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Exhibitions

2026      ‘Anna Cheyne Visual Arts Award’, Island Arts Centre, Lisburn

2025      144th RUA Annual Exhibition, Ulster Museum, Belfast

2025      ‘Excellence In Irish Ceramics’, Mill Cove Gallery, Kenmare, County Kerry, Ireland

2025      ‘(Un)Bound’, Craft NI, Royal Avenue, Belfast

2025      ‘Clay/Works’, Ceramics Ireland annual members exhibition, Botanic Gardens, Dublin

2025      ‘Imprints In The Earth’, Castle Espie

2025      ‘ForM: Sculpture Exhibition’, Bangor Castle Walled Garden, Bangor, Co. Down, N.I.

2024      ‘Brilliant Generations’, Craft NI, Royal Avenue, Belfast

2024      143rd RUA Annual Exhibition, Ulster Museum, Belfast

2024      ‘Clay/Works’, Ceramics Ireland annual members exhibition, Dublin Castle

2023      ‘Form/Function/Flourish A Celebration of Ceramics’, Island Arts Centre, Lisburn

2023      ‘Curious Carnival’, solo exhibition , Sunburst Gallery, Ards Art Centre, Newtownards

2023      142nd RUA Annual Exhibition, Ulster Museum, Belfast

2023      International Craft Exhibition, Craft Hub, UWTSD, Swansea

2023      ‘Palimpsest’, Artists At The Mill group exhibition Linen Biennale, Drying Room, Conway Mill, Belfast

2023      ‘ForM: Sculpture Exhibition’, Bangor Castle Walled Garden, Bangor, Co. Down, N.I.         

2023      ‘Clay/Works’, Ceramics Ireland annual members exhibition, Dublin Castle

2022      141st RUA Annual Exhibition, Ulster Museum, Belfast

2022      ‘Sculpture In Context’, National Botanic Gardens, Dublin

2022      ‘Myth-Understood’, Solo exhibition, Cupola Gallery, Sheffield, UK

2022      ‘Clay/Works’, Ceramics Ireland annual members exhibition, Dublin Castle

2022      ‘ForM: Sculpture Exhibition’, Bangor Castle Walled Garden, Bangor, Co. Down, N.I.

2022      ‘Ceramics Ireland Selected Exhibition’, Cowshed Gallery, Farmleigh, Phoenix Park, Dublin

2022      ‘Baggage’, solo exhibition Drying Room Gallery, Conway Mill Belfast, NI Mental Health Arts Festival

2021      140th RUA Annual Exhibition, Ulster Museum, Belfast

2021      Irish Ceramics Exhibition, Mill Cove Gallery, Kenmare, Cork

2021      ‘Sculpture In Context’, National Botanic Gardens, Dublin

2021      ‘Re-New’, August Craft Month, Craft NI, Royal Avenue, Belfast

2021      ‘Cupola 30’, Cupola Gallery, Sheffield, UK

2021      ‘ForM: Sculpture Exhibition’, Bangor Castle Walled Garden, Bangor, Co. Down, N.I.

2021      ‘Limin-alley’, part of the Imagine Festival, East Belfast entry, Belfast

2020      ‘Hindsight2020’, Winter Open Exhibition, Rua Red, South Dublin Arts Centre, Dublin

2020      ‘Ubuntu’, Christmas group exhibition, Cupola Gallery, Sheffield, UK

2020      ‘Liminal Space’, East Belfast entry, Belfast

2020      ‘ForM: Sculpture Exhibition’, Bangor Castle Walled Garden, Bangor, Co. Down, (online)

2020      ‘Ceramics Showcase’, group exhibition, Craft NI, Royal Avenue, Belfast

2019      138th RUA Annual Exhibition, Ulster Museum, Belfast

2019      ‘The Anna Cheyne Visual Arts Award 2019’, Island Arts Centre, Lisburn

2019      ‘ForM: Sculpture Exhibition’, Bangor Castle Walled Garden, Bangor, Co. Down, N.I.

2019      ‘Body Language - Materials, Messages & Meaning’, R-Space Gallery, Lisburn

2018      ‘Human’, Christmas group exhibition, Cupola Gallery, Sheffield, UK

2018      137th RUA Annual Exhibition, Ulster Museum, Belfast

2018      ‘Figure’, group exhibtion, Cupola Gallery, Sheffield, UK

2018      ‘Rainbow’, Zozimus Gallery, Dublin, Ireland

2018      ‘ForM: Sculpture Exhibition’, Bangor Castle Walled Garden, Bangor, Co. Down, N.I.

 

Collaborations

2019      ‘Face Value’, exhibition with Lenka Davidikova, Sunburst Gallery, Ards Art Centre, Newtownards

2018      ‘Fragments of Time’, with Artists At The Mill & Amps Studios with Linen Biennial, Feile An Phobail & August Craft Month, Drying Room Gallery, Conway Mill, Belfast

2014      ‘CATalogue’ Café, with artist Sheelagh Colclough; Culture Night 2014 & Feile an Phobail, Belfast

2014      ‘Cracked’ (Revised), with actor and writer Claire Cogan, and Raymond Keane; The Ark, Dublin

2014      ‘Cracked!’ (Pop Up Art Productions), with actor & writer Claire Cogan Belfast Children’s Festival

 

Arts Events

2024                                    Craftworks, Shoreditch Town Hall, London May

2022, 2023                          Celebrating Ceramics

2021, 2022, 2023               Potfest Scotland

2021/2/3/4/5                     Belfast Potters Market, August Craft Month

2021/2/3/4                         Belfast Potters Christmas Market

2021, 2022                          Galway Potters Spring Market

 

Awards/Prizes

2026      Anna Cheyne Visual Arts Award, Lisburn, Northern Ireland

2023      Support for the Individual Artist Program Award, Arts Council of Northern Ireland

2023      Travel Grant Award, Arts Council of Northern Ireland

2022      Potters’ Potter Belfast Potters Christmas Market 2022

2021      Irish Ceramics 2021 Award, Sculpture In Context, Dublin

2021      Highly Commended Makers Prize, Re-New exhibition, Craft NI

2021      Emergency Resilience Award Arts Council Northern Ireland

2020      Freelands Foundation Emergency Fund Grant

2018      Support for the Individual Artist Program Award, Arts Council of Northern Ireland

2017/18 2nd Prize ‘ForM: Sculpture Exhibition’, Bangor Castle Walled Garden, Co. Down, N. Ireland

 

Residencies

2024      Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Annaghmakerrig, Newbliss, Co. Monaghan, ROI

2018      Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Annaghmakerrig, Newbliss, Co. Monaghan, ROI

2017      #WORKINPROGRESS, Framewerk Gallery, Belfast, N. Ireland

Education

1990      Art & Design Foundation, Liverpool Polytechnic

1993      HND Design Crafts, Cumbria College of Art & Design

1995      BA Hons 3D Design (Ceramics) University of Wales, Cardiff