EDUCATION

2025 - 2027 MFA Crafts Textile Art, HDK Valand, Gothenburg, Sweden

2023 The Drawing Development Year, Postgraduate programme, The Royal Drawing School, London

2020 - 2021 Postgraduate Certificate in Creative and Cultural Entrepreneurship ,Trinity College Dublin, Dublin 2

2013 - 2016 BA Honours Degree in Textile Art and Artefact Design, The National College of Art and Design, Dublin 8

AWARDS

2024 The Arts Council of Ireland Agility Award

2024 The Royal Hibernian Academy Access Award

2020 The Royal Hibernian Academy - Really Helping Artists Micro Grant

2019 South Dublin County Council Young Artist Development Award

Solo Exhibitions

2018 Rubescent Mirage, The Fumbally Exchange, Dublin

2018 Ruth Cassidy at The Bernard Shaw, Dublin

2016 Flora&me, The Copper House Gallery, Dublin


Group Exhibitions

2025 The Art Riddler Exhibition, Charlemont Street Square, Dublin

2025 Hermione Annual Exhibition, Alexandra College, Dublin

2024 Dunamaise Arts Centre Winter Open Exhibition, Dunamaise, Portlaoise

2024 The Art Riddler Exhibition, Charlemont Street Square, Dublin

2024 Hermione Annual Exhibition, Alexandra College, Dublin

2024 Drawing Beyond, Breakers Gallery, RDS Notting Dale Campus, North Kensington, London

2023 Samhain, The Copper House Gallery, Dublin

2023 Deorad 23, Hermans Auctioneers, Studio 10, Dublin

2023 Summer of Love, The Courthouse Gallery, Ennistymon, Clare

2022 Halftone Print Fair, The Library Project, Temple Bar, Dublin

2022 Still in motion, Unit 44, Stoneybatter, Dublin

2020 Creatives Against Covid 19, The Guinness Storehouse, Dublin

2019 Body + Colour, FRAME, Dublin

2019 D’ART - The Cultural Equinox, The Dart, Dublin

2016 Emerging Artists Exhibition, St Patrick’s Hospital, Dublin

2016 NCAD Degree Exhibition, NCAD, Dublin

2016 Now and Then Fashion Show, The Chocolate Factory, Dublin

2015 Perceptions, The Mart, Dublin

2015 Construct, Elbana House, Dublin


Lectures

2019 - 2025 Lecturer in Textile Art and Artefact, The Department of Applied Materials, The National College of Art and Design

Press

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Studio Portraits by Niamh Barry