High Points of Last 3 years
2025 "Revealing the river, Becoming the Sea" Solo show at Wicklow Library
2024 Awarded an Arts Council Bursary through Wicklow County Council Arts Office Artist Award Scheme
2022 Invited speaker at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, New York City
celebrating the work of Lorenza Böttner (1959-1994)
2022 Publication Irish Art, 1920-2020 Perspectives on Change by Catherine Marshall & Yvonne Scott
Solo Exhibitions (as a Painter)
2023 'From Left Field' solo exhibition at Kenmare Buttermarket Gallery, Kenmare Co Kerry
2022 ‘The Turning’ solo exhibition at The Courthouse Arts Centre, Tinahely, Co Wicklow
2017 ‘The Goose Field’ at Signal Arts, Bray
2012 ‘Tide Tumble’ at Clew Bay Gallery, Westport
2009 ‘Paintings from a Thousand Days’, at Tinakilly House, part of Wicklow Arts Festival
2008 ‘Wild Blue’ at Old Market House Arts Centre, Dungarvan
2008 ‘Sea, Sky & The Square Mile’ at Signal Arts, Bray
2007 ‘Signature’, at Bold Gallery, Galway
Selected Group Exhibitions as a Painter
Dec 2022 6th Annual Members Exhibition, GOMA, Waterford
2018/16/15 Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibitions, Dublin
2018 National Maritime Museum, Dun Laoghaire, exhibition
2015/14/13/12 Green Acres Gallery, Wexford
2006/07/08 Group Shows, the Bold Gallery, Galway
2006 Mermaid Arts Centre (shortlisted) Open Submission, Bray
1989 Arnott's Portrait Prize exhibition
Honours & Awards:
2021 Associate Artist, Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray (May- Dec ‘21)
2020 Visual Arts Bursary, Arts Council of Ireland
2016 Art Connect New Work Bursary Arts Disability Ireland
2015 Bronze Award Wexford Art in the Open
2014 Gold Mayoral Award Wexford Art in the Open
2013 Artists’ Choice Award Wexford Art in the Open
2012 Silver Award Wexford Art in the Open
2011/09/07 Visual Arts bursaries awarded by ADI (funded by both Arts Councils on island of Ireland)
2003 Awarded an Honorary Doctor of Laws by the National University of Ireland, in recognition of seminal
contribution to the international disability arts movement
1998 Dept. of Foreign Affairs Cultural Award (Tokyo, Japan)
1997 Art flight Travel Award (Washington, DC)
1995 Art flight Travel Award New York, to exhibit at the Slusser Gallery
1994 Travel Award, Arts Council of Ireland (London)
1990 Travel Award, Arts Council of Ireland to San Francisco
1990 Cultural Travel Award from the Dept of Foreign Affairs
1989 Bursary in Visual Arts from the Arts Council of Ireland
Selected Bibliography
2022 'Irish Art, 1920-2020 Perspectives on Change' by Catherine Marshall & Yvonne Scott
2005 ‘Beauty in Art 1750 - 2000 Elizabeth Prettejohn published by Oxford University Press as part of the Oxford History of Art, 2005
2004 ‘Classics and the Uses of Reception’ Prettejohn, pub. University of Plymouth
2001 ‘Feminism-Art-Theory: An Anthology 1968-2000’ Robinson, Hilary, Publisher: Blackwell
1995 ‘New Feminist Art Criticism - Critical Strategies’ Katy Deepwell, (ed) Pub. Manchester University Press
1995 ‘Enforcing Normalcy - Disability, Deafness & the Body’ Lennard J Davis, pub. by Verso, 1995
1995 ‘Staring Back; Disabled Women Performance Artist Rewrite Disability’ Rosemarie Garland Thomson
1992 ‘The Female Nude - Art, Obscenity and Sexuality’ Lynda Nead, pub. by Routledge, 1992
Selected List of Other Exhibitions & Events of Photo, Video + Performance
2022 Speaker at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, New York City in connection with exhibition of the work of Lorenza Böttner (1959-1994)
2022 ‘Speech Sounds’ Invited to exhibit at Visual Carlow curated by Iarlaith Ni Fheorais and VISUAL Carlow
2000 Stories of a Body’ performed at K4, Ljubljana, Slovenia
1998 ‘Love’s Body’ participated in this exhibition of photographic representation of the body in 20th century which toured Japan for 18 months
1997 Invited as a speaker at The Lancaster LitFest, England
1997 Performance and talk at the International Conference of Women with Disabilities, Washington, USA
1995 Exhibition & performance at the Slusser Gallery, University of Michigan, U.S.A.
1995 Performance commissioned by Locus+, U.K, at Tullie House, Carlisle and Catalyst Arts, Belfast
1995 Performance at the Project Arts Centre, Dublin
1994 Exhibition and Performance at The Diorama, London
1994 Performance at the Institute of Contemporary Art, London
1994 ‘I Grew Up Being Grateful’ contribution to ‘Inside Out’, Arts Council School Touring Show
1993 Performance at the Old Museum Art Gallery, Belfast
1992 ‘Wild, Untamed & Ungrateful’ solo exhibition at Pavilion in Leeds, U.K
1992 Invited to make an addition to the National Self-Portrait Collection
1992 Performance at The Green Room, Manchester
1992 ‘The Fifth Province: Contemporary Art from Ireland’ (toured Canada)
1991 ‘Upstart’ European festival of artists with disabilities
1991 ‘Telling Tales’ solo exhibition & performance, Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield
1991 ‘Eurotica’ at the Melkweg, Amsterdam, Holland
1990 ‘A New Tradition - Irish Art in the Eighties’, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin
1990 ‘The Difficult Image’ at New Langton Arts, San Francisco photographic exhibition about censorship that included work by
Robert Maplethorpe and in response to his controversy
1990 ‘Stories of a Body’ Gracie Fields Live Art Commission
1990 ‘Between Ourselves’ first one person show facilitated by a 1989 Arts Council bursary in the Visual Arts and residency in the
Belltable Art Centre, Limerick
1989 ‘Pride & Prejudice’ selected for ‘Art Beyond Barriers’, Royal Hospital Kilmainham
1989 Above selected for the Frauen Museum, Bonn
1989 ‘Beyond the Barriers’ Major photographic commission from Camerawork, London which toured the UK for 18 months
1988 ‘Cutting the Ties that Bind’ for ‘Heroes’, the Arts Council Show touring secondary schools
1988 ‘Asking for It’ GPA Awards for Emerging Artists
1987 ‘Wishbone’ and ‘A Political Weapon’ EVA, Limerick
1987 ‘The Politics of Identity’ exhibited and lectured in Boston, New York, and San Francisco
1986 Independent Artists Exhibition, ‘The Body Politic’
1985 ‘Eye to Eye’ Irish Women Artists in London, exhibited work and delivered paper to the forum
1984 ‘Realignment’ Performance with Alanna O'Kelly in Belfast
1984 ‘Touches and Changes’ shortlisted for G.P.A. Awards for Emerging Artists
1983 Project Ability at Third Eye Centre, Glasgow
Education:
1991 - 1993: Masters in Equality Studies, UCD, Dublin
1980 - 1983: Diploma in Art & Visual Education, (2:1) National College of Art & Design, Dublin
1979 - 1980: Certificate in Visual Studies, National College of Art & Design, Dublin
