Associazione Idea Vita

Nato 1'8 gennaio 1962

Studi

1966-77

Patrician Brothers, Mallow, Co. Cork.

1982-84

B.A. English and Philosophy, University College Dublin.

1983

Lavora e studia part-time, Berlin, Frei Universitat and Hochschule der Kunst.

Lavoro

1986-90

Insegnante Malahide Community School Co. Dublin.

1990-98

Libero artista

1998

Direttore di Clò Ceardlann na gCnoc, Donegal.

Mostre personali

1988

Waterworks, O'Flynn's, Bank Place, Mallow, Co. Cork.

1992

Drypoints and Etchings,Armagh College of Further Education.

1993

The Paper Island, at Red on Green Gallery, and the Templebar Gallery, Dublin.

1994

The Birth of Seosamh Finnl, performance installation, Old Museum Arts Centre.

1996

The Birth of Seosamh Finnl, and collaboration with Cathal O'Searcaigh.

Mappa Mundi, solo exhibition of work, Orchard Gallery Derry.

Principali mostre collettive

1991

New Artist Exhibition, The Fenderesky Gallery at Queen's, Belfast.

1992

Shifting Ground, Orpheus Gallery and Kerlin Gallery, Belfast.

1993

EV+A 1992, selected by Gloria Moure, Limerick City Gallery. Russian Diary, Print installation, Fenderesky Gallery at Queen's, Belfast.

1994

Determined Material Foundations, Fenderesky Gallery at Queen's, Belfast.

1995

12 Northern Irish Artists, Itami City Museum, Japan. We are Here Now, City Gallery, Kobe, Japan.

1997

Gallery by Night International, Studio Gallery, Budapest, Hungary.

The Beautiful Junk Shop - Paintings on Household Objects, Fenderesky Gallery, Belfast.

1998

Transgression, Visual art and Poetry, Fenderesky Gallery, Belfast.

New Graphic Works, Fenderesky Gallery, Belfast.

Seven Cities, Touring International Print Show, Templebar Gallery, Dublin, Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast.

Graffinova 98, Vassa, Finland, Biennale, invited artist.

Mod Exhibition in An Tuireann, North Uist, Scotland.

1999

Iconografie dell'evanescenze Morbiducci Gallery, Rome.

Dàimh/Affinity, Arainn Chaluim Chille, Isle of Skye, Scotland.

Screen, film projections, Forest of Dean, Bristol.

2001

"Herzblut-Scriftbild", ACCGalerie, Weimar, Germany.

Collaborazioni con Oona Hyland.

1992

No Access, a derelict room in the Crescent Arts Centre.

1993

The Suspended Press, Gallery spaces, Crescent Arts Centre.

1994

The Art of Navigation I, Arts Council Gallery, Dublin Road Belfast.

1995

Elements/ Elementos, Centro Cultural Galileo, Madrid.

1997

TheArt of Navigation II, Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, Dublin.

Borse di studio

1994

British Council, transport and travel awards, Belfast / London / Madrid.

DHL artlift award.

Grant, Cultural Relations Committee, Irish Department of Foreign Affairs.

1995

Fundacion Valparaiso, Mojacar,Almeria, residency.

Fundacion Olivar de Castillejo, Madrid, residency.

La Rectoria, Centre d'Art Contemporani, Barcelona, residency.

1996

Scholarship, Goethe, Institute Weimar.

Residency at Atelier Pontoise and Cite des Artes, Paris.

1997

George Campbell Memorial Trust award, Arts Council Northern Ireland.

O'Malley,Art award, Irish American Cultural Institute.

Commissioned for the LetterkennyTheatre Project (I year contract).

1998

British Council travel grant, International workshop Mirzaani, Georgia.

2000

Artist in residence,ACC Galerie,Weimar, Germany.

Bibliografia, selezione

1994

The Art of Navigation, Ian HiII, The Irish Times, exhibition review.

The Birth of Seosamh Finn, Gavin Weston, review, Sunday Times.

The Birth of Seosamh Finn, report, Irish News.

1995

Elementos/Elements, exhibition catalogue, Madrid.

1996

Imaginaire Irlandais, exhibition and residencies catalogue, France.

1997

The Art of Navigation, catalogue, published by the Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery.

The Art of Navigation, Printmaking Today, Volume 6, Number 4, Winter 1997.

1998

The Music of Chance, Circa Art magazine, Katalin Timar, Spring Edition.

TheArt of Navigation, Grafiknytt, Vera Ohlsson,Swedish Graphic Periodical.

1999

Via dalle Immagini, Edited by Salvatore Puglia, Edizioni Menabo.

2001

"Installing a Mountain", artist's book for Donegal County Council.