Education

1984 – 1985       Bournville College of Art, UK

1985 – 1988       B.A., Bath Academy of Art, UK

2000 – 2002       M.A., National College of Art and Design, Dublin

Solo Exhibitions

2022     “Schmerzbau: it’s not all just misery”, The Model, Sligo (with publication).

“The Trotskys in Kilsheelan and other histories of unreliable origin”, South Tipperary Arts Centre, Clonmel.

2021     “La Place des Grands Abysses”, Uillinn (West Cork Arts Centre), Skibbereen.

2020     “La Place des Grands Abysses”, Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris, France.

2019     ‘No Soap, Radio’, Oonagh Young Gallery, Dublin.

‘Café Abyss’, Walthamstow Borough of Culture 2019, London (As the Domestic Godless).

2018     ‘The Food, The Bad & The Ugly’, Galway International Arts Festival, Galway Arts Centre; Uillinn, Skibbereen; Solstice, Navan; Regional Arts Centre, Letterkenny; Callan Workhouse, Kilkenny. (As the Domestic Godless).

2017     ‘Parc du Souvenir’, Oonagh Young Gallery, Dublin.

            ‘Parc du Souvenir’, Sirius Arts Centre, Cobh.

2016     ‘Parc du Souvenir’, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland.

2014     ‘From the Last Travelogue of A. Sitzfleisch.’, Norwich Cathedral, commissioned for the Norfolk & Norwich Festival.

‘From the Last Travelogue of A. Sitzfleisch.’, Illuminations Gallery, National University of Ireland, Maynooth.

2013     ‘April 22nd: From the Last Travelogue of A. Sitzfleisch.”, Royal Hibernian Academy Gallery, Dublin.

2010     ‘The Last Travelogue of Joseph M.’, Millennium Court, Portadown, Northern Ireland.

‘Tumbleweed’, Rubicon Gallery, Dublin.

2009     ‘A Grand Tour of the Invisible North’, Galerie Robert Drees, Hannover, Germany.

2008     ‘Walpurgisnacht’, Rubicon Gallery, Dublin.

2007     ‘Why Travel? Right Here is Fantastic!’, ‘Rabid A’/Ardbia Gallery, Galway, Ireland.

2006     ‘Klutz Paradiso’, RHA Gallery, Dublin, Ireland. (with catalogue)

‘Chutzparadiso’, West Cork Arts Centre, Skibbereen, Ireland.

2005     ‘Travelogue’, Rubicon Gallery, Dublin.

2004     ‘Ways of Escape’, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin.

Selected Group Exhibitions

2024      “Now You See It…”, Crawford Gallery, Cork

            “Tulca 2024: The Salvage Agency”, Galway University.

             “The Barely Fair”, Expo Chicago 2024, Colour Club, Chicago, USA.

             “Coalescence”, Lavit Gallery, Cork.

2023     “Other Worlds”, Crawford Gallery, Cork.

            “Radical Archaeologies”, Glucksman Gallery, UCC, Cork

             “Periodical Review – Maslow’s Hammer”, Pallas Projects, Dublin.

2020     “Winter Salon”, Laurent Delaye Gallery, Ramsgate, UK.

2019     ‘From the Mountain’, Wexford Arts Centre & Wexford County Hall.

2018     ‘The Expanded Field’, Carthage Hall, Lismore Castle Arts, Ireland. (As The Domestic Godless)

             ‘Café Abyss’, ANTI, Athens Biennale, 2018, Greece. (As The Domestic Godless)

2017     ‘This Is Not Architecture’, Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda.

             ‘Waiting for the Barbarians’, Hotel Bageion, Athens Biennale, Greece. (As The Domestic Godless).

2016     ‘Bandits Live Comfortably in the Ruins.’ Flat Time House, London, UK.

2015     ‘Compression’, Ormston House, Limerick. (Curated by Ed Krcma).

            ‘Out There, Thataway!’, Centre for Contemporary Art, Derry-Londonderry, NI.

           ‘Reverse! Pugin.’ Carthage Hall, Lismore Castle, Co Waterford, Ireland.

2014     ‘From Safety to Where?, Kunstvlaai 2014, Amstelpark, Amsterdam.

‘Phoenix Rising: Art and the Civic Imagination’, Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, Dublin.

