Gallery representation: Claremorris Gallery, Co. Mayo
email; info@claremorrisgallery.com
email; info@claremorrisgallery.com
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Education:
BA Art & Design Fine Art, Centre for the Creative Arts and Media, Galway 2015
FETAC Level 5 Certificate in Art, Ennistymon Community College, Co. Clare 2008
Solo Exhibitions:
2019 - Grünewald, Claremorris Gallery, Mayo.
2018 - Water and Ground, McKenna Gallery, Omagh, Co. Tyrone
2017 - Here, There and Somewhere in Between: Land, Sea and Bog, Claremorris Gallery, Mayo.
2017 - Uncode all Landscapes, The Red Couch Space, The Courthouse Gallery Ennistymon, Co. Clare
2016 - Of Land & Sea, Solo Exhibition, Ledge Gallery, Cliffs of Moher Visitor Centre, Co. Clare
Awards/Residencies/Other
2020 Recipient of Clare Artists' Mentoring Scheme Glor, Supported by Creative Ireland & The Arts Council
2020 RHA Really Helping Artists' Micro Grant
2019 The Cill Rialaig Project Residency (2020) Ballinskelligs, Co. Kerry
2019 The Thomas Dammann Junior Memorial Trust Award
Shortlisted for 251st RA Summer Exhibition 2019, London
Curators Choice March 2019, Hunt Museum, Limerick
Invited Artist by the Royal Hibernian Academy, 189th Annual Exhibition 2018, Dublin
Upcoming Residency, Heinrich Böll Cottage Achill Island, Co. Mayo in 2019
2017 Tyrone Guthrie Artist Bursary Award, Clare County Council, Clare County of Culture
2016 3rd Prize, 1 FT SQ, The Higher Bridge Gallery, Enniskillen, Co. Fermanagh
2016 The Cill Rialaig Project Residency, Ballinskelligs, Co. Kerry
Group Exhibitions:
2020
Winter Opening 20, The Courthouse Gallery & Studios, Ennistymon, Co. Clare
RHA 190th Annual Exhibition, Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, Ely Place, Dublin 2
Trasna IX, The Courthouse Gallery & Studios, Ennistymon, Co. Clare
Falling in Love with Nature, Online Group Exhibition, I Am of Ireland, Waterford
2019
'Geopark Captured on Canvas Exhibition' with Burren & Cliffs of Moher UNESCO Global Geopark, Foust Gallery, Co. Clare
Kerry Visual Artists Showcase 2019, Department of Culture, Heritage & the Gaeltacht, Killarney, Co. Kerry
Cairde Visual 2019, The Model, Sligo
RHA 189th Annual Exhibition, Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, Ely Place, Dublin 2
ENSEMBLE Group Exhibition, Hambly and Hambly, Dunbar House, Enniskillen, Co. Fermanagh
1 FT SQ Expo, Hambly & Hambly Galley, Dunbar House, Enniskillen, Co. Fermanagh
Trasna 8 Exhibition, Courthouse Gallery & Studio’s, Ennistymon, Co. Clare
2018
Eclectic Christmas Exhibition, Hambly & Hambly Galley, Dunbar House, Enniskillen, Co. Fermanagh
Rún, The Hyde Bridge Gallery, Yeats Memorial Building, Sligo (Invited Artist)
Trasna 8 Exhibition, Courthouse Gallery & Studio’s, Ennistymon, Co. Clare
1 FT SQ Exhibition, Shrule Art Centre, Townhall Square, Omagh
Canvas to Canvass, Women of the West Exhibition, Galway’s Great Read, Ballinasloe Library.
September Group Show, Claremorris Gallery, Co. Mayo
Cairde Visual 2018, The Model, Sligo
Gathering, 29th Boyle Arts Festival, Kings House, Boyle, Co. Roscommon (Invited Artist)
Landmarks, (Two Person Show) Cultúrlann Sweeney Kilkee & Clare Arts Office, Kilkee, Clare
RHA 188th Annual Exhibition, Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, Ely Place, Dublin 2. (Invited Artist)
Hermione 2018, Alexandra College, Miltown, Dublin 6. (Curated by Aisling Prior)
Daughter of the Dagda (International Women’s Day) NUIG, Galway
1 Ft Square Exhibition, Shrule Art Centre, Townhall Square, Omagh
2017
Aontacht, The Courthouse Gallery & Studio's, Ennistymon, Co. Clare
Trasna VII, The Courthouse Gallery & Studio's, Ennistymon, Co. Clare
Celebrating Traditions Exhibition, The Hunt Museum, Limerick
9 Walls Group Exhibition, The Hyde Bridge Gallery, Yeats Memorial Building, Sligo
Kerry Visual Artists Showcase 2017, Department of Culture, Heritage & the Gaeltacht, Killarney, Co. Kerry
Claremorris Open Exhibition 2017, Claremorris, Co. Mayo
Cairde Visual 2017 Open Submission Exhibition, The Model, Sligo
Facing West, Boyle Arts Festival, Kings House, Boyle
Reset the Compass, Hamby & Hamby, At Dunbar House, Enniskillen, Co. Fermanagh
Daughter of the Dagda, Group Exhibition, KAVA Courthouse, Kinvara, Co. Galway
Postcards to Alaska: Artists on Climate Change, International Gallery of Contemporary Art, 427 D Street, Anchorage, Alaska
1 FT SQ Exhibition, Strule Arts Centre, Townhall Square, Omagh
2016
1 FT SQ Exhibition, The Higher Bridge Gallery, Enniskillen, Co. Fermanagh
Trasna VI Open Submission, The Courthouse Gallery & Studio's, Ennistymon, Co. Clare
Art at' The House Restaurant Christmas Exhibition, Howth, Co. Dublin
Affordable Art Fair, 126 Gallery, Hidden Valley, Galway.
