Description
Artist and Printmaker. Studied at the National College of Art and Design, Dublin where she graduated with an honours degree in Fine Art Painting (1983). Awarded a Fulbright scholarship to New York in 1989 to research Irish emigration to America for her exhibition JOURNAL. She has had many solo exhibitions and has shown in selected group exhibitions throughout Ireland and internationally. A former board member and chairperson of Graphic Studio Dublin. In 2004 she was elected to Aosdána for her contribution to the arts in Ireland. Her artwork is held in many public and private collections. She has held a number of important residencies such as Banff Centre for the Creative Arts, Canada, McDowell Colony, New Hampshire, USA, University of
Tasmania, Australia.
