statement.   expressionary articulation.
 

​As a painter, primarily working in oils, there is a necessity that each piece be acknowledged and viewed as an entity in itself. While at the same time, all have a distinct contribution to the formation of a substantial voice.
Furthering to try and meet the dare of painting, an approach to each surface invariably has to be one in which there is a constant grapple with dissatisfaction. Previous paintings can be spliced up, reconfigured and threaded anew. Various soiled baize material from gaming tables are known to become involved. The work requires itself to be blatantly of the hand, roughly hewn while thoroughly shipshape. A staunch belief in a developed visual language resides throughout – of mark-making in cohorts
with colour. And with rhythmical depth; a subversive, solemn opposition to decorum can reveal itself. The filtering of source material by way of memory occurs amid the incessancy of images we are subjected to – and are subject to.

The nuptials that can occur in those fleeting moments between paint and surface are why the why is why.

Summarily, I tend to invent events in a visual sense. To engage with painting can play this way.

 

 

 

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Exhibited Work — 

 

2017

Spotlight on Ireland Collection on Saatchi Art's homepage.
https://www.saatchiart.com/art-collection/Painting-Photography-Collage/Spotlight-on-Ireland/871991/179767/view

 

2015

Galway-Lorient 40th Exhibition – Connacht Tribune Building Gallery, Market Street, Galway City. Opened by President Michael D. Higgins.
19th – 27th September 2015

 

The Image As Not – Group Exhibition curated by Micky Donnelly, Fenderesky Gallery, 31 North Street, Belfast BT1 1NA.

12th March – 11th April 2015

 

2014

K-Fest – Visual Arts + Music Festival, Killorglin, Co. Kerry. 30th May – June 2nd 2014. http://www.kfest.ie/#!artists/cj3a

OSCAILTE 2014 – Artists' Studios Open Day in Galway City. May 10th 2014.

Exhibition of New Work – coinciding with the launch of ARTSPACE's new website, 29th March 2014. ARTSPACE Studios, Liosbán, Galway.

 

2013

Resonance - ARTSPACE Studios Group Exhibition (September/October), The Shed, Galway. Facilitated by Dr. Áine Phillips.

Overture - Group Exhibition (July/August), Damer House Gallery, Roscrea, Co. Tipperary. Curated by Therry Rudin and Patricia Hurl.

Graduate Degree Show B.A. (Hons) - (June) Centre for Creative Arts and Media, Cluain Mhuire Campus, GMIT, Galway.

 

2012

RDS Student Art Awards (August), Merrion Road, Ballsbridge, Dublin 4. Toured to Newbridge Art Centre, Co. Kildare (September).
Student Showcase Pavillion (June/July), Volvo Ocean Race – Global Village, Galway.
GMIT Art & Design Student Exhibition [B.A. (Ord)], Lombard St., Galway. Curated by Maeve Mulrennan (Galway Arts Centre).
5th Annual Members’ Show (January) - 126 Artist-run Gallery, Queen St., Galway.

 

 

 

 

active at Up Your Studio

 

affiliated with ARTSPACE Studios, Galway  —  since June 2013

 

 

 

 

Collections — 

 

Some private collections.

Public collection - Poor Clares Monastery, Nuns' Island, Galway (at bequest of Alice Dowling).

                             CCAM, Cluain Mhuire Campus, GMIT, Galway (not at their request).

 

 

 

 

Educationis —

 

B.A. (Hons) Fine Art  —  1:1​

Graduate (2013)  —  Centre for Creative Arts and Media, Cluain Mhuire Campus, GMIT, Galway.

Thesis  —  Painting’s Increased Necessity Amid The Ever Now