Education:
MA (Hons 2.1) Design History and Material Culture, National College of Art and Design, September 2017-September 2019. Dissertation: ‘Clothing, Crime and Punishment in Mid-Nineteenth Century Ireland’
BA (Hons 2.1) Fine Art Painting, Limerick Institute of Technology, Limerick School of Art and Design, September 2012-June 2016. Dissertation: ‘A Study of Victorian and Gothic Sensibilities within Modern Contemporary Fashion Design - Emphasis on Alexander McQueen’
Level 8 Certificate Principles of Art Therapy, MTU Crawford College of Art & Design, October 2024 – April 2025
Professional Diploma in Social Media for Government & Public Sector, Public Sector Marketing Institute, May 2023-August 2023 (Distinction)
Radio Broadcast and Podcast Training, Triple M Media, July 2021
Professional Certificate in Irish (Level 4), Gaelchultúr, March 2021 – July 2021
Embroidered Textile Design (Non-Credit Night Course), National College of Art and Design, September 2017-December 2017
Art facilitation:
2024/25 Facilitating art in primary schools in North Tipperary, Laois, and Offaly under the Teacher Artist Partnership+ (TAP+) Residency 2024 programme.
2025 (April-June) Awarded funding from Tipperary County Council under the Artist in Primary School Scheme 2025 to work on a collaborative art project with primary school children.
2025/26 I will facilitate art in primary, special, post-primary schools and youth reach centres under the Bringing Live Arts to Students & Teachers (BLAST) residency programme during the 2025/26 school year.
Art Auctions/Exhibitions:
2025 (9 April) SumGood Annual Contemporary Art Auction, Copper House Gallery, Dublin
2024 (9-10 November) Outhouse - Arthouse Art Auction, Outhouse LGBTQ+ Centre, Dublin
2024 (3-9 August) PLACE, Group exhibition. The Max, Main Street, Birr, Co. Offaly
2023 (1-31 December) ‘Small Things Like These’ Group exhibition, LHQ Gallery, Carrigrohane Road, Cork
2023 (4-5 November) Outhouse - Arthouse Art Auction, Outhouse LGBTQ+ Centre, Dublin
2022 (21-22 April) SCOOP Art Auction, Iveagh Gardens Hotel, Dublin
2022 (1-4 May) Maximalist Exhibition Spacecraft Studios, Limerick
2021 (17 September-17 October) Watershed Studios, Galway Virtual Group Exhibition (curated by Ignazio Colt Nicastro)
2021 (20-21 November) Outhouse - Arthouse Art Auction, Outhouse LGBTQ+ Centre, Dublin
2021 (23 August-2 September) Pluid Project, National Comfort Blanket Collaborative Project, The Cowshed Gallery, Farmleigh Estate, Dublin
2021 (13 August-13 September) 'Through the Looking Glass' Virtual Group Exhibition, Birr Vintage & Arts Festival Week
2020 (23-25 April) SCOOP Art Auction, hosted online at the Copper House Gallery, Dublin
2016 LSAD Degree Show (Shortlisted for the RDS Visual Artist Awards), Limerick School of Art and Design.
2015 'Unimaginable Depths' Group Exhibition, The Old Sailor’s Home, Limerick
2014 ‘Transmit’ Group Exhibition, Hunt Museum, Limerick
Public Engagement and Presentations:
2019 (April) ‘Rapid Response Collecting: Tallaght’, Presentation at the National Museum of Ireland.
2019 (April) ‘The Theft and Pawning of Clothing in Nineteenth-Century Ireland’ Presentation at RuaRed, Tallaght.
2018 and 2019 Guest speaker a Dublin Festival of History: ‘The Theft and Pawning of Clothing in Nineteenth-Century Ireland’, ‘Richard Atkinson (1796-1866), twice Lord Mayor of Dublin’, ‘The Production of Royal Irish Poplin in the Liberties in the Eighteenth- and Nineteenth- Century’
2018 (September) Researcher for Mendicity Institution’s 200th year anniversary historic exhibition at Pearse Street Library.