BA in Fine Art
Institute of Art, Design and Technology
Dún Laoghaire

Current

40/40/40 {group show}
State Collection Touring Show
Madrid | Warsaw | Rome
March - July 2013

Three-Person Show
w/ Seán Guinan & George Warren
Hillsboro Gallery, Dublin
UNTIL 31st MAY 2013

Forthcoming

New Work {solo show}
  Ashford Gallery
  Royal Hibernian Academy
  September 2013

Solo Exhibitions

Something Thrown & Caught
  Talbot Gallery, Dublin, Sept – Oct 2012
Good Morning Mountain
  IADT Drawing Project, Dún Laoghaire, Feb 2012
Forest Bathing
  Roscommon Arts Centre, Jan - Mar 2011
Paradasaeidae
  Monster Truck Gallery, Dublin, Sept 2009
Your Boyfriends
  Signal Art Centre, Bray, Aug 2004

Selected Group Exhibitions

2012
Fast Moving Consumer Goods, Talbot Gallery
182nd RHA Annual Exhibition, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin
Fetherweight Portable Museum | Finland
  Rajatila Gallery, Tampere
  B-galleria, Turku
  Oksasenkatu, Helsinki

2011
Fetherweight Portable Museum, Catalyst Arts, Belfast
Close to the sound | Behind the melody | Near the Inaudible
  Hilltown New Music Festival
you remind me of a poem I can't remember, to a tune that may never have existed, in a place I'm not sure I've ever been to,
  in_flux, Limerick
181st RHA Annual Exhibition, Royal Hibernian Academy

2010
Something tells me it's all happening at the Zoo,
  Kevin Kavanagh, Dublin
Claremoris Open, Mayo
180th RHA Annual Exhibition, Royal Hibernian Academy

2009
Bouvard et Pecuchet, The Lighthouse, Dublin
179th RHA Annual Exhibition, Royal Hibernian Academy
Town & Country, Monster Truck, Dublin

2008
Winter Group Exhibition, Stone Gallery
Alliviate Self Doubt {Candy Collective} Versus, Dublin
November has tied me to an old dead tree,
  get word to April to rescue me, Monster Truck Gallery
Winter Salon, Temple Bar Gallery
Kingston MA Graduate Exhibition,
  Bargehouse Gallery, OXO Tower Wharf, London

2007
The BiG Store, Temple Bar Gallery & Studios, Dublin
Winter Show, The Stone Gallery, Dublin
Iontas, National Small Works Art Exhibition, Sligo
  (1st award - Selected by Michael Dempsey)
Aldketa/Athru/Change/Cambio, An Chulturlann, Belfast
Deadart Squared, The White Room, Galway
Plasticine, Monster Truck Gallery, Dublin

2006
Conspirators of Pleasure, Back Loft, Dublin
Getting on Mother's Nerves, Mother's Tank Station, Dublin
Drawing is a Verb Drawing is a Noun, The Stone Gallery, Dublin
A Wake, Mantua Arts Project, Ballinagare, Roscommon

2005
The A to Z of Drawing, The White Room, Galway
Circumstances, Oxfam Ireland, Henrietta St, Dublin

2004
Moocher, {Eek Collective} Art House, Dublin
Y.I.A.I Summer Show, Art House, Dublin
Graduate Exhibition, IADT-Dún Laoghaire
HungryAngrySexy, Concourse, Town Hall, Dún Laoghaire

Collections

State Art Collection of Ireland / OPW
AXA Insurance
Numerous private collections

Bibliography

Helen Carey, 40/40/40. DFA/OPW, 2013

Roisin Russell. Review of Something Thrown & Caught, Paper Visual Art Journal, 2013

Michael Dempsey, ‘Fear Not’, Iontas catalogue, 2007

Aidan Kelly, ‘Bennie Reilly’, Candy Culture, candyculture.net
Issue 7, 2007

Sarah Pierce, ‘Getting on Mother’s Nerves – psychological drama and contemporary drawing’ Mother’s Annual, Dogbowl&Bones, 2006