EMPLOYMENT AND CLIENTS

2019-2023 Self-employed commercial artist whilst studying in University; facilitating art workshops with attendees of all ages and undertaking multiple mural projects a year.

Mural clients include RTE's Late Late Toy Show, Fair City, Irish artist-activist Spicebag, Waterford Cruinniú na nÓg festival, Waterford Hospital, St. Ursula's Primary School, Presentation Secondary School Waterford , TG4.

EDUCATION

2019-2023 Bachelors of Arts (Honours) in Visual Art, South East Technological University, Waterford
Thesis title: 'Exploring the methodology of Post-Internet artists utilising technology to appropriate and archive the social fabric of ‘Poor Image’ digital ephemera.' (1:1)

Thesis Supervisor: Dr Susan Connolly

GROUP EXHIBITIONS AND COLLABORATIONS

2023 BA (Hons) Visual Art Degree Show 2023 exhibition entitled 'My Teeth Hurt, My Hands, Hurt My Feet Hurt', firstly presented in South East Technological University, Waterford
Select pieces later shown in curated showing, Garter Lane Arts Centre, Waterford

2022 A short documentary film Artists in Focus with Waterford Gallery of Art: Una Sealy. Shot by Rhys Wallace and shown in Waterford Gallery of Art,
Sealy was recipient of the phase 2 Office of Public Works Waterford Portrait Commission Award for her artwork featuring myself. The work featured in the annual RHA Summer Exhibition 2022, and is now housed in Waterford’s Municipal Art Collection within Waterford Gallery of Art

2022 An Post release four 'Urban Art' stamps, in which my mural of Jack Charlton (with Niall O'Lochlainn's lettering) was immortalised as an Irish stamp, alongside works by Aches, Joe Caslin and Holly Perreira.

2022 Modern & Contemporary Art – Herman’s Auctioneers, 10 Wicklow Street, Dublin

2014-2022 Waterford Walls Street Art Festival mural artist; creating a mural in the open-air exhibition around Waterford City every year

2020, 2018, 2017 Hit The North Street Art Festival mural artist, painting a mural within Belfast City Centre each year

AWARDS, RESIDENCIES & GRANTS

2023 Longlisted for RDS Visual Arts Award

2023 Waterford Gallery of Art SETU Graduate Awardee
Commissioned painting to be inducted into Waterford's permanent Municipal Collection in September

2023 GOMA SETU Graduate Awardee Residency

2022 Creative Waterford/Creative Ireland awarded grant, funding free mixed-media workshops for teenagers and children in August 2022

REFEREES

Dr. Susan Connolly Ph.D., MA, MFA, BA

Lecturer Fine Art,
School of Humanities,
South East Technological University

Phone: +353 0 0 51 845504 Email: Susan.Connolly@setu.ie