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​I come from a family of artists and makers, 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 and studied photography at Griffith College Dublin with the intention of finding work as a travel/documentary photographer. 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 artwork spans several disciplines from sculpture to photography and printmaking. I have exhibited in solo and group shows nationally and internationally and won several visual arts awards - the Thomas Dammann Jr Award 2018 and the Golden Fleece Award in 2011. 
​   My first book The Waters and the Wild, documenting a journey in a self-built canoe along Ireland's inland waterways, was published by Merrion Press in 2023.  I'm currently working on a collection of essays about the sea - Saltwater Songlines.
    Cultural histories and the natural world fuel my creative urges.
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