Born
27 October, 1971 in Montréal, Québec, Canada
Lives and works in Ireland and Berlin
Education
2001...Master Printer Training Program (Lithography, with Master Printer Bill Lagattuta)
..........Tamarind Institute, Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.A.
1996...Diploma in Graphic and Web Design, Collège Lasalle, Montréal, Québec, Canada
1994...Bachelor of Fine Arts, Concordia University, Montréal, Québec, Canada
1993...Exchange Programme, École de beaux-arts de Nîmes, France
Projects/Residencies
2008
Visiting
Artist, Kultur+ e.V.
Berlin, Germany
Self-directed residency (painting, nine months)
Six
months in South Africa collaborating with William Kentridge
on a series of large-scale lithograph/collages and printed paper sculptures.
Ten
months in Australia working with Indigenous Australian artists
in remote outback communities. Each workshop resulted in a series
of etchings
and lithographs which were exhibited in galleries and museums around
Australia.
Six
months in southern Africa at The Artists’ Press (South Africa)
and the Kuru Art Project (Botswana) producing new paintings and working
on print and artist book projects with San/Bushman artists from the
Kalahari Desert.
Master
Printer, 1st European Lithography Symposium
Munich, Germany
Collaborative project with six German artists to produce “Slow
Food” a large-
format print portfolio, exhibited at the Pinakothek der Moderne Museum.
Artist-in-Residence,
Steindruck München Workshop
Munich, Germany
Self-directed residency (lithography, two months).
Artist-in-Residence,
Seacourt Print Workshop
Bangor, Co. Down, Northern Ireland
Self-directed residency (printmaking, one month)
Visiting Artist
and Master Printer, Ballagh Studio
Malin, Co. Dhún na nGall, Ireland
Self-directed residency and collaborative projects (printmaking,
two months)
Cló
Ceardlann na gCnoc Studio www.clo.ie
Na Doirí Beaga, Co. Dhún na nGall, Ireland
Collaborating with Ian Joyce on “Watershed”, a commissioned
print installation for the
Clinton International Peace Centre, Enniskillen, Northern Ireland;
and “The Falling
Upward of Things”, a sculpture/video performance for the 2002
Belfast Festival.
Tamarind
Institute http://tamarind.unm.edu
Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.A.
Apprentice Master Printer, working on various projects in lithography
and
monotype with artists such as Hung Liu, Emmi Whitehorse and Jim Dine.
Awards
2004 ...Donegal County Council Residency Grant (Ireland)
2003 ...Údaras na Gaeltachta Exhibition Costs Grant (Ireland)
2002 ...Sheila H. Mackay Foundation Project Grant (Canada)
1999 ...Tamarind Institute Entrance Scholarship (U.S.A.)
1997 ...Curve Magazine Design Competition (U.S.A.)
1990 ...Concordia University Entrance Scholarship (Canada)
1989 ...Ontario Scholar Scholarship (Canada)
xxxx ...Art Gallery of Ontario/Shell Oil
Printmaking Scholarship (Canada)
Public Collections
Allied Irish
Bank (AIB) Group (Ireland)
Canson Talens Corporation (U.S.A.)
Clinton International Peace Centre (UK)
Concordia University (Canada)
Eurochemie, Inc. (Canada)
Seacourt Print Workshop (UK)
Shell Oil (Canada)
University of New Mexico (U.S.A.)
• ...
and private collections worldwide
Exhibitions (selection)
2009
Forgotten Places (solo) (runs until 14th March, 2009)
Galerie elm75, Berlin, Germany
2008
Zu
Hause (At Home) (solo)
Die Rote Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Die
Neue Kätelhön (invitational group show)
Kätelhön Kunst, Wamel, Germany
5th
Annual Lithography Symposium (juried group show)
Tidaholm, Sweden
New Artists
(invitational show of artists represented by the gallery)
Galerie Baliz, Montréal, Québec, Canada
Christmas
(invitational group show)
Tom Caldwell Gallery, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Schrift auf der Wand (Writing on the Wall) (solo)
Bildungszentrum, Brannenburg, Germany
Úll na
hAíthne (solo)
An Dánlann Dearg, Gaoth Dobhair, Co. Dhún na nGall,
Ireland
Forbidden Fruit
(solo)
Münchner Künstlerhaus, Munich, Germany
Artists’
Books (group show)
Wexford Arts Centre, Wexford, Ireland
Obhair
Bheag (juried group show)
An Dánlann Dearg, Gaoth Dobhair, Co. Dhún na nGall,
Ireland
Donegal
Annual (juried group show)
Glebe Gallery, Glenveagh Castle, Co. Dhún na nGall, Ireland
Water
(juried group show)
Harwood Art Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.A.
Nature
and Her Elements (duo with Erika Adams)
Harwood Art Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico, U.S.A.
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