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Exhibitions

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

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

2023       142st 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       ‘Clay/Works’, Ceramics Ireland annual members exhibition, Dublin Castle

2023       ‘Mother Earth’, Strule Arts Centre, Omagh Co. Tyrone

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

2023       Easter Open Art Competition, Glebe House & Gallery, Donegal, Ireland.

2022       141st RUA Annual Exhibition, Ulster Museum, Belfast

2022       ‘Sculpture In Context’ (September/October), National Botanic Gardens, Dublin

2022       ‘Myth-Understood’, (Sept) 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’ (September/October), National Botanic Gardens, Dublin

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

2021       ‘In My Heart’s Core’ (August/September), Artists At The Mill group exhibition, Cultúrlann McAdam Ó Fiaich,                  Falls Road, Belfast

2021       ‘Cupola 30’, (July/August), 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       RUA Annual Exhibition, Ulster Museum, Belfast

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

2019       ‘Reawakening’, group exhibition, The Natural Room Emporium, Comber, Co. Down, N.I.

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

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

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

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

2018       ‘Closer to Home’, Puffin Gallery, Ballycastle, County Antrim, N.I.

2018       ‘Shades of Clay’, Kunsthuis Gallery, Crayke, Yorkshire

2018       RUA Annual Exhibition, Ulster Museum, Belfast

2018       ‘Emerging Artists’, Bils and Rye Gallery, Kirkbymoorside, N. Yorkshire

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

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

2018       Summer Season Exhibition, Mill Cove Gallery, The Beara Peninsula, County Cork, Ireland

2018       ‘Rainbow’, Zozimus Gallery, Dublin, Ireland

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

2018       ‘An Untold Story’, Hallows Gallery, Belfast, N.I.

2017       QSS Xmas Show, Queen Street Studios, Belfast, N. Ireland

2017       ‘Strings Attached’ Feile an Phobail & August Craft Month, Drying Room, Conway Mill, Belfast

2017       ’Queeriosity’ Belfast Pride Week Group Exhibition, Crescent Art Centre, Belfast, N.I.

2017       ‘Landscape Defined’, Framewerk Gallery, Belfast, N.I.

2017       ’ForM: Sculpture Exhibition’, Bangor Castle Walled Garden, Bangor, N. Ireland

2017       #WORKINPROGRESS, Framewerk Gallery, Belfast

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Arts Events

Belfast Potters Market August 2023

Celebrating Ceramics July 2023

Potfest Scotland June 2023

Belfast Potters Market August 2022

Celebrating Ceramics July 2022

Potfest Scotland June 2022

Galway Potters Spring Market May 2022

Belfast Potters Christmas Market December 2021

Galway Potters Market August 2021

Belfast Potters Market August 2021

Potfest Scotland June 2021

Awards/Prizes

2023       Travel Grant Award, Arts Council of Northern Ireland

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 N.Ireland

2020       Freelands Foundation Emergency Fund Grant

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

2018       2nd Prize ‘ForM: Sculpture Exhibition’, Bangor Castle Walled Garden, Co. Down, N. Ireland

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

Residencies

2024       (June) Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Annaghmakerrig, Newbliss, Co. Monaghan, ROI

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

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

2016       Wee Residencies, Boom Studios, Bangor, 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