I am an artist who works in different mediums with an emphasis on photography and installation. I like to think my images create windows where the viewers can be whisked away to different worlds and absorbed by the atmosphere.

At the age of six my father gave me my first camera a ‘Kodak Brownie 127’. I started to take photographs of the clouds, sea and the minutae of life. Age seventeen he gave me an old Leica camera from his collection and off I went to discover the world.

He  had an optical business so looking through lenses was part of the everyday. Microscopes, Leica and Zeiss cameras, spectacles, as well as playing with beautiful handblown glass eyes made for the blind, gave me curiosity and the ability see instead of just look.

 My images are printed by a master printer to a sophisticated quality, on fine art archival paper. As much care and attention is taken with the prints as with the image. This gives a luminosity and presence more akin to painting and drawing. The larger photographs are printed and signed limited Editions of 10 printed on archival paper that has a similarity to watercolour paper.

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Diploma in Art and Design, Kingsway College, London – 1994

BA Hons Fine Art, Crawford College of Art, Cork Ireland – 2011

Teaches Art at Kinsale Further Education College

Member of Sculpture Factory and Cork Printmakers

EXHIBITIONS

1995 – EV+A Limerick (Selected by the Curator of the Reina Sofia Gallery Madrid)

1996 – Iontas Touring Exhibition: Sligo, Dublin & Ormeau Baths, Belfast

1998 – Scoip, SiamsaTire,Tralee

1998 – Solo Installation at Dublin Zoo (televised)

1999 – West Cork Arts Centre (prints selected by artist Brian Kennedy)

1999 – Art Trail Cork

2002 – Rhode Island Hall, Rhode Island, N.Y. USA

2003 – Cork Printmakers Touring Exhibition (prints selected by artist John Shinnors)

2004 – Triskel Art Centre Cork, Printmakers Touring Exhibition (prints selected Brian Kennedy)

2004 – The Fenton Gallery Cork, Raw Not Cooked (curated by Katherine Boucher-Beug)

2004 – King House. Roscommon, “Trunk Show” The Artist as Traveller

2004 – Sirius Art Centre, Cobh, The Artist as Traveller

2005 – Art Trail Cork, Video Uncommercial Break

2006 – Kinsale Arts Week, Barrack St Studios

2006 – Arthaven, Cobh

2006 – Kinsale Arts Week, Crackpots Gallery

2006 – Cork Printmaker Show, Halsingland Museum Sweden

2007 – Kinsale Arts Week, Touchwood Studio

2007 – The Women’s Gallery, London

2008 – Crackpots Gallery, Solo Exhibition, Kinsale

2008 – Kinsale Arts Week, Cork Printmakers, Charles Tyrrell Selects

2009 – Grove House Schull

2010 – Blackrock Medical Hall

2010 – Kinsale Arts Week Touchwood Studios, Kinsale

2010 – E.P.A. Johnstown Castle, Wexford Opera Festival

2011 – Start 2011, Photographic Exhibition, Wandsworth Quay

2011 – Fledgelings, Lavit Gallery, Cork

2012 – Human Rights Exhibition, Cork Vision Centre

2013 – The Poetry Project  Video JuneFairhead (online project)

2014 – Paper -Works Gallery Napier, New Zealand

2018 – Stranded Winebar and Gallery, Garretstown

2018 – Kinsale Arts

  2020 – Jacobs on the Mall, Cork City.