I’m an Irish visual artist and photographer and my work explores how we inhabit and imagine place. My background as an architect influences how I see the world, and my practice is situated in the overlap of these two disciplines; of space-making and image-making. Both architecture and photography negotiate a balance between the real and the ideal, and both influence how how we make place, and how we construct meaning.
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Education
- MFA Fine Art Photography Belfast School of Art, Ulster University 2013 – 2015
- Diploma in Professional Practice in Architecture University College Dublin 2011 – 2013
- Bachelor of Architecture University College Dublin 2006 – 2007
- Erasmus Technische Universiteit Delft 2005 – 2006
- Bachelor of Science of Architecture University College Dublin 2000 – 2003
Exhibitions
- Prendre Forme Cournon d'Auvergne, France 2024
- Light Aggregates Dunlavin Arts Festival, Wicklow 2024
- Images are all we have PhotoIreland, Dublin 2022
- Still So Fine Art, Dublin 2022
- The Positive Space Various locations, Dublin City 2020
- Poetics of Space Space Lhomond, Centre Cultural Irlandais, Paris 2019
- New Irish Works PhotoIreland, Dublin 2019
- Capture SO Fine Art, Dublin 2019
- Temple Bar Gallery + Studios Dublin Art Book Fair, Dublin 2018
- Open House Dublin Home on the Grange, Dublin 2018
- Engage Gallery of Photography, Dublin 2017
- THF Belfast Exposed Futures Gallery, Belfast 2017
- New Irish Works The Library Project, PhotoIreland, Dublin 2017
- Interactions Belfast Exposed, Belfast 2017
- New Irish Works Space Lhomond, Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris 2016
- Home on the Grange Open House Dublin 2016
- PhotoLondon Peckham 24, Belfast Exposed Futures at the Copeland Gallery, London 2016
- Circulations Festival 104 Gallery, Paris. 2016
- Beyond the Camera Pingyao International Photography Festival, Shanxi Province, China. 2015
- Fotobookfestival Kassel Dummy Award Travelling exhibition: Rome, Madrid, Dublin, Kaunas, Oslo, Istanbul. 2015
- RDS Student Art Awards Exhibition Royal Dublin Society, Dublin. 2015
- Scopic MFA Graduate Exhibition Darc Space Gallery, Dublin and Belfast School of Art, Ulster University, Belfast 2015
- Nine Lives The Tank, Design Museum, London. 2015
- Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, Dublin 2015
- PhotoIreland The Beginning of the Sharpness, Dublin 2013
- Culture Night Block T, Dublin 2013
- IAF Open House Describing Architecture Exhibition. Dublin 2012
- Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, Dublin 2012
Awards
- Ville de Cournon d’Auvergne Photographic Residency & Commission 2023
- Visual Arts Bursary Award Arts Council of Ireland 2020
- Language Bursary Award Centre Cultural Irlandais, Paris 2020
- Futures Artist at Unseen Amsterdam Nominated by PhotoIreland 2019
- Travel & Training Award Arts Council of Ireland 2019
- New Irish Works Selected Artist 2019
- Cité Internationale des Arts Paris Residency, Institut Français 2019
- Next Generation Award Arts Council of Ireland 2017
- Project Studio Award Temple Bar Gallery + Studios 2017
- Belfast Exposed/Seen Fifteen Exhibition Award 2017
- Belfast Exposed Futures Selected Artist 2017
- New Irish Works PhotoIreland, Selected Artist 2016
- Kassel Photobook Festival Dummy Book Award – Shortlisted 2015