Curriculum Vitae
Student ;New York Academy of Fine Art/ The graduate School of Figurative Art

Scholarships:
2000-1 NYAA: Full fees Fellowship.

1998 Sleningford Estate, Yorkshire, England. Artist in Residence.

1997-98 Leith School of Art: Full fees Scholarship

1996-7 University of Edinburgh: Full fees Scholarship

1994 University of Galway: Irish Language Scholarship

"I am interested in the human condition. My previous studies in sociology
have fed this interest.

Much of my work is firmly concerned with solid
objects/masses in space. I am interested in how objects/beings unfold
themselves in space, manifest themselves, realise themselves as objects and
beings, spatially and mentally. In short, how objects and beings emanate as
physical and mental energy.

In my work I want to describe their presence as
individuals or events, and presence in relation to (or in juxtaposition
with) other events or environments. The synthesis of individual
consciousness with its surroundings and the interaction of different
consciousnesses interest me from a phenomelogical and existential viewpoint.

Recently my work investigated depersonalised intelligences - how individuals
found others unfathomable in the Wittgensteinian sense of the individuals
never truly knowing the mind of another, thus being forced into speculation.
Most recently, however, the philosophical questions that my work grappled
with has been tempered by my desire to represent the beauty and mystery of
creation."