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.