List of Exhibitions and Awards
Solo Shows
2009 “Paintings from a
Thousand Days” at Tinakilly Country House
Hotel
2008 "Wild Blue" at the
Old Market House Arts Centre,
Dungarvan, Co. Waterford See it reviewed here
2008 "Sea, Sky & The Square Mile" Signal Arts Centre",
Bray, Co. Wicklow
2007 “Signature” first solo show as a painter mounted in
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I am someone who relishes challenge, and this is just as well, because my life is indeed challenging. I was born without arms in 1961 and this makes my days demanding, stimulating and complex. I like it like this.

I didn’t always - because it has never been easy. All the same, I recognize that I have been really lucky.... Read more...

I got an extraordinary opportunity when I was cast in the movie 'Fur'. The movie concerns five years in the life of the famous and controversial photographer Diane Arbus. The Director, Stephen Shainberg (Secretary 2002),committed to casting real disabled people in the movie, needed a woman without arms with performance experience. Read more...

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In 1980, while at art college, I began to look at, and to question, my own fragile identity as someone who was very definitely different, disabled, and therefore, without any relevant cultural reference points. There were disability reference points all right, but they had been created by non-disabled people and regarded disabled people as tragic, pathetic or brave. Read more...