2013     ‘Undercover: A Dialect’, Visual, Carlow. (Curated by Michele Horrigan).

‘Prelude Speaker’, Castletown House, Kildare. (As The Domestic Godless)

2012     ‘Last’, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Trinity College, Dublin.

’48-Sheet’ – City-wide Billboard project: Birmingham, U.K.

             ‘The Hellfire Club’: Askeaton Contemporary Arts, Askeaton, Ireland.

‘New Acquisitions’, National Self-Portrait Collection of Ireland, Limerick University.

2011     ‘Stephen Brandes, Andrew Dodds, Sonia Shiels’, Galway Arts Centre, Galway.

‘Twenty’, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin.

‘Wake Amusements’, Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis College of Art & Design, Los Angeles, USA.

‘Subplots’, Galerie AllerArt, Bludenz, Austria

2010     ‘Utopia/Dystopia’, Catalyst Arts Centre, Belfast, NI.

‘What Happens Next is a Secret’, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (as The Domestic Godless with Mick O’Shea and Irene Murphy).

2009     ‘Into Irish Drawing’, Limerick City Gallery, Limerick, Ireland; Aktuele Kunst Hengelo, The Netherlands; Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris.

‘Gracelands’, Dromahair, Co Leitrim, Ireland.

2008     ‘economicthoughtprojects’, Ardbia Gallery, Berlin, Germany. (exhibition and 7” record launch with Canell/Watkins, Pil & Galia Kollectiv and others)

  ‘Drawings’, AMT Gallery, Milan, Italy.

2007     ‘Girl Power and Boyhood’, Stavanger Kulturhus, Norway.

‘[C]artography – map making as an artform’, Crawford Municipal Art Gallery, Cork.  ‘Your Position as Much as your Environment’, Model Arts and Niland Gallery, Sligo

2006     ‘Cross the Line’, Galerie Conrads, Düsseldorf, Germany.

‘Girl Power and Boyhood’, Kunsthallen Brandts, Odense, Denmark.

2005     Irish Pavilion, 51st Venice Biennale, Italy

‘live’, InterimProjekte, Frankfurt, Germany (with Nina Canell, Theresa Nanigan, Alex Rose).

  ‘C2’, Crawford Municipal Gallery, Cork

EuroJet Futures ’05, RHA Gallery, Dublin

‘On Leaving and Arriving’, g39 contemporary artspace, Cardiff, Wales.

2004     ‘Tir na nOg’, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin

‘The Retreat’, City Limits, Melbourne

‘ArtFutures’, Contemporary Art Society, City of London School, London

‘Drawn’, Schick Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York

2003     ‘Necessary Journeys’, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin

‘Permaculture’, Project Art Centre, Dublin

‘The National Gallery’, Goethe Institute, Dublin

‘Pavilion’, Crawford Municipal Gallery, Cork

‘Artists/Groups’, Project Art Centre, Dublin. (Inc cooking performance as The Domestic Godless with Mick O’Shea)

2002     ‘EuroJet Futures’, R.H.A. Gallery, Dublin

‘N.C.A.D. M.A. Show’, Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery, Dublin

1999     ‘Drawing Thinking’, R.H.A. Gallery, Dublin

1998     ‘EV+A’, Limerick

1997     ‘A Metaphor for Ireland’, Fuller Gallery, Boston University, USA.

1996     ‘Art of the State’ – New work from the collection of the Office of Public Works, Crawford Municipal Gallery, Cork & tour.

1989     ‘16th John Moore’s Liverpool Exhibition’, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool.

Curatorial Projects

2014     ‘Beasts of England, Beasts of Ireland’, Visual, Carlow.

2013     Norfolk & Norwich Arts Festival visual arts programme. (Rhona Byrne, Caroline McCarthy, Brian Griffiths)

2011     ‘When Flanders Failed’, RHA Gallery, Dublin. (with Matt Packer)

2005     ‘Superbia 2’, Douglas, Cork. For Cork 2005 European City of Culture.

2002     ‘Superbia’, Ballymun, Dublin.

Collections

The Irish Museum of Modern Art,

Office of Public Works,

The Arts Council, AIB Bank,

The National Collection,

Crawford Gallery Cork,

National Self Portrait Collection, Limerick University,

Limerick City Gallery.