EXHIBITIONS​

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Collect Open, Crafts Council Somerset House, London

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Howgill Gallery Cumbria

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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​

 

Finalist David Shaw-Smith Legacy Award Design Craft Council of Ireland

Highly Commended Award (Un)Bound Exhibition, CraftNI 

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"

Laochra ag Fanacht, Warriors in Waiting Online publication

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, Smoke firing & Obvara workshops from own studio

Tourism NI, Tourism IE Experience provider

​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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A’Level Art and Applied Art Portfolio work, selected artist and workshop facilitator

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