Assitant Lecturer, MTU Crawford College of Art & Design.
PhD Canditate, National College of Art & Design, Dublin. (2021-2027)
Oh, the Thinks You Can Think, LHQ Gallery, Cork. IE. (2025)
Tyrone Guthrie Residency Award, Cork County Council. IE. (2025)
Allow to Fall Low, Allow to Fallow, PhDExhibition, Luan Gallery, Athlone, IE. (2026)
Tyrone Guthrie Residency Award, Cork County Council. IE. (2025)
Allow to Fall Low, Allow to Fallow, PhDExhibition, Luan Gallery, Athlone, IE. (2026)
The Cabin Residency, Road Books, Inniscarra, Cork. IE.(2026)
Studio Artist, National Sculpture Factory. IE (2026)
Studio Artist, National Sculpture Factory. IE (2026)
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
2023: A Demarcation of Time, Ashford Gallery, RHA, IE. Curated by Sarah McAuliffe.
2022: A Temporary Iteration, SIRIUS Arts Centre, Cork, IE.
2020: Overburden, Triskel Arts Centre, Cork City, IE.
2018: The Dirt That Measures All Our Time, Mermaid Arts Centre, Wicklow, IE.
2018: The Great Heap, Luan Gallery, Westmeath, IE.
2017: The Great Heap, Leitrim Sculpture Centre, IE.
2016: Dust Breeding, GOMA, Gallery of Modern Art, Waterford, IE.
2014: Unusable Monuments, Cork Printmakers, Cork. IE.
2014: Missing Something Which No Longer Exists, 126, Galway, IE.
2013: There are Thousands of Taps Dripping, Ratamo Gallery, Jyväskylä, Finland. FI.
AWARDS:
2025: Arts Council of Ireland, Project Award (Strand 2: Production)
2024: Arts Council of Ireland, Agility Award.
2024: Artist In Residence, The Model Sligo. IE.
2023: Westmeath Artist Support Award, Westmeath Arts Council.
2023: Arts Council of Ireland, Agility Award.
2023: Artist Placement, KinSHIP, Tramore Valley Park. IE.
2021: PhD Scholarship, National College of Art & Design, Dublin, IE.
2021: Arts Council of Ireland, Project Award.
2020: Arts Council of Ireland, Individual Artist Bursary.
2020: Arts Council of Ireland, Covid-Response Award.
2019: Cork County Arts Council, Creative Artist Bursary.
2017: Cork City Arts Council, Individual Artist Bursary. (2015/14)
2016: Culture Ireland Award, Supporting International Projects in Finland & China (2011).
2015: Purchase Prize, Impressions Biennial, Selected by David Ferry.
2014: Arts Council of Ireland, Arts Council of Ireland, Individual Artist Bursary.
2013: Arts Council of Ireland, Travel and Training Award. (2011)
2011: Cork City Twinning Grant, The Don Gallery, Shanghai, CN.
AWARDED RESIDENCIES:
2024: Artist in Residence, The Model Niland,
2023: Artist Placement, KinSHIP, Tramore Valley Park. Curated by Lennon/Taylor. IE.
2019: The Cabin Residency, Cork County Arts Council Award, Road Books,Cork. IE.
2017: Leitrim Sculpture Centre, Solo Exhibition and Residency Award. IE.
2016: Awarded Residency, EIARA, The Burren College of Art. IE.
2013: European Pépinières pour Jeunes Artistes, MAP, 6 Month Residency Award. FI.
2012: Ruth Katzman Scholarship Residency Award, The Art Students League of NY. US
2012: Arts Council of Wales, Awarded Teaching Residency, Swansea Print Workshop. UK.
2011: Artist in Residence Award, Jyväskylä Centre for Printmaking, Finland. FI.
2010: Artist in Residence Award, Ateliers BaZtille, Zoetermeer, The Netherlands. NL.
PRESENTATIONS/ LECTURES:
2024: Radical Humanities Conference, University College Cork. IE.
2024: Radical Entanglement & Environmental Residues in Visual Art Practice. NCAD IE
2021: A Passive House; Open conversation with Ali O’Shea. Rebel Reads, Cork. IE.
2021: The Human Animal, Video Podcast with Carol Anne Connolly & Sarah Kelleher.
