Resume
Born & raised in Ireland
Resides and works on Salt Spring Island
Canada
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 - Reflections Gibsons Public Art Gallery, Gibsons, BC
2015 - Water East Side Culture Crawl, 716 East Hastings,
2014 - Ballymahon Swimming Series Eastside Culture Crawl, 716, East Vancouver
2012 - My Sister in Benghazi, Images of the Libyan Revolution from the Landscape of Canada,
Kais Al -Hilail Gallery, Benghazi, Institute, Benghazi, Libya
2011 - My Sister In Benghazi, Fine Arts Gallery, Kwantlen University, Surrey.
2006 - Prayer Boxes Kwantlen Art Gallery, Kwantlen Polytechnic University
2004 - Illumination Amelia Douglas Gallery, Douglas College, New Westminster, B.C.
2004 - Transitions Kwantlen University College, Surrey, B.C.
2001 - Blue Rain East Vancouver Cultural Center, Vancouver B.C.
1999 - Recent Work 2331 Granville Street, Vancouver, B.C.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 - 23rd. Annual Juried Member’s Exhibition Leighton Art Center, Alberta, Canada
2024 - 194th. RHA Annual Exhibition Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Ireland.
2023 - A Closer Look : Nature and Materials Mahon Hall, Salt Spring Island
2023 - Parallel Exhibition Salt Spring Island, People’s Choice Award 2nd. Place
2021 - Landscape/ Monochrome Mahon Hall, Salt Spring
2019 - Parallel Art Show Mahon Hall, Salt Spring Island
2017 - Parallel Art Show Mahon Hall, Salt Spring Island
2015 - Salt Spring National Art Prize Salt Spring Island BC
2015 - Parallel Show Arts Spring Salt Spring Island
2015 - Second Growth 2 Person Exhibition Duthie Gallery, Salt Spring Island
2014 - Faculty Exhibition Arbutus Gallery Kwantlen Polytechnic
2012 - Mirror, Mirror Juried Self Portrait Exhibition, Surrey Arts Center
2011 - Absorption, Reflection, Illumination Cityscapes Art Gallery North Vancouver, BC
2011 - Art School Confidential Faculty Exhibition, Kwantlen University, Surrey, BC
2009 - Echo Chamber Juried Exhibition, Chapel Arts, Vancouver BC
2008 - Arcade Kwantlen Faculty Exhibition, Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey,
2008 - Gallery 716, East Hastings Street, Vancouver BC
2005 - Watermark 2005 works on paper, juried exhibition, juror, Janette Hopper, University of North Carolina
2005 - Council Juried Summer Exhibition Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey BC. 2ND. Place Award Winner.
2005 - Extending The Line Juried Drawing Exhibition, Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey BC. 1st. Place Award
2005 - Women In The Middle: Borders, Barriers, Intersections Juried Exhibition of Feminist Art, Union Art
Gallery University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee.
2005 - Faculty Art Exhibition Kwantlen University College, Surrey, BC
2005 - Wood, Metal and Light Cityscape Art Space, North Vancouver Arts Council, Lonsdale, North Vancouver
2003 - Valentine Show Versatile Gallery, North Vancouver, B.C.
2002 - Five Square Miles Cityscape Art Space, North Vancouver
2002 - Faculty Art Exhibition Kwantlen University College, Surrey BC
2001 - Figurative Painting Red and Gold Gallery, Seattle, Washington
2001- Artropolis Exhibition, Vancouver, B.C.
1998 - Myth and Metaphor Ferry Building, West Vancouver, B.C.
1998 - Irish Women Artists Irish House, London, England
1997 - The Water is Wide - Festival Interceltique, De Lorient, L’ Imaginaire Irelandais
1993 - A Sense of Place 1 Oxford St. Gallery, Belfast, Northern Ireland
1992 - Faculty Show Kwantlen College Arts Center, Whiterock, B.C.
