Education
2020 MA Social Practice and the Creative Environment, Limerick School of Art and Design, Limerick, IRL
2010 B.A. Cum Laude Studio Art Drawing and Painting, Oakland University, Rochester Hills, MI, USA
Projects and Creative Programmes
2023 No Place, Like this Place, a forthcoming series of interventions and works exploring ecology of place
2022 – 2023 The Last of Our Kind, Creative Schools project with LETs
2021 – ongoing Folding Worlds, developing playful interventions in Out Patient hospital settings
2020 – ongoing Rhizome (MA Thesis and on going research project into ecology of community and belonging to place)
2020 – ongoing Water Paths, Collaboration and community engagement with artist Deirdre Power, Limerick, Ireland
2020 – 2021 Helium Arts: Distance Creates, online programme
2019 – Helium Arts: Creative Health Hub, Limerick, Ireland
2019 Creative Europe: Salmons Wake Pt. 2, Mobility Exchange, Funchal, Madeira
2018 – 2020 Salmons Wake, International Heritage Exchange, The Ilen Project, Limerick, Ireland
2018 Dancing w/IM-Mortality, DanceLimerick/LightMoves Festival and Hunt Museum, Limerick Ireland
2018 The Curious Cabinet –A Walking Drawing Experience, Hunt Museum, Limerick
2018 Cruinniú na nÓg –Exploring Art Exhibitions w/Stop Motion, Hunt Museum, Limerick
2017 Sybil Connolly in Wikipedia, Hunt Museum, Limerick
2017 800 Years of Fashion in The Hunt, BealtaineFestival, Hunt Museum, Limerick
2017 Bedford Row Creative Sessions, Hunt Museum, Limerick, Ireland
2017 Workbench BOI -Art and History Integration Project w/TYs, Limerick, Ireland
2017 Ronnie Hughes –Children’s Interpretation Project, The Model, RHA,and LCG, Ireland
2017 The Artful Toddler, The Model, Sligo
2016 –2017 PUNC 1×1, The Model, Sligo
2016 –2017 Family Days in the Model, The Model, Sligo
2016 & 2017 Children’s Book Festival, The Model, Sligo
2015 –2017 Primary and Secondary School Tours and Art Class, The Model, The Mall, Sligo
2013 –2015 Pop-up Printshops, Five Glens Arts Festival, Peer-to-Peer Print Group, Manorhamilton, Leitrim
2013–2014 AfterSchool Arts Programme, Diffreen National School, Glencar, Leitrim
2011 –2012 Creative Arts Classes, PSA PrimarySchool, Banpo-dong, Seoul, S.Korea
2010 –2011 Creative Arts Classes, L.C.I. Primary School, Songpa-gu, Seoul, S.Korea
2011 –2012 Walk and Draw in the City –Events and Workshops, Gangnamand Insa-Dong, Seoul, S. Korea
Talks and Lectures
2021 Critical Friends NCAD and online programme
2018 IMA Education Forum Sybil and the Commons: an experiment in opening up collections, National
Museum of Ireland
2017 Artist Conversation Series, The Hunt Museum, Limerick
2016 Studio+, The Model, Sligo
Residencies
2019 AK Ilen, Greenland – The Salmon’s Wake Project, Nuuk, Greenland
2018 Cill Rialaig Artists Residency, Cill Rialaig Arts Centre, Kerry, Ireland
Exhibitions
2019 InCognito, Jack and Jill Foundation, Dublin, Ireland
2018 Limerick Figure Drawing Society Annual Show, Limerick, Ireland
2016 LSC/Print Symposium, Leitrim Sculpture Centre, Manorhamilton, Ireland
2016 Hares on the March, Jack and Jill Foundation, Dublin, Ireland
2016 Leitrim Sculpture Centre Annual Juried Show, New Line, Manorhamilton
2015 The Model Winter Gala Exhibition, The Model, Sligo Ireland
2015 Leitrim Sculpture Centre Christmas Juried Show-New Line Rd, Manorhamilton, Leitrim, Ireland
2015 1ft. Sq.-Higher Bridges Gallery -Clinton Centre, Bedmore Stree, Fermanagh, Northern Ireland
2015 New Voices of Ireland: Series 3-Kildare Street, Dublin Ireland
2015 The Hive Emerging–MOTLEY -Waterford, Waterford Ireland
2015 Open Art Expo, Five Glens Art Festival, Manorhamilton, Sligo
2015 The Loveliest Tree, Juried Show, Winner of People’s Choice Award –Manorhamilton, Leitrim, Ireland
2014 Leitrim Sculpture Centre Christmas Juried Show-New Line Rd, Manorhamilton, Leitrim, Ireland
2014 1ft. Sq.-Higher Bridges Gallery -Clinton Centre, Bedmore Street, Fermanagh, Northern Ireland
2012 Samsung Outdoor Printmaking, Seoul River, Seoul, South Korea
2011 Island Regional Art Expo and Performances, Gwang-nam, South Korea, 시야, Nest Gallery Spaces
2010 BA Thesis: “Flair” -OUAG, Oakland University Art Gallery, Rochester Hills, MI, USA
2009 Two Person Show: The Pike Room, ‘C.S.F.’-Carla Butwin and Chelsea Canavan -Pontiac, MI
2008 Art Ex-Libris-Juried Exhibition (Finalist) -Kresge Library, Rochester Hills, MI
Collections
Karmonos Cancer Institute Detroit/Farmington Hills/Monroe, MI, USA
Kresge Library, Oakland University, Rochester Hills MI
OUAG: Oakland University Art Gallery, Rochester Hills, MI
Pluto Studios Birmingham, MI
Awards and Funding
Arts Council of Ireland – Agility Award: Round 3, 2021
Creative Ireland ( Eco Showboat commission)
Made in Limerick 2021
Local Community Water Development Fund 2021
Limerick Arts Office (Salmons Wake)
Creative Ireland (Salmons Wake)
Creative Europe: i-Portunus
Member of the Visual Artists Ireland
Member of the Clare County Council Artists Panel
Creative Schools Artist
TAP and BLAST Artist – Limerick Education Centre