2020: a field of multiple destructions, Artist Lecture Series, National Sculpture Factory, IE.
2019: Peatlands in the Imagination; A Revolution in How We Live, U.C.C. Cork. IE.
2019: Printmaking in the Contemporary Landscape, The National Gallery of Ireland. IE.
2019: Fallow Land; The Importance of Being Still, St. Luke’s Crypt, TACTIC Gallery, Cork, IE.
2018: How Did I Get Here? Studio 12 Launch, Backwater, Cork, IE.
2016: Artists Speak, VAI Get Together, IMMA, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, IE.
2016: Walking as Research, Visiting Lecturer, The Burren College of Art, NUIG, Co. Clare, IE.
2016: Expanded Printmaking, Visiting Lecturer, Art Academy of Riga, Latvia. LV.
2014: Professional Development, Lecture, Crawford College of Art, Cork, IE.
2013: There are Thousands of Taps Dripping, Ratamo Galleria, Jyväskylä, Finland. FI.
2013: Expanded Practice in Contemporary Printmaking, Spike Island (Print), Bristol, UK.
2011: This constant movement of Bricks, Galleria Harmonia, Jyväskylä, Finland. FI.
SELECTED JOINT EXHIBITIONS:
2021: Below, & Time Between, Studio 12, Backwater, IE. With Carol Anne Connolly
2020: Visions of an Unsettled Earth, Sirius Arts Centre, IE. With Debbie Godesell & Sarah O’Flaterty
2014: On the Edge of a Blue Sky, The Courthouse Gallery. IE. With Lorraine Walsh
2011: Conversations amongst Endpoints, The Don Gallery, Shanghai, CH.
With Edel O’Reilly & Amanda Rice
2009: The Kitchen Table. Art Trail: Rediscovering Locality, IE. With Amanda Rice
2007: Reykjavik Winter Lights Festival, SÍM Seljavegur, Reykjavík, IS. With Sigbjørn Bratlie
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2024: At First/ I was Land, Curated by Niamh Brown, Studio 12, Backwater, Cork. IE.
2024: Let the Mirror Express the Room, Curated by Benjamin Stafford, Luan Gallery, IE
2024: Fictions: The makings of other worlds, Dublin Art Book Fair, Temple Bar Gallery, IE
2024: Radical Archaeologies: Unearthing landscape. GLUCKSMAN, Cork. IE
2024: Ar Seiz Avel, Parlement de Bretagne, Rennes, FR
2023: Sa Lár, Luan Gallery, Athlone, IE. Curated by Emer McGarry
2023: Groundwork, GLUCKSMAN, Cork. IE.
2023: URBAN/FIELD, Cork printmakers, IE two Person show with Ciara Rodgers
2023: Tentacular Thinking, James Barry Exhibition Centre, MTU, IE. Curated by Lennon/Taylor
2023: Associative Relations, Studio 12, Cork, IE. Curated by Pádráig Spillane.
2023: Visions of an Unsettled Earth, The Hunt Museum, Limerick. IE.
2023: Hand of Man, Backwater Artist Group, Cork. IE. Curated by Stella Kramer.
2023: RADHARC: Perspectives in Print, Crawford Art Gallery, Cork, IE.
2024: Let the Mirror Express the Room, Curated by Benjamin Stafford, Luan Gallery, IE
2024: Fictions: The makings of other worlds, Dublin Art Book Fair, Temple Bar Gallery, IE
2024: Radical Archaeologies: Unearthing landscape. GLUCKSMAN, Cork. IE
2024: Ar Seiz Avel, Parlement de Bretagne, Rennes, FR
2023: Sa Lár, Luan Gallery, Athlone, IE. Curated by Emer McGarry
2023: Groundwork, GLUCKSMAN, Cork. IE.
2023: URBAN/FIELD, Cork printmakers, IE two Person show with Ciara Rodgers
2023: Tentacular Thinking, James Barry Exhibition Centre, MTU, IE. Curated by Lennon/Taylor
2023: Associative Relations, Studio 12, Cork, IE. Curated by Pádráig Spillane.
2023: Visions of an Unsettled Earth, The Hunt Museum, Limerick. IE.
