I come from a family of artists and crafts people, my grandfather was a wood and stone carver and my father works in wood. Having spent six years working on ocean racing yachts I returned to Ireland in 2000 and studied photography at Griffith College Dublin with the intention of finding work as a travel/documentary photographer. However, the creative aspects of the medium captivated me and I went on to explore historic photographic equipment and processes - wet plate collodion, cyanotypes and cameraless image making. In 2013 I completed a Masters degree in Fine Art at NCAD. ​My work spans several disciplines from sculpture to photography and printmaking. I have exhibited in solo and group shows nationally and internationally and have won several visual arts awards including: the Thomas Dammann Jr Award 2018, the Golden Fleece Award in 2011, and the Artlinks Award in 2009. Recently I qualified as an Ecological Consultant. The knowledge acquired from this training will inform future projects. My first book The Waters and the Wild, documenting my journey in a self-built canoe along Ireland's inland waterways, is published by Merrion Press.
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