Curriculum Vitae
RECENT / ONGOING / UPCOMING :
2012 Cill Rialaig Project, artist in residence, Co Kerry, IRL. 2-22 March.
2011. Choice, Works from the Permanent Collection, Co-Curator,
Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick, IRL.
2011 The Street, Per-Cent for Art Commission, Kilkenny City, IRL(awarded)
2011 Green Mines Sculpture Commission, Castlecomer Discovery Park.IRL.
2011 Rianta, Ground Up Artists Collective Exhibition, Co Clare. IRL.
2011 Welcome to the Neighbourhood, Askeaton Contemporary Arts, IRL.
2011 Elemental, solo exhibition, Butler Gallery, Kilkenny, IRL.
2011 RHA Annual Exhibition, Dublin, IRL. (by invitation).
2011 Townlands, The Courthouse Gallery, Ennistymon, Co Clare, IRL.
PUBLIC SCULPTURE COMMISSIONS .
2005 Seedstones, Ramsfort Park, Gorey, Co Wexford IRL.
2004 Harbour Light, Waterways Ireland, Ballyleague, Co Roscommon, IRL.
2003 Vortex Flow, Hacketstown, Co Carlow, IRL.
2000 The Weavers’ Gifts , Guadaloupe River Park, San Jose, Ca, USA.
1998 Reflections, Burnaby Park, Greystones, Co Wicklow, IRL.
1997 The Green, St Catherine’s Grange, Waterford Corporation, IRL.
1997 Idir Cruaiche is na Carraige, Greystones, Co Wicklow, IRL.
1996 A City Wall, Mt Erne Estate, Mayfield, Cork, IRL.
1996 Blackwater Moon, Youghal, Co Cork, IRL.
1995 The Mound of the Torches, N71, Co Cork, IRL.
1995 The Black Pool, Dublin Fine Arts Foundation, Dublin, Ca, USA
1994 In the Tides of Time, City of Santa Cruz, Ca, USA.
1993 The Wall of the Faeries, N25, Dungarvan, Co Waterford, IRL.
1992 Windfalls, Willowbrook Park, Soquel, Santa Cruz County, Ca, USA.
1990 Black Light, Frederick St Park, Santa Cruz, Ca, USA.
OTHER LARGE PUBLICLY ACCESSIBLE COMMISSIONED WORKS:
2009 Passage, Sculpture in the Parklands, Lough Boora, Co Offaly, IRL.
2001 Covenant, Construction Industry Federation, Dublin. IRL.
1995 Still Lives, Blue Oak Ranch Trust, Santa Clara, CA, USA.
1995 Eclipse, Jenkinstown Woods, Jenkinstown, Co Kilkenny, IRL.
1993 Tearmann na Gaoithe, Barr na Binne, Kilcummin Head, Co Mayo, IRL.
1993 Brothers, Shilling Hill, Boyle, Co Roscommon, IRL.
1992 The Miners Egg, The Slate Quarries, Ahenny, Co Kilkenny, IRL.
1992 Fountain, McPherson Center for Art &History, Santa Cruz, CA, USA.
1991 The Fruit of Labour, Gordon House, Inverurie, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
GRANTS AND AWARDS:
2010 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award, New York, USA.
2010 Townlands Project Research Grant, Kilkenny County Council, IRL.
2005-9 Arts Act Grants, Kilkenny County Council, IRL.
2001 Wallis Foundation Grant, USA.
1996 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award, New York, USA.
1994-5 Arts Council Travel Awards, IRL.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS and INSTALLATIONS:
2009. Point of View. Space-specific installation, Eigse Arts Festival , Carlow. IRL.
2008 Open House, Teach Mhic Dhiarmada, Laghty Barr, Co Leitrim, IRL.
2006 Small Works, Rudolf Helzel Gallery, Kilkenny Arts Festival, IRL.
2001 Prayers Before Dying,Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin, IRL.
2001 Payers before Dying, The Gallery, Cabrillo College, Aptos, CA, USA
SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2010 Townland 2 ,exhibition/installation, Johnswell Hall, Co Kilkenny, IRL.
2009 Townland 1. Joint Exhibition with Gypsy Ray, Kilkenny Arts Festival, IRL.
2009 Fís 09. Group Exhibition, Aghafar Gallery, Liverpool, U.K.
2008 Peatlands, curated by Ruairí Ó Cuív & Kevin O’Dwyer, Tullamore, Offaly, IRL.
2008 New Sites-New Fields Project Exhibition, Leitrim Sculpture Centre, IRL.
2007 Olmo/Elm/Leamhán. Kilkenny, Irl; Palacio de Cultura, Soria, Spain.
1995 Black and White, The Pope Gallery, Santa Cruz, California, USA.
1993. Five Sculptors, Pajaro Valley Arts Center, Watsonville, Ca, USA.
INVITATIONAL RESIDENCIES:
2009. Artist-in-residence, Sculpture in the Parklands, Co Offaly, IRL.
2008 New Sites-New Fields, Leitrim Sculpture Centre, Co Leitrim, IRL.
1999 Artist-in-Residence, Camphill Community Ballytobin, Co Kilkenny, IRL.
1998 Artist-in-Residence, Camphill Community Ballytobin, Co Kilkenny, IRL.
1998 The Heinrich Böll Cottage, Achill Island, Co Mayo, Ireland.
1995 Artist-in-residence,The Wilderness Sanctuary, Allihies, Co Cork, IRL.
INVITATIONAL SYMPOSIA:
1997 The Art of Place, guest artist, Yuma Symposium 18, Yuma, Arizona, USA.
1996 Bluestone Sculpture Symposium, WSA, Woodstock, New York, USA.
1995 Director, Kilkenny Limestone International Sculpture Symposium, IRL.
1995 Art in the Public Environment, SSI Conference, Dublin, IRL.
1993 “Tir Saile”, Sculpture Symposium, Co Mayo, IRL.
1992 Kilkenny Slate Quarries Symposium, Kilkenny, IRL.
1991 International Granite Carving Symposium, SSW, Scotland.
SELECT COLLECTIONS:
University of California Berkely, Blue Oak Ranch Reserve, San Jose, CA, USA.
Allied Irish Bank, Dublin, IRL.
WSA Sculpture Park,Woodstock, New York, USA.
The Wilderness Sanctuary, Allihies, Co Cork, IRL.
Grampian Regional District Council, Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
City of Santa Cruz, California, USA
Castlecomer Discovery Park, Co Kilkenny, IRL.
Mayo County Council, IRL.
CURATORIAL AND OTHER INITIATIVES.
2009-11 Project Initiator, The Townlands Project , artist-led landscape project.IRL
2008 Curator, Sculpture at Kells, Kells Priory, Kells, Co Kilkenny, IRL.
2008 Project Initiator, Six by Sundown, Callan Workhouse, w/Asylum Productions.IRL
1995 Curator, The Language of Stone, Butler House Gardens, Kilkenny Arts Festival, IRL.
SELECT ARTICLES , ESSAYS, PRESENTATIONS.
2011 An Art of Place, Heritage Outlook Magazine, Summer 2011, ISBN:1393-9777
2010 Townlands Project, presentation to Minister for Arts & Heritage and the Gaeltacht, Heritage Council.
2011 Townlands,InhabitingLandscape Memories,Maps and Monuments, Kilkenny’s Archaeological Landscapes.
2010 Making Place, Art in the Land Conference, Lough Boora, Co Offaly, IRL.
2009 Working the Land, The VAN (Visual Artist’s News Sheet); Issue 6, 2009. IRL
2008 Seeing Red, Works on Paper, KCAT, Butler Gallery.ISBN0-9548559-2-2. IRL.
2004 In Stone a Life, Stonexus magazine, The Stone Foundation,USA.
1998 The Green, full-colour broadsheet on public art installation.Waterford Corporation.IRL.
SELECT CATALOGUES AND PUBLICATIONS:
Prayers before Dying, catalogue, Two Streams Press. 40pps, ISBN: 0-9551383-0-2
A Field Name Research Handbook, Author, Two Streams Press, 70pps, ISBN:978-0-9551383-3-1
Shelters1, documentary catalogue, The Wilderness Sanctuary, 20pps, ISBN: 1 901348 01 2
Peatlands, exhibition catalogue, Sculpture in the Parklands, 50 pps. no ISBN.
Bluestone Sculpture Symposium, documentary catalogue, Woodstock School of Art, 20pps.
Sculpture at Kells 2008, curator, exhibition catalogue, Two Streams Press, 40pps. ISBN 978-0-9551383-2-4.
SELECT REVIEWS
2011 “Welcome to the Neighbourhood”, Ruth Hogan, Paper Visual Art Journal.
2011 “Forging Links with the Natural World”, Gemma Tipton, Irish Times, 17/2
2011 “Elemental”, Cristín Leach, Sunday Times, 20/2.
2011 “Time, Art, Land”. John Grande. Public Art Ecology Magazine, pps73-75.
2011 “Appreciating Art” Ní Chartaigh & O’Sullivan, Gill&McMillan.pps52-53.
2001 “Ambiguous Vessels..” Aidan Dunne, Irish Times, 27/6.
2001 “Another Life”, Michael Viney, Irish Times, 7/6
2001 “Prayers Before Dying”, Aidan Dunne, Irish Times, 20/6.
2001 “Great Art, Bone by Bone, Alan Counihan’s Meditations on Mortality”.
Wallace Baine, Santa Cruz Sentinel, USA. 15/3.
1997 “Whose woods these art.”. Kathi Norklun, Woodstock Times, New York, USA. 2/1.
1996 “Sticks and Stones”, Blaise Schweizer, Sunday Freeman, Kingston New York. USA. 29/9.
1995 “The Stone Sanctuary”, Aidan Dunne, The (Sunday)Tribune Magazine, Ireland. 15/10.