2023: Hand of Man, Backwater Artist Group, Cork. IE. Curated by Stella Kramer.
2023: RADHARC: Perspectives in Print, Crawford Art Gallery, Cork, IE.
2022: Graphica Creativa Triennale, Jyväskylä Art Museum. Curated by Teija Lammi. FI.
2022: The point of truth, beauty and knowledge, Künstlerhaus Dortmund, Germany. GR.
2022: The Space We Occupy, IAC, NYC & Solas Nua, Washingon DC. Curated by Miranda Driscoll. US.
2022: Ulysses; Centenary. Graphic Studio Dublin. Curated by Anne Hodge. IE.
2021: Rembrandt in Print, Print Studio, Crawford Art Gallery. Cork, IE.
2021: In-Florescence, Nano Nagle Gallery, Cork, IE.
2021: New Threads. Crawford Art Gallery Acquisitions. Curated By Michael Waldron.IE.
2021: New Perspectives. Acquisitions 2011–2020, National Gallery of Ireland.
Curated by Sean Rainbird. IE.
2020: Land of Some Other Order, Lavit Gallery, Cork, Curated by Paul McAree. IE.
2020: Mouth of a Shark, Edinburgh Printmakers Gallery, Scotland. UK.
2020: Stories from Lismore and beyond, Lismore Castle Arts, Curated by Paul McAree. IE.
2020: New Impressions, Draíocht Arts Centre, Dublin, Curated by Sharon Murphy. IE
2019: Field Study, The Auxiliary, Middlesbrough, UK.
2019: The New State, Graphic Studio Gallery, Dublin, IE.
2019: The Land is Still Being Formed, Sternview Gallery, Cork. IE.
2019: See You Tomorrow, Sirius Arts Centre, Cobh. IE.
2019: Northern Beaches Book Awards, The Manly Art Gallery and Museum, Australia. AU.
2019: Fremantle Arts Centre Print Awards, Fremantle, Western Australia. AU.
2019: VUE; Ireland’s National Contemporary Art Fair, RHA, Dublin, IE.
2018: Double Take, Glucksman Gallery, Cork. IE.
2018: Sustainable Futures, Sirius Arts Centre, Cobh, IE.
2018: Ungrounded, Studio 12, Cork, IE.
2018: Stampa Ora, Cork Printmakers & Italian Association of Contemporary Engravers
Fondazione Villa Benzi Zecchini, Treviso, IT. Universita degli Studi di Sassari, Sardinia. IT.
Crawford Art Gallery, Cork, & Garter Lane Arts Centre, Waterford, IE.
2017: Locales, Doswell Gallery, Rosscarbery, IE.
2017: The Dispersed Gallery, Offsite Locations, in Association with the MIMA. UK.
2017: Geological Cake, BCA Gallery &126 Gallery, IE.
2017: NEU NOW Festival 2016, Online Festival, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. NL.
2016: I Went to the Woods, the artist as wanderer, GLUCKSMAN Gallery, IE.
2016: YOU MAKE MINE, I MAKE YOURS, Ratamo Galleria, Jyväskylä, Finland. FI.
2015: What Happens When Nothing Else Does, MA:AP, Crawford College of Art. IE.
2015: Statements, SNAP3, International Printmaking Symposium, Germany. GR.
2015: Silver, West Cork Arts Centre, Skibbereen, Co. Cork. IE.
2015: TWEETBOX, Printmaking in the Post-Print Age, Impact 9, Hangzhou, China. CH.
2014: HEXAGON, Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray, Co. Wicklow. IE.
2014: Cachet de la Poste Faisant Foi, Villa Mallet-Stevens, Paris, FR.
2014: Little Kingdoms, Catalyst Arts Gallery, Belfast. NI.
2013: POST-IT, Boarders and Crossings, IMPACT8, Dundee, Scotland. UK.
2013: The Mythical and Mundane, Siamse Tire, Kerry. IE.
2013: Drawn to Print, Spike Island, Bristol, U.K.
2012: Impressions, Galway Arts Centre. IE. Selected by Norman Ackroyd.
2012: Big Visual Dynamite, TACTIC, Cork Culture Night, IE.
2012: Hack the City; Artvertiser Project, Science Gallery, Dublin, IE.
