Education
2009 MA Visual Arts Practice, IADT, Dublin
1986 -1989 BA (Hons) Falmouth School of Art, Cornwall, England
1984 -1986 Kingsway Princeton College, London
Solo Exhibitions
2023 Attitude of a Plane – Linenhall Arts Centre, Co. Mayo
2018 Carriage Return – Municipal Gallery dlr Lexicon, Visual Arts Commission Award (2018)
2016 Revisions – Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, Dublin (curated by Ruairi O’Cuiv)
2014 Part Drawing – The Drawing Project, IADT, Dun Laoghaire
2012 Draw Full Size – RHA Ashford Gallery, Dublin
2011 General Arrangement (with Marcel Broodthaers) – Mermaid Arts Centre Wicklow (curated by Eilis Lavelle,Cliodhna Shaffrey)
2010 Measured Fall – Occupy Space, Limerick (curated by Annette Moloney)
2008 Carlisle Pier – Pavilion Theatre, Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin
2006 Backwards and forwards, in and out – West Cork Arts Centre, Cork
2003 Building to be demolished – Monaghan Market House, Monaghan
1999 Self Feed – (collaborative work) Concourse Installation Programme, DLR Arts, Co. Dublin
1997 Falsework/Formwork – Temple Bar Gallery Atrium, Dublin
1993 The Collective Body – The Project Art Centre, Dublin; Limerick City Gallery, Limerick
Selected Group Exhibition
2023 Connections, Boyle Arts Festival
2023 A Line Around an Idea, a way of knowing through contemporary drawing practice, The Glucksman, Cork
2022-23 Connections, Ports, Past and Present: County Hall Wexford; Ceredigion Museum, Aberystwyth; Pembroke Dock; EPIC
Museum, Dublin; Ucheldre, Holyhead
2021 Home: Being and Belonging in Contemporary Ireland, The Glucksman, Cork
2021 30 years of Making, Mermaid Arts Centre, Wicklow
2021 Gestetner 140, 140th Anniversary of the Gestetner Duplicator; printmakers, artists, musicians, composer. Curator: Gin
Saunders, UWE Bristol (online exhibition)
2020 Home from Home, Irish artists respond to the COVID-19 restrictions, The Glucksman, Cork (online exhibition)
2018 EVA International 2018, Limerick City Gallery, Limerick
2018 Elevate, Contemporary Irish Art from the Arts Council of Ireland Collection 2008-2018, Luan Gallery, Athlone
2016 Tulca Festival of Visual Art 2016, Galway Arts Centre and 126 Gallery, Galway
2016 A Conversation on Drawing, RHA studios, Dublin
2016 Source – Phizzfest, Dublin
2016 A Knowing Nature – The Dock, Carrick-on-Shannon, Co. Leitrim
2015 30 Years, artists, places – Touring exhibition, Ireland (2015-17)
2015 Uncovering a Collection – Municipal Gallery, DLR Lexicon, Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin
2014 Soundings – Municipal Gallery, DLR Lexicon, Dun Laoghaire, Co. Dublin
2014 Exploring Spaces – The Braid, Mid-Antrim Museum and Roe Valley Cultural Centre, Limavady, Antrim
2012 Into the Light, The Arts Council – Crawford Art Gallery, Cork
2012 Fast Moving Consumer Goods – The Talbot Gallery, Dublin
2011 Fine Lines – Limerick City Gallery of Art, Istabraq Hall, Limerick
2011 Outside the Lines, Contemporary Drawing Practice – DLR Arts Co. Dublin
2010 Inscape – Galway Arts Centre
2009 Public Gesture – The Lab, Dublin
2008 178th Exhibition – RHA, Dublin
2008 As Built, Drawings – Wicklow County Council, Wicklow
2008 127th Exhibition, Royal Ulster Academy – Belfast
2008 Eigse 2008 – Carlow
2008 Let’go – Monster Truck Gallery, Dublin
2006 Utopias Fair – Eigse, Carlow
2005 Eurojet Futures, The Anthology – RHA, Dublin
2005 Iontas 2005 – Sligo Art Gallery, Sligo
2004 Eurojet Futures – RHA, Dublin
2004 In-between spaces – West Cork Arts Centre, Cork
2004 Claremorris Open Exhibition – Claremorris, Mayo
2004 174th Exhibition – RHA, Dublin
2004 Mostyn 2004 – Oriel Mostyn Gallery, Llandudno, Wales
2003 EV+A – Limerick (curated by Virginia Perez-Ratton)
2002 Zone – Mermaid, Wicklow Art Center
2002 Revealing Objects – Naughton Gallery at Queens University, Belfast
1997 EV+A – Limerick (curated by Paul O’Reilly)
1996 8th Mostyn Open – Oriel Mostyn Gallery, Llandudno, Wales
1994 art(s) d’Europe – Galerie de L’Esplanade, Paris
1994 Sweets from a Stranger – Norwich Gallery, Norwich
1993 EV+A – Limerick (selected by Gloria Muore)
1993 See Through Art – Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery, Dublin
Book Fairs
2023 Dublin Art Book Fair 2023: Polyphonic, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin
2023 DISTRO, Cavan Art Festival 2023
2023 Tsundoku Art Book Fair 2023, The Printworks, Dublin Castle, Dublin
2020 Dublin Art Book Fair 2020: Design as an Attitude, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin
2019 Dublin Art Book Fair 2019 Art & Architecture: Learning from the Bauhaus, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios
Awards
2024 Arts Grant Award, Professional Development, Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council
2021 Visual Arts Bursary – The Arts Council
2020 The Markievicz Award 2020, The Arts Council on behalf of The Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and
Media
2019 Visual Arts Bursary – The Arts Council
2016 Arts Grant Award, Professional Development – DLR Grant
2011 Visual Arts Bursary – The Arts Council
2005 Project Award (over five years – Carlisle Pier Residency) – The Arts Council
2005 Visual Arts Bursary – The Arts Council
2005 Short-listed for AIB Prize
2003 EV+A ‘03 Open Award -Virginia Perez-Ratton, Curator
1995 Visual Arts/Architecture Award – The Arts Council
1993 Materials Grant -The Arts Council
Residencies/Seminars/Symposium
2023 Interface Inagh International Residency – Detroit Stockholm studio collective & artist-run gallery, Stockholm
2017 UCD Parity Studios, Artist in Residence, UCD College of Engineering and Architecture
2014 Artist in Residency, Dublin City Council Department of Architecture and Engineering
2011 Fine Lines Drawing Seminar, Istabraq Hall Limerick City Gallery of Art
2006–2010 Carlisle Pier Residency, The Arts Council, DLR Arts, The Harbour Board, Dun Laoghaire
2005 Laois Artists’ Symposium – Emo Court, Laois
2005 Drawing on Landscape Symposium – Burren College of Art, Co. Clare
1994 European Pepiniere Award for Young Artists – 6-month residency, Norwich, U.K.
Commissions
2020-23 Ports, Past and Present, University College Cork, Aberystwyth University, the University of Wales Trinity St David and
Wexford County Council
2018 Grangegorman Public Art, ‘…the lives we live’, Pathway 6
2017 Lexicon Municipal Gallery Visual Arts Commission Award (2018)
2013-15 Interaction with the City, Public Arts Commission, Dublin City Council
2011 Fort Camden Commissions 2011, Cork County Council
2008 Drawing Commission – Wicklow County Council
Bibliography
2022 SEED: Objects of Wonder Constellation, mixed media journal of art and writing, Felicia Olusanya and Grace Wilentz 2022
2018 Circa Art Magazine, 3rd May 2018, A Painting Framed by a Biennal, 38th EVA International, Ramon Kassam
2018 Foolscap, Jessica Foley, (mimeograph, fictional prose-poem, edition of 120)
2016 Revisions, Dublin City Public Art Programme (catalogue)
2016 The Irish Times, 26th January 2016, Revision – Julie Merriman, Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, Aidan Dunne
2014 The Irish Times, 23rd December 2014, The bright new gallery by the sea, Aidan Dunne
2014 Exploring Spaces, Braid Mid Antrim Museum, (catalogue)
2012 Into the Light, The Arts Council, (catalogue)
2011 Visual Arts News Sheet, Issue 5, Nov – Dec 2011, General Arrangement, Julie Merriman and Marcel Broodthaers, Jacqui
McIntosh
2009 Building Material 19, Architectural Association of Ireland. Editor: S. Mulhall
2008 Carlisle Pier, Visual Arts Residency 2006-2010, Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown Co. Council (catalogue)
2008 Carlisle Pier, The Artists, The Authors (catalogue)
2008 127th Exhibition Catalogue, RUA, Belfast
2005 Irish Arts Review, Summer 2005, The rule of first principles, Frances Ruane
2005 The Irish Examiner, April 20, Investing in the next big thing, M.O’Sullivan
2005 Eurojet Futures, The Anthology, RHA, Dublin (catalogue)
2004 Irish Arts Review, Winter 2004, Bright Futures, Marianne O’Kane
2004 The Irish Times, November 24th, Trade secrets and a survey of contemporary Ireland, Aidan Dunne
2004 Eurojet Futures 2004, Royal Hibernian Academy Dublin (catalogue)
2004 Claremorris Open Exhibition, (catalogue)
2004 Mostyn 2004,The Mostyn Open Exhibition 2004, Oriel Mostyn UK (Catalogue)
2003 EV+A ’03, Limerick City Gallery, Limerick (Catalogue)
1999 Installation Programme 1999, Dun Laoghaire-Rathdown Co. Co (Catalogue)
1998 EV+A ’98, Limerick (Catalogue)
1996 The 8th Mostyn Open, Oriel Mostyn, UK (Catalogue)
1994 art(s) d’Europe, Paris, (Catalogue)
1994 Sweets from a Stranger, Norwich Gallery, Norwich, UK (Catalogue)
Collections
University College Cork Art Collections, The Glucksman, Cork
University College Dublin, School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane Collection
The Arts Council of Ireland Collection
The National Collection of Contemporary Drawing, Limerick City Gallery, Limerick
Ballymun Regeneration Ltd., Ballymun Civic Offices, Ballymun
Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council
Cork County Council
Dublin City Council
Wicklow County Council
Laois County Council
Private collections, Ireland