2025
Delighted to have the book for The Most Recent Forever a touring exhibition I had organised by the incredible Aoife Ruane at Highlanes Gallery. The show then toured to Limerick City Gallery of Art and on to Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre. The book is beautifully designed by Oonagh Young and features contributions from Ireland Professor of Poetry Vona Groarke and Prof Tim Stott with extracts from an interview I had with artist Maud Cotter. It will be available at the Dublin Art Book Fair at Temple Bar Gallery and Studios opening December 4th 2025. Looking forward to seeing the book in such great company.
My drawing MJ Four Elements is in the National Gallery of Ireland’s permanent collection exhibition An Artist’s Presence, running from 17 May – 15 Sept, 2025. There is a talk about the show by curator Katie Buckley available on the link here. My work is discussed on 26mins 18n secs.
Really delighted to have my work included in the latest edition of Winter Papers. Winter Papers is Ireland’s annual anthology for the arts, is published by Curlew Editions. It offers fiction, non-fiction, poetry, photography, visual arts, along with craft interviews and in-conversation pieces on writing, film, theatre, architecture, photography and music.
Delighted to have this little work in the Pallas ❤︎ 30 Contemporary Art Auction. Pallas Projects/Studios turns 30 in 2026. In advance of this landmark they will be holding a fundraising auction of Irish & international contemporary art from 24th November–8th December.
Bidding this year will once again take place online and is kindly supported by Gormleys auctions, who are foregoing all fees in support of Pallas and to encourage and support a new generation of contemporary artists. Prospective collectors can easily sign up, view and bid on work on their phones or tablets. Those who wish to see works up close can visit the Irish Georgian Society’s City Assembly House on South William Street, where they will be on view from 3rd–6th December. The auction catalogue link is available here
My work from the Deirdre series is included in the group show Laurence Fagan: Pen and Ink at Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda, Ireland. Featuring works by Robert Armstrong, Vivienne Byrne, Gilly Clarke, Marthe Donas, Brian Fay, Joy Gerrard, Michael Healy, Thomas Markey, Flora H. Mitchell, Richard Moore and William Orpen.
Delighted to have my drawing Head of Petrus Christus Girl used by Temple Bar Gallery + Studios for their limited edition tote bag. Lovely merch available here.
Thanks to DLR Arts Office for the Dún Laoghaire Baths Artist Studio award for 2025-26.
Thanks to everyone who attended the public discussion Artists in Conversation: Encounters with Jellett I had with artist Susan Connolly and chaired by Sarah McAuliffe, Curator of Irish Art Post 1900 at the National Gallery of Ireland.
It was lovely to speak about Mainie Jellett with artist Susan Connolly and curator Michael Waldron at Susan’s show Ground (two unfold) at Wexford Gallery of Art.
Thanks to artist Alan Phelan for the kind mention of my work in his Sunday Business Post interview.
2024
Big thanks to Temple Bar Gallery + Studios and the Goethe Institut for supporting and hosting the public conversation The Paradoxes of Drawing with curator and writer Jan Philipp Fruehsorge for National Drawing Day. A link to the conversation is available here on Soundcloud.
Thanks so much to Dr. Irina Gheorghe for the invitation to contribute to this new artistic research practice periodic publication LARGE, including beautiful contributions by Slavoíra Ondrusová and Roman Stetina and amazing design and typography by Katerina Suterová and Kristína Jandová.
Many thanks to artist Lucy O’Donnell for including me in the publication for her recent show Our Little Earthborn Tales at Ballinglen Arts Foundation. Contributors include Lucy O’Donnell, Alice Maher, Deborah Harty, Tania Kovats, Joe Graham, Pavee Point Traveller and Roma Centre, Miscarriage Association and many others.
Very happy to be involved in the Artists’ Fundraiser for Médicins Sans Frontières in aid of Palestine and Lebanon with some wonderful artists, organised by Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin, Ireland.
Delighted to hold an in-conversation with artist John Graham about his current exhibition Hold to the now, the here, through which all future plunges to the past, at the Royal Hibernian Academy (RHA) Ashford Gallery, Dublin, Ireland.
2023
Thanks so much to David Eager Maher for the generous invitation to take part in +1 group show at the wonderful jarmuschek + partner gallery, Berlin, Germany.
Very grateful to the Royal Hibernian Academy (RHA) for their kind invitation to be in this years RHA Annual with the above drawing AA Open Letter PNG.
Thanks to Peadar King for his considered response to the opening conversation with Sarah Kelleher at Uillinn, see the link here.
Really looking forward to this free event with the wonderful poet Vona Groarke at Uillinn:West Cork Arts Centre on Saturday 25th of March. It is part of Poetry Ireland’s Poetry Encounters, a series of artist-poet readings and discussions. It will also be the closing event for The Most Recent Forever national tour. Free booking via Eventbrite is available here.
Thanks to all at Drawbridge and Glucksman Gallery for the invitation to participate on the Something hidden revealed panel with Helen Farrell and Felicity Clear.
Looking forward to speaking at the launch of the book Beyond Drawing featuring works by members of Drawing deCentred at Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre with texts by Caoimhín MacGiolla Léith and artist Arno Kramer.
2022
I am so grateful to everyone at the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation in Connecticut, USA for all their kindness and hospitality during my 2 month artist residency with them.
The Most Recent Forever is reviewed in Visual Artists’ News Sheet Jan-Feb 2023, click here.
Here is documentation of the live event Some Shapes of Time. This event coincided with my show The Most Recent Forever at Highlanes Gallery. Participants were invited to respond to ideas of time from the viewpoint of their own disciplines. They included writer Niamh Campbell, poet Patrick Dillon, musician & composer Claire Fitch, artist Isadora Epstein, philosopher Dr Alison Fernandes, artist and paper conservator Niamh McGuinne, and art historian Dr Tim Stott. The event was presented in County Louth as part of the Local Live Performance Scheme. The scheme was an initiative of the Department of Tourism, Culture, Arts, Gaeltacht, Sport and Media.