1991 - Faculty Exhibition Kwantlen College Surrey Arts Center, Surrey,
1989 - Artists in the Square, Robson Square Media Center, Vancouver, Ulster and Berlin, CAG Vancouver
1986 - M.F.A. Graduation Exhibition, Nickel Arts Center, Calgary.
1985 - Still Wet Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Alberta
1982 - Clairemorris Open Annual Exhibition First Place Award Winner, Co. Mayo, Ireland
1981 - Five Young Artists Art and Research Exchange, Belfast, Northern Ireland
AWARDS AND GRANTS
2023 - Parallel Exhibition, Salt Spring Island, People’s Choice Award 2nd. Place
2012 - BC Arts Council Award
2009 - Research and Scholarship award, Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Surrey, BC
2008 - Research and Scholarship award, Kwantlen University College
2005 - Surrey Juried Summer Show, 2nd Place Award Winner
2005 - Extending the Line Juried Drawing Exhibition, Surrey Art Gallery, 1st. Place Winner
1982 - Clairmorris Open Annual Exhibition 1st. Place Award, Co. Mayo, Ireland
PUBLIC ART
2022 - Avian Memories, Mahon Hall, Salt Spring Island
2004 - Orcas in the City, Project for The B.C. Lion’s Society.
2003 - Essential Elements, Collaborative Piece 60-Meter-long sculptural installation, City of North Vancouver,
EXHIBITION CATALOGUES
2024 - RHA Summer Show 2024 Exhibition Catalogue
2017 - Salt Spring National Arts Prize Catalogue
2004 - Women in the Middle: Barriers, Boarders, and Intersections
2001 - Artropolis 2001
1997 - Ars Mundi, 4th. International Conference of the Visual Arts
1996 - The Water is Wide, - Festival Interceltique, De Lorient, as part of L’ Imaginaire Irelandais
1986 - Still Wet, Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Alberta.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2012 - Exhibition in Benghazi, Michel Cousins, Libya Herald, Sept. 2012
2012 - A world Apart, Pulp Magazine, Fall 2012
2011 - My Sister In Benghazi at Kwantlen University, Georgia Straight,
1998 - Thinking of home, North Shore News, Friday, November 26,
1996 - The Water is Wide Flows To Lorient, Galway Advertiser,
1996 - Women of the West give their overview of Irish life, City Tribune,
1989 - Boots made for talkin’ at Artists in Square show, Vancouver Sun
1986 - No Bronze Broncos, Louise Bresky, Calgary Magazine, May 1986
1983 - Overloaded and under-crowded, Brian Trench, The Irish Sunday Tribune, May 1st. 1983
INVITED GUEST LECTURES
2023 - Artist Talk, A Closer Look : Nature and MaterialsExhibition, Salt Spring
2005 - Collecting Art, East Vancouver Cultural Centre, Vancouver,
2004 - Women Speaker Series, Douglas College
2003 - Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, B.C.
2002 - Collingwood School, West Vancouver, B.C.
1986 - University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta.
COMMUNITY ACTIVITY
2024 - Juror, Salt Spring Arts, 2024 Artist in Residence
2009 - Juror, Cityscape Art Gallery, North Vancouver, Juror, Public Art Selection Committee, North Vancouver
2006 - Board member, Langley Arts Council
2004/2005 - Public Art Selection Committee, for the new Surrey Museum.
2003 - Surrey Art Gallery, Summer Exhibition
2003 - North Vancouver, Art in Public Spaces
EDUCATION
1986 - MFA University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
1982 - BFA, University of Ulster, Belfast, Northern Ireland.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2009 - 2017 - Painting, Drawing and Senior Studio Instructor Kwantlen Polytechnic University, Surrey BC
2004 - 2007 - Chair of Fine Arts Faculty, Kwantlen University College,
1989 - 2017 - Painting and Drawing Instructor, Kwantlen University College, Surrey, B.C.
2000 - Senior Studio Instructor, Spring Session, Emily Carr University, Vancouver, B.C.
