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2009-present Jewellery designer/maker
2009-present Designer at Workhouse Studios
2011 2nd Level Craft Project Residency with CCoI and PDST in Ballinode Community College, Sligo, Ireland
  CRAFTed programme- 4 week teaching residency in St Edwards National School, Sligo, Ireland
2009 Craft in the Classroom Project- 6 week teaching residency in Hunt National School, Mohill, Co. Leitrim, Ireland
2008 Co-founded Workhouse Studios, Kilmacthomas, Co. Waterford, Ireland
 

Education

2009 - 2011 FETAC Award in Business and Retail, Co. Waterford VEC, Kilmacthomas, Co. Waterford, Ireland
2004 - 2008 B.A. (1.1) Craft Design- Metals and History of Art and Design, National College of Art & Design, Dublin, Ireland
2007 Erasmus exchange- University of Applied Sciences, Lahti, Finland
2003 - 2004 FETAC Award in Art and Design, GTI, Galway, Ireland
   

Exhibitions

Sept 2012 Turning Leaves, Bluecoat Display Center, Liverpool, UK
Jun 2012 Rings, Just Rings, Gallery Violaine Ulmer, Toulouse, France
Apr 2012 Faszination Papier, Le Vigan Gard, France
Mar 2012 Faszination Papier, Pflegeschloss, Germany
Jan 2012 Bridal Pop Up @ Project 51, Dublin, Ireland
  Paper Jewels, Paperhammer Gallery, Seattle, USA
Nov 2011 SIERAAD Art Fair, Amsterdam, Holland
  Irish Craft Portfolio, RHA Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
  RE-CONNECT, Pop-up-shop, RHA, Dublin, Ireland
  21st Century Icons, Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin, Ireland
  Spontaneous Order, Signal Arts Centre, Bray, Ireland
Oct 2011 LOOT 2011- MAD about Jewels, Museum of Art & Design, New York, USA
Sept 2011 Among Giants, AR exhibition, Collins Barracks, Dublin, Ireland
  Faszination Papier, Turn und Taxis Galerie, Michelstadt, Germany
  Swept Away-Kept Together, South Tipperary Arts Center, Clonmel, Ireland
Aug 2011 Seoid 11, Pieces of Eight Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
  Thirty, Flowerfields Arts Centre, Portstewert, Northern Ireland
July 2011 Seoid 11, Studio 20/17, Sydney, Australia 
  WE DESIGN ANYTHING, RHA, Dublin, Ireland
  Faszination Papier, Paper Museum, Duszinki Zdroy, Poland
Jun 2011 21st Century Icons, National Craft Gallery, Kilkenny, Ireland
  Ornament, Rua Red Arts Centre, Dublin, Ireland
  Workhouse Studios, Craft Granary, Cahir, Co. Tipperary, Ireland
May 2011 Faszination Papier, Forum Kunst und Handwerk, Ebrantshausen, Germany
Apr 2011 Faszination Papier, Lieberwein Turm, Burghausen, Germany
Mar 2011 Irish Craft Portfolio 2011, National Craft Gallery, Kilkenny, Ireland
  POSSIBILITIES, Garter Lane Gallery, Waterford, Ireland
Jan 2011 Showcase, RDS, Dublin, Ireland
Dec 2010 Irish Craft Portfolio 2010, Farmleigh Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
  Future Makers Showcase, Hunt Museum, Limerick, Ireland
  Christmas Exhibition, Custom House Studios, Westport, Ireland
Nov 2010 SIERAAD Art Fair, Amsterdam, Holland
  Christmas Exhibition, Victoria Sewart Gallery, Plymouth, UK
  Christmas Exhibition, Galanthus Gallery, Hereford, UK
  A Vision for Our Future, Irish Design Week, City Library, Waterford, Ireland
Oct 2010 Design Nature, International Design Biennale, Liege, Belgium
Aug 2010 Workhouse Studios, Custom House Studios, Westport, Ireland
  RDS National Crafts Competition, Dublin, Ireland
May 2010 Diverse Talents, Courthouse Arts Centre, Tinahealy, Co. Wicklow, Ireland
  From Pulp..., Craft in the Bay, Cardiff, Wales
  Cat and Moon Gallery, Sligo, Ireland
Mar 2010 Irish Craft Portfolio 2010, National Craft Gallery, Kilkenny, Ireland
Nov 2009 Cut & Fold, New Brewery Arts, Gloucestershire, UK
  Workhouse Studios Presents, Tramore, Co. Waterford, Ireland
  Design Week exhibition, City Library, Waterford, Ireland
Oct 2009 Generation, National Craft Gallery, Kilkenny, Ireland
  Origin- The London Craft Fair, London, UK
Aug 2009 Sculpture in Context, Botanical Gardens, Dublin, Ireland
  RDS National Crafts Competition, Dublin, Ireland
  Workhouse Studios@, Red Aesthetic Gallery, Kilkenny, Ireland
July 2009 Summer Collection, SDC Gallery, London, UK
  Future Makers Showcase, National Craft Gallery, Kilkenny, Ireland
  Workhouse Studios Presents, Leitrim Design House, Leitrim, Ireland
June 2009 Paper/Text, Studio20/17, Sydney, Australia
Jan 2009 Designer Crafts09, Mall Galleries, London, UK
  Showcase09, RDS, Dublin, Ireland
Nov 2008 Brooch the Subject, Studio Fusion, London, UK
Oct 2008 Breaking Out, National Craft Gallery, Kilkenny, Ireland
July 2008 New Designers, London, UK
June 2008 NCAD Degree Show, Dublin, Ireland
Aug 2007 RDS National Crafts Competition, Dublin, Ireland
   

Awards

2010 Awarded Future Maker Grant by the Crafts Council of Ireland
2009 Short listed for the Crafts Council of Ireland Practitioner Award
  Awarded Future Maker Grant by the Crafts Council of Ireland
  Awarded a Distinction Licentiateship by the Society of Designer Craftsmen

2008

Winner of the Institute of Designers Ireland Graduate Award for Jewellery Design
  Short listed for the Irish Arts Review and Crafts Council of Ireland Emerging Maker Award