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Biography
Born Edinburgh 1963
EDUCATION
1982 - 1986
B A HONS FINE ART DUNCAN OF JORDANSTONE COLLEGE OF ART DUNDEE
1988-1989
M A FINE ART UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER AT BELFAST.
AWARDS
2005 Grand Monaghan Arts Office
2002 ' Revealing Objects' Queens University Belfast, Prize Winner.
2000 Millennium Award Monaghan Co. Council
1998 Monaghan Leader Grant
1997 Department of Foreign Affairs Grant , Atlanta, U. S. A.
Aer Lingus Travel Award to Atlanta, U.S.A.
1991 Department of Foreign Affairs Grant to Tuscan, Arizona
Aer Lingus Travel Award to Chicago, U.S.A.
1990 Arts Council of Ireland Bursary
V.E. C. Monaghan Borderlines Book Cover illustration
Dedlus Publications Dublin Book Cover Illustration
COMMISSIONS
2005 Patrick Kavanagh Bicentenery Monaghan Co. Museum. Touring Exhibition.
2002 'Leabhar Mor Na Gaelige', Glasgow Gallery of Modern Art.
Touring City Art Centre Edinburgh, V & A London, Smithonian,
Washington, National Galleries Ireland
Spleachadh Series TG4.
McCalla Film Company, Dublin
2001 F.S.I. U.K., Esher, Surrey, England
1999 Shortlisted Placing Art Co. Sligo
Short listed In Context South Dublin Co. Council Art Projects 2000.
1998 Office of Public Works Commission One % Scheme Department of Agriculture & Social Welfare former Garda Barracks Monaghan.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2008 Sligo Art Gallery, Sligo
2005 Chronicles of Sea & Stone The Market House Gallery, Monaghan
1997 'New Works' The Dolmen Gallery, Limerick
1993 'Observations from the Periphery', Arts Council Gallery, Belfast.
1991 'New Works', Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin
'New Works', Rancho Linda Vista Gallery, Tuscan, Arizona.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2007 Air Fair New York
2006 Offshore Account The Bank of Ireland, Dublin. Boyle Arts Festival, Boyle.
2005 The Hallward Gallery, Dublin. The Form Gallery, Cork. 'Revealing Objects' Queens University, Belfast.
2003 The Mullan Gallery Belfast
'Revealing Objects' , Queens University , Belfast
2002 The Hallward Gallery, Dublin
'Revealing Objects', Queens University Belfast, Prize Winner
Boyle Art Festival, 'Contemporary Art from Ulster' .
2001 Queens University, Belfast
2000 The Byre Studio, Coney Island, Sligo
1999 'Gaelforce', Gracefield Art Centre, Dumfries, Scotland
The Daffodil Gallery, Skerries
The Sligo Art Gallery, Group Show.
1998 The Vanguard Gallery, Macroom
1997 'Year of Ireland Exhibition, Kennesaw State College, Georgia U.S.A.
'Rolling Devolution', The Crawford Art Centre, St Andrews Scotland ,
Scottish - Irish Contemporary Art , Touring.
Burgwedel Exhibition Hannover , Germany.
1996 'New Works', The Dyehouse Gallery, Waterford.
'Iontas Sligo', Art Gallery, (Touring)
1995 'New Works', Monaghan Museum Gallery
'New Works', Omagh Art Festival.
1993 'Heartland - Seabound', Sligo Art Gallery.
1992 'High Plains', Market House Gallery, Monaghan.
1991 'Sights or Sanctuaries', Drogheda Art Centre.
'Ten Years Annaghmakerrig', The Tyrone Guthrie Art Centre At Annaghamakerrig.
1990 The Claremorris Open
The Cootehill Arts Festival.
'Gauge A Wedge', Slaughterhouse Gallery, London
'Gauge A Wedge', The Richard Demarco Gallery, Edinburgh.
1987 Smith Biennale Smith Gallery Stirling.
1986 Aberdeen Art Society. Aberdeen.
RESIDENCIES & WORKSHOPS
2005 Artist in Residence Inish Oirr, Arran Islands.
2002 Loop Head Lighthouse, The Land Mark Trust, Co. Clare.
2000 Termon House The Landmark Trust Donegal.
1999 Termon House The Landmark Trust Donegal.
1998 Border Connections Workshops Cross Border Project Monaghan Youth Theatre & Portadown Youth Group.
1997 Artist in Residence Kennesaw State College, Georgia U.S.A.
1992 Artist in Residence St. Michaels School (Arts Council Schools Scheme.)
1991 Artist in Residence Inver College Carrickmacross (Arts Council Schools Scheme).
1990 Artist in Residence Rancho Linda Vista, Tuscan, Arizona.
1989 Artist in Residence The Tyrone Guthrie Art Centre Annaghmakerrig Monaghan
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Monaghan County Museum
V. E. C. Monaghan
The Tyrone Guthrie Art Centre.
The Arts Council of Northern Ireland
Office of Public Works Private Collections
REVIEWS
Aidan Dunne Irish Times 2005
Sunday Tribune 2004
Ian Hill Irish Times 1998
Ian Hill Irish Times 1993
Aiden Dunne Sunday Tribune 1991.
Brian McAvera 1991
WORK EXPERIENCE
2001 - 02 Visual Arts Co- Ordinator Market House Monaghan & Artist in Residency Programme.
2000 Visual Arts Co-Ordinator Monaghan Co. Museum , organising the Artist in Residency Programme & Exhibitions
Visual Arts Co-Ordinator Monaghan Co. Museum, organising the Artist in Residency Programme & Exhibitions
1999/98/97. Visual Arts Co-Ordinator Exhibition Programme Monaghan Co. Museum. Artists from Scotland, England, Ireland.
1996/94 Monaghan Open Biennale Co-Ordinator.
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