse paintings
2002 Vangard Gallery Cork with Michael Quane
1999 University College Cork
Oil on canvas Horse Paintings
2002 Vangard Gallery Cork with Michael Quane
Publications
2024 Flotsam magazine: The Food issue. Letters to the editor of a fictional newspaper. (forthcoming)
2023 Flotsam magazine: The Roleplay issue. Concrete Prose Poem.
2021 Death by Petty Grievance. A lockdown book. Illustrated rants.
2020 The Book of How. Illustrated short stories offering an absurd solution to everyday problems.
Statement
Born in Dublin in 1971, my son was born in 1990 - my work is about being a single mother, a woman. Often drawing on literature, I make work which concerns itself with trauma and joy - the joy of making.
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