EXHIBITIONS​

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

Oriel Gallery & Georgian Gallery 

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Collect Open, Crafts Council Somerset House, London

 

Craft NI Gallery Select Exhibitions

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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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​Royal Ulster Academy, Ulster Museum 

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Thrown Contemporary  London 

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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​

 

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 Potters’ 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 guest speaker, EARTH MADE Exhibition

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

Featured ceramic artist in "Irish Ceramics, The very best of Irish contemporary ceramics book"

​Guest speaker, West Forest Potters Guild

​Featured artist in 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

​​“One to watch” BBC NI The Arts Show

Speaker at Ceramics & it’s future Symposium, Millennium Gallery

​​Speaker Creative Trails App launch, Creative Momentum, FE McWilliam’s Gallery

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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, Permanent maker

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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

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

​​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 

​​​Demonstrator, Celebrating Ceramics, Oxford

​Demonstrator, Seamus Heaney HomePlace Museum

​​Demonstrator, Open House Festival, Bangor

​​Heritage Craft, Pottery Thrower

​​Creative Peninsula Open Studio Tours

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

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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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