AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES
2004 An Chomhairle Ealaíon Major Bursary
2002 Ballinglen Arts Foundation 2 month Residency.
1998 Artist in Residence HMP Maze Prison facilitated by Prison Arts Foundation
1998 Artist in Residence Mayo County Council
1997 IMMA Artists Work Programme
1996 IONTAS 96 Painting Prize
1996 Arts Council Artist in Residence Award.
1994 Northern Ireland Film Council Award.
1994 Artist in the Community Award.
1994 Artist i n Residence Model Arts Centre.Sligo.
1993 Arts Council Materials Grant.
1984 Deutscher Akadamischer Austauschdienst post graduate award (DAAD) Germany.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2006 Penumbra New Paintings The Dock Carrick-on-Shannon
2003 Solo exhibition Fenderesky Gallery Belfast
2002 New Work Model::Niland Sligo
1999 Light Sleep of Space Sligo Art Gallery
1997 Giotto’s Blue Jo Rain Gallery Dublin
199 The Broken Jug The Arts Council Dublin
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2005 Boyle Arts Festival Invited Artist.
2004 “Iontas AwardWinners “ Sligo Art Gallery, Hunt Museum Limerick & Millennium Court Arts Centre Portadown N.I
2004 Colour & Touch NUI Galway joint exhibition with Cian Donnelly
2004 “Out of Context “Contemporary Irish Painting.
2004 Archeus Fine Art London May
2004 Cavanacor Gallery Donegal March 04’
2002 RHA Annual (invited Artist)
2001 Mc Sweeney & Friends Boyle Arts Festival
1999 The Irish Exhibition Galleri Weinberger Copenhagen Denmark.
-2001 Elemental Passions Touring Ireland & UK
1998 Boyle Arts Festival
1997 Cavehill Art Gallery Belfast.
1997 Map German and Irish artists. BBK Gallerie Karlsruhe Germany.
1996 Skerries Arts Festival Co Dublin Selected by Michael Cullen.
1995 Îontas 96 touring RHA Dublin,LImerick City Gallery, Arts Centre Derry & Sligo Art Gallery
1995 North West 95 Selected by BArrie Cooke, Brenda Mc Farland(IMMA) & Jamshid MirFendereskey.
1995 Monaghan Open ‘95.
1994 Claremorris Open
1994 SEVEN Installation & Painting Model Arts Centre Sligo.
1993 Interiors Craft Council Ireland Dublin.
1993 Fenderesky Gallery at Queens.1992
1992 Model Arts Centre
1992 Claremorris Open 92
1991 Western Artists Kiltartan House Galway
1991 Rubicon Gallery Dublin
SET DESIGN AND VISUAL DIRECTION IN THEATRE
2000 Jocasta Set Design, Dha Ean theatre CompanyHawkswell Theatre Sligo & National tour of Ireland.
1995 Orestian Trilogy , Praxis Theatre Laboratory , TheFactory Sligo
1994 Antigone, Praxis Theatre Laboratory ,Hawkswell Theatre Sligo.
INSTALLATIONS
1995 Chorus
1995 Tide Sligo Arts Festival.
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2006 Slavka Sverakvo “Penumbra" Online review Circa May
2004 Aidan Dunne , “Painting in Ireland Now”, Circa Art Magazine No. 109 p32 .
2004 Adian Dunne “The Wurm that turns heads” Irish Times 16 July 04’
2003 Dennis Farrell Circa Art magazine no. 103 p 87
2002 Irish Arts Review p33 Winter edition.
2002 Adian Dunne Irish Times RHA Annual 23/5/02
2000 Irish Arts Review Summer Edition.
1999 Irish Times review Adian Dunne 28/4/99
1999 Cian Donnelly“The Language of thought” interview by Arts West
1999 Cian Donnelly Arts West review by May 99’.
1998 Adian Dunne ‘ On the Boyle” Irish Times review August 98’.
1998 Artist’s Work Programme 95-97 Catalogue I.M.M.A.
1997 Catherine Marshall ‘Painting is A Singular Act’ Text by Sept 98’
1996 Andrea Schlieker.Íontas 96 Catalogue . Foreword
1996 Brian Fallon Íontas at the RHA Irish TImes August 96’
1996 Circa Feburary 96’
1995 NorthWest 95 Catalogue.
1995 Cyphers ‘Three Head Studies’ Literary Arts Journal
1994 Fragments of a Body review by Stephen Butler.
1992 Claremorris Open Catalogue.
1992 COE Irish Times review by Brian Fallon
1992 LInen Hall Arts Exhibition Irish Times review by
1991 L”Etudiant Journal ‘Des Artistes Se Mettent Au Vert’ text & photographs by Luc Brunet
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
N.U.I. Galway
Mayo County Council.
Boyle Civic Art Collection.
St Louise’s College, Belfast.
Ballinglen Arts Foundation
PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
Various in:
Denmark, Germany, England and Ireland
SUMMARY OF EDUCATION:
BA Hons 2:1 Fine Art Painting, Camberwell Art School, London
SUMMARY OF OTHER WORK EXPERIENCE:
2002 - present Teaching Fine Art to BA level at the Instiitue of Technology Sligo
2006 In Conversation with Sinéad Aldridge Patti Smith Exhibition 200 6
2005 Where I'm @ hosted by Sligo Education Centre sponsored by An Chomairle Ealaíon 2005
2005 The Drawing Experience 2005 at Model & Niland Galleries
1988 – 1990 Tutor in Fine Art – HM Prison Brixton
1997 – 1999 3rd Age Rural Arts Development Project
1998 Artist in Residence HMP Maze Northern Ireland
1988 Installation and technical support – Contemporary Arts Society, Anthony Dofay Gallery, Nigel Greenwood Gallery, London
1990 Set design Artist Terry Murphy Ltd., London
PUBLIC LECTURES
Model::Niland Sligo
I.M.M.A Dublin
Dun Loughaire Art College
GMIT Galway
NUI Galway