Cairde Visual 2016, The Hyde Bridge Gallery, Yeats's Memorial Building, Sligo.
186th Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, Ely Place, Dublin.
2015
Affordable Art Exhibition, Gallery Revival, Moneygall, Co. Offaly.
Clare Notebooks 2015, Courthouse Gallery, Ennistymon, Co. Clare.
Trasna V, Courthouse Gallery, Ennistymon, Co. Clare.
Art is a Wound Turned into Light Exhibition, Please Talk NUIG, Áras na Mac Léinn, NUI Galway
Still Life & Nude Exhibition, Gallery Revival, Moneygall, Co. Offaly
Galway 20/20 Gallery (July Exhibition), Galway City Centre, Galway.
Graduate Degree Show, GMIT's Centre for the Creative Arts &Media, Galway.
2014
Seven by Five, Exhibition, Belltable, Limerick
Clare Notebooks 2014 - "A Summer to Remember", Courthouse Gallery, Ennistymon, Co. Clare
Visual Artists for Gaza at 126 © Kerry Guinan, Galway
Galway Fringe Festival, BAAD Artists Group, Galway
Proximity G.M.I.T Galway Campus
2013
Proximity G.M.I.T. Galway Campus
Glorious Freaks Exhibition, Quad Art Gallery, NUI Galway
2012
Trasna III, Courthouse Gallery, Ennistymon, Co. Clare
Outdoor Exhibition, Ennis Street Festival, Ennis, Co. Clare
2010
Art & Photography Exhibition, Corofin Traditional Music Festival, Co. Clare
2009
Ausgewählte Arbeiten Exhibition, Café Aroma, Ennis, Co. Clare
2008
FETAC Student Exhibition, Courthouse Gallery, Ennistymon, Co. Clare
Art Fair Representation
VUE Artfair 2017, RHA Dublin, represented by Claremorris Gallery, Mayo.
Media and Publications
https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/art-and-design/visual-art/five-art-shows-to-see-this-week-1.3959147
http://www.mayonews.ie/living/going-out/34012-claremorris-gallery-to-host-exhibition-and-artist-talk
http://www.mayonews.ie/living/32771-landscape-reclaimed
https://www.advertiser.ie/galway/article/103354/reimagining-pdraic-conaires-most-famous-tale
Claremorris Gallery VUE Art-fair Catalogue 2017
Kerry Visual Artist Showcase Catalogue 2017
Claremorris Open Exhibition COE'17: Celebrating 40 Years Catalogue 2017
https://curatoronabike.wordpress.com/2017/09/25/claremorris-open-exhibition-2017/
http://www.pressreader.com/ireland/the-kerryman-north-kerry/20170913/283454961535267
https://www.killarneytoday.com/killarney-line-art-attack/
http://visualartists.ie/listings/exhib-connaught/here-there-and-somewhere-in-between-land-sea-and-bog-kaye-maahs-at-claremorris-gallery/
https://www.clarecoco.ie/recreation-culture/news/bursaries-for-two-clare-artists.html
North Clare Local, North Clare Arts News, February 2017
Clare People, Regional, Burren/Ennistymon, January 20, 2017
http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/art-and-design/visual-art/visual-art-the-rha-s-phoenix-like-rise-from-the-ashes-1.2585942
186th Exhibition Catalogue, RHA, Dublin
http://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/health-family/galway-artists-launch-new-exhibition-for-mental-health-week-1.2371251
http://www.artsandhealth.ie/2015/10/02/art-is-a-wound-turned-into-light-at-nui-galway/
http://www.irishartsreview.com/new-generation-artist-work/kaye-maahs/
http://www.gmit.ie/sites/default/files/public/creative-arts-and-media/docs/gmit-ccam-newsletter-march2014.pdf
Other activities
Facilitator - Offsketch Galway#2 - https://www.facebook.com/offsketchgalway - 2016.
Invigilator - ‘30 Years, Artists, Places’ Exhibition, Glor, Ennis, County Clare - 2015.
Facilitator - Offsketch Galway - https://www.facebook.com/offsketchgalway - 2015.
Volunteer - (Admin) Galway Design Week - 2015.
