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Biography
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952 Born in Dalkey, Co Dublin, Ireland
1969 - 1973 Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology (IADT).
Lives in Coolboy, Tinahely, Co Wicklow (Tel: 0402 34960, Mobile 086 889 1699)

Public Art Commissions
2003 - Awarded Commission for Donabate Town Centre
2003 - Shortlisted for Hacketstown Public Art Commission
2002 - Awarded Commission for New Carlow Fire Station, Carlow
2001 - Shortlisted for Belmullet Co Mayo, Claremorris, Co Mayo, Mountcharles, Co Donegal and Fermoy, Co Cork, open competition
1999 - Shortlisted for 'Art on the Campshires', Dublin - open competition; St John's Quay, Waterford - direct selection
1998 - Awarded Commission for Malahide Marina - open competition
1995 - Awarded Commission for Portstewart - open competition
1990 - Shortlisted for Dun Laoghaire Fire Station Competition
1988 - Shortlisted for Tallaght Sculpture Competition, Dublin
1985 - Shortlisted for Wilton Place Sculpture Competition, Dublin

Recent Commissions
2003, 'Vigilance', Public sculpture for New Carlow Fire Station, sited 2003
2000 'Ammonite' Public sculpture for Malahide Marina, sited 2000
1996 'Fishing Boat', Public sculpture for Portstewart, Coleraine Borough Council,
'1994 'The Garden', Relief sculpture for Dunmore House, Dun Laoghaire 1994
'1992 'Repose', Public sculpture, Blackrock for Dun Laoghaire Corporation 1992.

Lecturing
1975 - 2002 Sculpture lecturer at DLIADT, Dun Laoghaire, Co Dublin

Selected Group Exhibitions
2004 'Continuity' Waterford Treasures Museum, Waterford
2004 'Anois ar Theacht an tSamhraidh' Gallery in the Pearse Family Home, Dublin.
(exhibition of contemporary sculpture in traditional materials celebrating the accession of
10 new countries to the European Union).
2003 'Open Day' Glendarragh Studios, Wicklow
'1997, 19'96, 1994, 1992 'Gateway to Art', Aer Rianta, Dublin Airport
1996, 1995, 1994 Oireachtas - Guiness Hop Store, Dublin 8.
1995 Sculpture in Context,
1992
'Oilean' - Daingean Ui Chuis
1993 Gaillimh
1995, 1995, Béal Féirste
'1991 Vice-Versa'
'1990 Espace' - Gallagher Gallery, Dublin '90
1990 Tinahely Garden's Exhibition '90
1987 Critics Choice, Limerick

Public Collections
'Stratified Sheep' Ballinaboy, Co Mayo '94
'Thus Daedalus Flew' Killiney Hill Park, Dublin '86
'Archer II', Dun Laoghaire Corporation '85
'Archer III', St Raphael's School, Celbridge, Kildare '85

Symposia:
1995 - 2004 Founder and co-ordinator of Umha Aois - Experimental Bronze Casting Symposia '
1993 'Tir Saile' Land Art Symposium, Co Mayo
1986 Dun Laoghaire Sculpture Symposium
1983 Arklow Steel Symposium
1985 Celbridge Concrete Symposium

Other Information:
2003- 2004 Member of the Board of the Sculptors' Society of Ireland
1997 - 2002 Chair of Sculptor's Society of Ireland (SSI)
1994-1995 Co-selector for Oireachtas Exhibition
2000, 1992, Co-selector for Irish Concrete Society Sculpture Competition '00, '92
1989-1988 Co-ordinator of 'Sculpture in Context', Fernhill
1988 SSI co-ordinator of 'Sculpture Stroll' at Dublin Airport
1988 SSI co-ordinator of 'Sculpture '80-'88' at St Enda's Park