2011: Have you seen a Monkey? Fact and Fiction in an Irish Landscape, Banagher, IE.
2011 Wat Blijft komt Nooit Terug, Ateliers BaZtille, Zoetermeer, The Netherlands. NL.
2011: Impressions, Galway Arts Centre, Galway, IE.
2011: Road Roller Project, Cork Printmakers in association with ArtTrail, Cork, Ireland.
2011: Cork Contemporary Projects, Engage Arts Festival, Bandon, Cork, Ireland.
2008: Impressions, Galway Arts Centre, Galway , IE.
2008: Tales from the Black Lodge, Altered Esthetics, Minneapolis, US.
2008: Fledglings, The Lavit Gallery, Cork , IE.
2007: Auf getz; Belmont Mill, Offaly, IE.
2007: Fear Not, Iontas, Sligo Art Gallery, Sligo, IE.
2007: Holga, Monster Truck Gallery, Francis St., Dublin, IE.
2006: Death Swap; Cannonball press, AD HOC Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, US.
SELECTED WRITINGS/ REVIEWS:
2024: Williams, Dawn, At Fairst I Was Land, Essay.
2023: Campbell, Susan, A Demarcation of Time, VAN.
2022: Kelleher, Sarah, A temporary Iteration, Paper Visual Art, Journal Vol 14.
2022: O’Shea, Ali, Encountering Slowscapes; Published Printed Object.
2021: Long, Sarah, Interview, The Paper. 2022: O’Shea, Ali, Encountering Slowscapes; Published Printed Object.
2020: Kelleher, Sarah, Overburden, The Sunday Times Review.
2020: Amado, Miguel, Overburden, Essay.
2019: Long, Sarah, VAN, See You Tomorrow, VAN Critique, Summer Issue.
2019: O’ Donnell, Annie, Corridor8. Field Study Review, The Auxiliary.
2019: Hodge, Anne, Making Their Mark, Catalogue text, National Gallery of Ireland.2018: Clarke, Chris, Work at Rest, Essay.
2018: Clancy, Luke, Art Review, Sustainable Futures, April 018 Issue.
2018: Wilkinson, Judith, Frieze, I Am Now a Saint’: Brian O’Doherty Turns 90,Review.
2018: North, Kirstie, VAN, Sustainable Futures, Spring 2018 Issue.
2018: Chenu, Rachel, PausArt, Feature.
2018: Kelleher, Sarah, Visions of Half-Light, Catalogue text.
2018: North, Kirstie, Natural Histories, Catalogue text.
2016: Jewesbury, Daniel , 126 Quarterly, Visual Art Publication.
2015: O’ Donnell, Niamh, Dwyer, Emma; VAN, Solidarity and Connectivity, Spring Issue.
2014: Singh, Abhilasha, Watchlist Artist, ArtSlant Worldwide.
ACADEMIC POSITIONS:
2020: Assistant Lecturer, Crawford College of Art & Design (MTU) IE.
2016: Visiting Lecturer, The Burren College of Art, NUIG, Co. Clare, IE.
Visiting Lecturer & Workshop Instructor in Print, Art Academy of Riga, Latvia. LV.
2014: Visiting Lecturer in Professional Development, Crawford College of Art, Cork, IE.
Visiting Lecturer in Relief Printmaking, Crawford College of Art, Cork, IE.
2012: Master class Instructor in Relief Printmaking & Drawing, SPW, Wales. UK.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
2020: Gallery Technician, GLUCKSMAN Gallery, U.C.C. (2019,2018)
2019: Fine Print Editioning, in Etching, Photopolymer, & Relief. (2018)
Freelance Gallery Technician, Exhibition Installation Work in Various Venues.
2016: Project Member, Flags for the Townlands, Cork City Public Art by Tom Doig.
2014: Project Member, Singers Corner, Cork City Arts Public Art Project by Johnny Bugler.
2009-12:Cork Contemporary Projects Artist Led Initiative.
EDUCATION:
2019: Furniture Making & Design, 1:1, QQIL5, CSN, Cork.
2015: MA in Art & Process, 1:1, Crawford College of Art, Cork.
2008: B.A (Honours) in Fine Art, Printmaking, 2:1, Crawford College of Art, Cork.