My work is about the flesh and blood of the human form, and the relationships and narratives we manifest. Through oil painting, etching and lithography, I explore the space between the ideals and realities of national identity, with characters from childhood memory colliding with contemporary news to produce a sometimes-comical dissonance. Working from observation drawing, literature and news, I also use colour and pattern and the spectacular textural range of etching to tell incomplete stories about displacement, solastalgia, and the places where we don’t quite belong.
Born in Dublin in 1989 and raised in the UK. I did an MA in Fine Art at Cambridge School of Art from 2021-2023 and was awarded a residency at Cambridge Artworks for my MA degree show. Last year I took up the Expanded Print residency at Graphic Studio Dublin. I have exhibited regularly at Cambridge Contemporary Art, as well as in London. An exhibition of my paintings and prints, “Do you Feel Irish?”, opened at the London Irish Centre in October 2024. Last year I had a 2-person exhibition, “Unexpected Encounters”, with Sarah Strachan at Stapleford Granary Arts Centre. I was recently awarded the 2026 Fen Ditton Contemporary Printmaking prize.
A small selection of my work is below - please see my website, instagram or visit my studio to see more.
