Education
2018-2020 Turps Banana Correspondence course
2009-2011 BA Hons Fine Art, Dublin Institute of Technology
2000-2002 BETEC Higher Diploma in Graphic Design, Ballyfermot College, Dublin
Solo And Two person Exhibitions
2025 (Upcoming) Kevin Kavanagh, Dublin
2024 RHA, Ashford Gallery, Dublin, Solo exhibition
Draíocht, Dublin, ‘Whispers of rhythm balance on my hands’ Curated by Sharon Murphy
Liminal Gallery, Margate, UK, ‘Swallowing mist, to lick your mouth’
Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, ‘Forget your cares, sow your wild oats, sin is a wonderful disease’.
2023
2022 The Complex, Dublin, Two-person show with artist Lucy Sheridan
Liminal Gallery, UK, Solo exhibition online
2021 Super Market Art Fair, Stockholm, Solo, curated by Simon Fennessy
Corcoran, 126 Gallery
2020 What remains of this place?’ Online exhibition with artist Richard Proffitt
2019 126 Gallery, Galway, ‘Oddly Accurate Things’ with artist Lucy Sheridan, curated by Simon Fennessy Corcoran
Platform Arts, Belfast, ‘Bedecked’ with artist David Lunney
2018 The Complex, Dublin, ‘The blood-dimmed tide is loosed’, curated by Helen Mac Mahon
Tulca 18, ‘Sytonic State’ Galway Arts Centre, curated by Linda Shevlin
2017 Pallas Projects, Dublin,‘There is a police man in all our heads, that must be destroyed’
2015 Eight Gallery, Dublin, ‘Image is everything’ curated by Eoin O’Dowd
2013 Powerscourt Gallery, Dublin, ‘The how and why library’
2012 Avenue Road Gallery, Dublin, ‘The how and why library’
Selected Group Exhibitions
2022 Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin ‘Bones in the Attic’, curated by Victoria Evans, Glebe House, Donegal
‘Swallowing Geography’, curated by Rachel Botha, SC Gallery, Bilbao ‘Erretratu’, curated by Sergio García Bayón
2021 Visual Carlow, ‘Woman in the machine’, curated by Emma Lucy O’Brien
6th Biennial of painting, Croatia, ‘Dubliners’, curated by PPS, Pallas Projects, Dublin
‘Ark Life Auction’ curated by PPS, Pop up Gallery, Dublin ‘First days of an art world’ curated by Robyn Carey
Live broadcast, The Copperhouse Gallery ‘Scoop Foundation Art Auction’
2020 Pop up gallery, Galway, ‘CIRCUIT ONE’, curated by 126 Gallery
Pallas Projects, Dublin, Periodical Review X, ’20 works and 20 selectors’
2019 Richard Heller Gallery LA, USA, ‘Vignettes’, Curated by Richard Heller
Galerie COA, Canada, ‘New Classics’, Curated by Sasha Bogojev
Kevin Kavanagh Gallery ‘Minsta gallery, Silver’, Curated by Davey Moor
RHA ‘Vision X’, Curated by Diana Copperwhite
2018 The Dock, Co Leitrim, ‘Like me’, Curated by Sarah Searson
Alexandra College, Dublin, The Hermione Exhibition, curated by Aisling Prior
Pallas Projects, Dublin, Periodical Review #7, PPS V RGKSKSRG
RHA, 188th Annual Exhibition
2017 Eight Gallery, The VUE, RHA
RHA, 187th Annual Exhibition
The Tara Building, Dublin, Tara x Iverna, Dublin,
SO Fine Art Editions, Dublin, Young 111-The next Generation
Alexandra College, Dublin, The Hermione Exhibition
Eight Gallery, AAF New York
2016 RHA, Dublin, The VUE, Eight Gallery
RUA 135th Annual Exhibition, Ulster Museum
Pallas Projects 20 Year Benefit Auction Of Contemporary Art, Dublin
Leitrim Sculpture Centre, Manorhamilton, Summer Exhibition
RHA, 186th Annual Exhibition
Modern British and contemporary art fair, London
2015 RHA, The VUE, Eight Gallery
RHA, 185th Annual Exhibition
The Kilkenny Design Centre, Kilkenny, ID2015 Fresh Talent
2014 RUA 133rd Annual Exhibition.
Droichead Arts Centre, Drogheda, Now and Everything in between
RHA, Dublin, 184th Annual Exhibition
2013 RUA 132nd Annual Exhibition, Ulster Museum
Avenue Road Gallery, Dublin, We Want You
RHA, Dublin, ‘183rd Annual Exhibition
2012 RHA, 131st Annual Exhibition, Ulster Museum
Pallas Projects, Dublin, The Epic of Gilgamesh 2012
2011 Monster Truck Gallery, Temple Bar, Dublin Christmas show
RDS, Dublin, Student Art Awards
2010 Island Arts Centre, Lisburn, RDS Student Art Awards
2009 The National Portrait Gallery, London, Annual BP Portrait Exhibition
Residencies And Awards
2022 Artists support scheme bursary, Fingal County Council
Arts Council Ireland Bursary Award
Fingal County Council and RHA studio award
2021 Arts Council Ireland Bursary Award
Temple Bar Gallery studio award
2020 Arts Council Ireland Bursary Award
Artists support scheme bursary, Fingal County Council
Royal Hibernian Academy residency
2018 The Next Generation Award, Arts Council Ireland
Tyrone Guthrie Centre residency
2015 KM Evans Painting Prize, Royal Hibernian Academy
2014 Conor Prize for figurative work, Royal Ulster Academy
Media
Bones in the attic by Dr Kate Antosik-Parsons, Visual Artists news sheet Nov – Dec 2022
Like Me by Joanne Laws, Visual Artists news sheet May-June 2018
In Conversation with Eleanor McCaughey by Aidan Kelly Murphy Thin Air Magazine, 2017
A Life Less ordinary by Sarah Clayton Lea, Magpie Magazine 2017
How To Start Your Own Art Collection by Lizzie Gore Grimes, Image Magazine, 2017
Image is everything by Aidan Kelly Murphy, Le Cool, 2015
A challenging, fresh take on a battered world by Aidan Dunne, The Irish Times, 2011
Talks And Workshops
2018 Present Visitor engagement, IMMA
2021 TBGS, workshop with artist Lucy Sheridan
2022 Artist Talk for ‘Bones in the Attic‘ exhibition, Hugh Lane Gallery
2021 TBGS, workshop with artist Richard Proffitt ‘What remains of this place’
TBGS, workshop , summer school
RHA, master class, ‘Portrait as still life’
2017-2021 Art coordinator and workshop tutor at Addiction Response Crumlin
2019 RHA, workshops in primary schools, ‘Arts in education programme’
2019 RHA, workshop, ‘Sculpture as painting’
RHA workshop RHA Teen Directive, with Jane Fogerty
Talk, 126 Gallery, Galway,‘Oddly Accurate Things’, Eleanor McCaughey, Lucy Sheridan in conversation with Simon Fennessy Corcoran
2018 Talk, National College of Art and Design Dublin, ‘Genre painting’, Eleanor McCaughey, Talk, Marcel Vidal, Brian Harte in conversation with Diana Copperwhite.
The Dock, Co Leitrim,‘Like Me’, Eleanor McCaughey, Alice Hanratty in
conversation with Sarah Searson
Collections
Arts Council Ireland, Office of Public works, Private collections in Ireland, Europe, United States and Canada.