Artist Statement
I choose materials that best communicate a concept or experience that is personal to me. When working in clay, I use hand building as well as wheel throwing techniques when constructing my pieces. I might choose the seductive plasticity of porcelain with its vitreous translucency or the earthy grounded weight of groged stoneware. The materials take form in a visual language in my sculptures and installations where I delve into themes of displacement, resilience, and the intricate equilibrium of the natural world, its beauty, vulnerability and its interconnectivity.
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MA Art Education, Boston University Boston, Ma
Post Graduate Studies, University of Massachusetts, Ceramics Dartmouth Ma
BA Limerick College of Art and Design – Ceramics. Limerick, Ireland
Exhibitions
‘24 Outdoor Sculptural Invitational (upcoming April)
The Cape Cod Museum of Art (CCMoA) and the New England Sculptors Association (NESA)
‘24 Earthworks: Tradition, Influence, Innovation (upcoming May)
The Umbrella Art Center, Lincoln Ma
‘24 15th Flying House Annual Out Sculpture (upcoming Sept.)
Pingree Sculpture Park, Hamilton Ma
‘23 Craft a Force in Contemporary Art
Site:Brooklyn Gallery, New York
‘23 CONTINUUM: Cape Ann Sculpture Today
Installation: Group exhibition
Gloucester Ma USA
‘23 Clay Works 2023 at the Printworks,
Group exhibition
Dublin Castle, Ireland
'23 Anna Maria College Sculpture Exhibtion
Installation: Group exhibition
Worcester Ma USA
'23 Art In The Park, 10th exhibtion, Worcester
Installation: Group exhibition
Worcester Ma USA
'23 Cogswell Art Center, Haverhill Ma USA
Site Specific Outdoor Installation: Funded by MCC
Disperse: Site specific Ceramic Installation
'23 Cape Cod Museum of Art, Brewster, Ma
Tandem: Group exhibition
'23 Cultural Center of Cape Cod, Yarmoth, Ma
Kenetic: Group exhibition
’22 Montserrat College of Art Gallery, Salem Ma
Inspired Views: Group Invitational
’21’22 Cogswell Art Center, Haverhill Ma
Site Specific Outdoor Installation: Funded by MCC
’21 State of Clay, Lexington Ma
11th Biennial Exhibition,
What Remains: Ceramic Sculpture
’20 Switchboard Gallery, Haverhill Ma
What Remains: Solo exhibition
‘20 & ‘19 Small Works Exhibition
‘20 Essex Art Center, Beland Art Gallery, Lawrence Ma
Begin: An Art Installation referencing displacement.
’20 Maudsley Sculpture Park, Newbury Ma
Ceramic Installation
’20 Firehouse Center for the Arts, Newburyport, MA
Endure: Group Invitational exhibition
’19 Maudsley Sculpture Park, Newbury Ma
Endure: Ceramic Installation
’18 Montserrat College of Art Gallery, Salem Ma
Inspired Views: Group Invitational
’15 Boston University Dorsoduro Venice Italy
Graduate Exhibition
’03 Galley Dean Crowe, Athlone Ireland
Transitions: Art in Residence
’02 Harvard Art Center, Harvard Square, Cambridge, Ma
’99 Attleboro Museum. Attleboro Ma
Invitational Group Exhibition
’98 Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton MA.
Transition: Art Installation
’96 Boston College, Boston MA
Celtic Journey: Sculpture
’94 Fuller Craft Museum, Brockton MA.
Group Invitational Exhibition: Ceramic Sculpture
’94 South Shore Art Center, Cohasset Ma
Juried Group Exhibition
’89 Limerick College of Art and Design, Limerick Ireland
Student Graduating Exhibition
Awards/ Grants
Professional member of The New England Sculptors Association
2022 Massachusetts Cultural Council granted for Disperse site specific installation
2021 Massachusetts Cultural Council granted for Begin Again exhibition
2020 Massachusetts Cultural Council granted for What Remains exhibition
2004 Irish Arts Council, Artist Residency in the Community
1995’ Irish Arts Council, Artist Residency in the Community
1994 Massachusetts Cultural Council granted for Transitions exhibition