EXHIBITIONS​

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Collect Open, Crafts Council Somerset House, London

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EARTH MADE Arts Council NI supported collaborative exhibitions with textile artist, Ruth Osbourne

Oriel Gallery & Georgian Gallery

 

Royal Ulster Academy, Ulster Museum 

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Thrown Contemporary  London 

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Craft NI Gallery Select Exhibitions

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Imprints in the Earth, ceramic exhibition, The Griffin Gallery

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Causeway Craft Trail Artists, Flowerfield Arts Centre 

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​Ceramics Ireland Select Members’ Exhibitions, Dublin Castle, Cowshed Gallery, Pearce Museum

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North Down Craft Collective Exhibitions North Down Museum, Ards Arts Centre, Griffin Gallery, The Loft Gallery

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​Mother Earth, Strule Arts Centre ​

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Creative Peninsula Principal Exhibitions, Ards Arts Centre 

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Copeland Collective Exhibitions

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ForM Sculpture Exhibitions, Walled Garden, Bangor ​

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Solo Exhibition, Loft Gallery “Working with the elements” 

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Creative Momentum, representing Northern Ireland, The Art Hub, Urkult, Sweden 

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Castle Espie Select Exhibition, Nature through Art 

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Haptik Gallery, Small Works Show 

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Fireland The Loft Gallery 

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AWARDS​

 

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Practitioners Bursary, Causeway Coast & Glens

Arts Council of Northern Ireland Individual Artist Award 

Crafts Potters Association Charitable Trust

Design Craft Council of Ireland, Design Ireland 

​The Potters’ Potter Award, Belfast Potter's Market 

​​Individual Artist’s Grant, Ards and North Down Borough Council 

​Work selected for Poster Campaign, The Creative Peninsula, Ards Arts 

​Selected Maker for Scarva Pottery Supplies Calendar 

​Nominated as “One to Watch” Craft NI for BBC NI The Arts Show 

​Representing Northern Ireland, Creative Momentum, Arts Hub, Urkult, Sweden 

​Margaret Creevy Prize “Best Achievement in Applied Art” South Eastern Regional College 2014

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RESIDENCES

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Awarded Residency at Ballinglen Arts Foundation , Co. Mayo by Ards and North Down Borough Council 

​Copeland Island residency in association with Copeland Island Observatory & Ards Arts 

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COMMISSIONS

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Trophies for Signal Business Centre, Young Chef of the Year 

​​"Bogland" Lectern commissioned by Seamus Heaney, HomePlace, The Helicon Theatre

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COLLECTIONS

 

​Permanent collection of pit fired and Bogland work, The Portico, Portaferry

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PUBLICATIONS & MEDIA

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Earth Rising Irish Museum of Modern Art, salon speaker "Earth made"

Exhibiting at Collect Open, guest speaker CraftNI

Artwalk,  EARTH MADE Exhibition speaker

​Collect Open maker to speak at Collect Art Fair, Somerset House, "Traditions lost, new creativity found"

"Irish Ceramics, The very best of Irish contemporary ceramics book" featured artist​

West Forest Potters Guild, guest speaker

​Ireland's Homes, Interiors & Lifestyle magazine, featured artist

​​Ceramics Ireland “Celebrating 40 years of maker and community” featured artist

​BBC Countryfile Autumn Special, featured artist​​

Freckle Magazine, featured artist

BBC NI The Arts Show, ​​“One to watch”

Ceramics & it’s future Symposium, Millennium Gallery, speaker​

Creative Trails App launch, Creative Momentum, FE McWilliam’s Gallery, speaker

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SELECTED DESIGNER-MAKER

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​Craftworks, Shoreditch

Art in Clay, Farnham

​Ceramic Wales

Celebrating Ceramics, Waterperry Gardens

​Potfest Compton Verney & Scotland 

​FE McWilliams Gallery

​Belfast Potter's Market

​Art on the rails, Project 24, Bangor

​​​NCC&G Artisan Craft 

​​CLAY 20: Festival of Clay, Devon

​​The Guildhall, Derry Art fair

​​​​Creative Peninsula

​​Turf and Grain Magazine Select Artisan Fair

​​Armagh Arts Centre Craft Fair

​​​Art&, York

​​Creative Hub, Urkult, Sweden

​ND Craft Collective

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TEACHING, DEMONSTRATIONS, WORKSHOP FACILITATOR

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Current from 2015 Pit Firing, Barrel firing & Obvara workshops from own studio

​August Craft Month, demonstrator Bushmills

​​Celebrating Ceramics, Oxford, demonstrator

BBC Radio 4 Gardeners’ Question Time, ​​invited demonstrator

​​Art on the Rails, Project 24, Bangor

​​CLAY 20: Festival of Clay, Devon

​Maker Showcase, The Craftroom, Comber

​​“Hands Festival” An Creagan Pit firing workshop

​​Experimental Archaeology, QUB, facilitator Building a Bronze Age Kiln 

​​​Celebrating Ceramics, Oxford, ​​demonstrator

​Seamus Heaney HomePlace Museum, ​demonstrator

​​Open House Festival, Bangor, ​​demonstrator

​​Heritage Craft, Pottery Thrower

​​Creative Peninsula Open Studio Tours

​​Antrim & Larne, Ards & North down Borough Councils, demonstrator

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On-going from 2014 A’Level Art and Applied Art Portfolio work, selected artist and workshop facilitator

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