A short film by Ros Kavanagh with documentation of the show The Most Recent Forever in Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda is available here.
Thanks to Hugh Campbell for his kind invitation to speak at Conversations on Joyce, drawing, photography and the city with plattenbaustudio, Dorothy Smith and Luke Gibbons at UCD Architecture.
Delighted to share this short film on the touring survey show of my work The Most Recent Forever and thanks to RTE Radio One’s Arena for interviewing me about the tour, click the link here.
Thanks to Expanded Drawing Practices for featuring my work, see the link here.
Great to be involved in the event MAYDAY: A 108-minute orbit of ‘i see Earth at Visual Carlow in response to Tom de Paor’s excellent exhibition i see Earth. For the full event click the link here.
Thanks to Joanna Kidney and Michael Geddis for the opportunity to talk with them about their 5 year collaboration at the launch of their book mergeemerge at the Mermaid Arts Centre.
Grateful to curator Dr Michael Waldron for his generous discussion of my drawing Lady Writing a Letter with Maid on Crawford Art Gallery’s Work of the Week, link available here.
2021
Here’s the link to a talk I did with curator Rachael Gilbourne as an end event to the exhibition A Mobile Living Thing, to view please click here.
Delighted to be awarded a 3 Year Membership studio in Temple Bar Gallery and Studios, Dublin beginning in February 2022.
I spoke on RTÉ Radio 1’s Arena discussing my solo show A Mobile Living Thing, see the link to the interview here.
My solo show A Mobile Living Thing opened at Municipal Gallery dlr Lexicon, Dublin, Ireland.
Great to be exhibiting again as part of the group show Second Summer at The Dock, Leitrim, Ireland. Curator Sarah Searson spoke about the exhibition on RTÉ Radio 1’s Arena. See the link here.
Thanks to Drawing de-Centred for featuring my work.
Thanks Commonage Projects for including me in the project treee: a space in common, disjointed momentarily.
2020
Delighted to hold an online studio visit for dlr Arts Office on Friday December 4th. To see the event please click here.
Thanks to UltravioletArtTalks for the opportunity to talk about my work. See the link here.
The National Gallery of Ireland have uploaded the film of the After Vermeer Project with myself Dragana Jurasic and Maser.
Looking forward to my resheduled Residency at the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation in summer 2022.
2019
Thanks to the RHA for their kind invitation to exhibit in this years Annual Exhibition as an Invited Artist.
2018
Delighted to have had the solo show To something that went before (C.S.deK) at Oonagh Young Gallery, Dublin, Ireland in November.
Excited to be in the company of Susan Connolly, Dev Covell and Jo McGonigal in the exhibition After an Act at The Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast.
2017
Some drawings from my PhD work are featured in the publication The Picture So Far, published by Archetype Press. See the link here for more information.
My large work Hidden figure in X-ray of Rembrandt Portrait of Frederick Rihel on Horseback is included in the touring exhibition The Space Between at the Oriel Gallery, Antrim Castle Gardens, the Pearse Museum, Dublin and Paliament Buildings, Stormont, Belfast, Northern Ireland.
2016
My solo show X (IR) is on in the Nag Gallery, Dublin until October 25th 2016 and was reviewed in The Irish Times – see the review here.
Some thing as a line is a show I curated for the Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda, Ireland. The exhibition presents the work of Karl Burke, Anna Bariball, Maud Cotter, Gemma Fitzpatrick, Mark Garry, Caoimhe Kilfeather, Barbara Knezevic, Damien Meade, Niamh O’Malley, Kathy Prendergast, and from the Highlanes Collection William Mulready.
I recently discussed the works of Hieronymous Bosch on RTE Radio 1’s arts programme Arena. Click on the link here to listen to the discussion.
Delighted to be part of the show Open Studio: A Conversation on Drawing curated by Mary Ruth Walsh at the RHA Studios, Dublin, open for August 25th and 26th, 2016. Great group of artists involved including amongst many Gerard Byrne, Aideen Barrry, Kathy Prendergast, Niamh O’Malley and the Pil and Galia Kollektiv.
Delighted to be one of the speakers at the Value of Art Criticism Symposium organised by the Glucksman Gallery, UCC. See here for full details.
I was invited to present at the seminar Research and Collaboration in art history and practice at the National Gallery of Ireland. The seminar responded to Sarah Pierce’s exhibition The Pathos of Distance, full details are listed here.
My drawing Vermeer Woman in Blue Reading a Letter 1662-65 was shortlisted for the Irish Times and Royal Irish Academy Modern Ireland in 100 Artworks work for 2015.
One of my notebooks is featured in the international touring initiative The Sketchbook Project. The next venue is the Brooklyn Art Library, New York.
Delighted to be speaking at the Metamporphosis Art as Research – Research as Art symposium in February. See the link below for the full list of speakers
http://metamorphosisproject.org/symposium/.
2015
I hosted a public conversation with artists Stephen Loughman & Patrick Redmond who are both featured in the Finders and Keepers show at DLR Lexicon, Dublin, Ireland.
2014
Here is a link to a review I did on curator Katharine Stout’s publication Contemporary Drawing from the 1960’s to Now, on Arena RTE Radio 1.
I reviewed This Is Bacon and This Is Gaugin, introductory books to the work of each artist for RTE Radio 1’s Arena, click here to hear the piece.
I reviewed Michaelangelo: Complete Works by Frank Zollner for RTE Radio 1’s Arena, click here to hear the piece.
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