CV

EDUCATION

Master of Fine Art
University of Ulster

BA (Hons) Fine & Applied Art

Certificate/Diploma in Teaching Management of Lifelong Learning
Queen’s University Belfast — Commendation

Level 3 Training for Trainers
Adapt NI

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2026Threads of Time: Industry, Ecology and the River Bann
F.E. McWilliam Gallery, Banbridge

2026Source to Settlement
Enniskillen Castle

2025Confluence
Strule Arts Centre, Omagh

2024Pathways
University of Atypical, DDASF Exhibition

2024Being Blue Being Green
Oriel Gallery, Clotworthy House, Antrim Castle — Shore Collective

2021The Mad Sweeney
An Táin Arts Centre, Dundalk — Shore Collective

2020 — Group Exhibition and Workshop Series, Chronic Pain
University of Atypical

2019 — Christmas Exhibition
Mount Zion — Shore Collective

2018Silence
R-Space, Lisburn — Shore Collective

2018Man Made
Millennium Court Arts Centre, Portadown

2017/18 — First Eco-Conference — Collaborative Installation
Sligo Institute of Technology

2017/18Eco-Sublime, Biennial International Paper and Fibre Art Exhibition — Collaborative Exhibition
NTCRDI, Taiwan

2016Darklands — Selected Film Exhibition
Arts & Disability Forum Gallery, Belfast

2015Waters Edge — NAAC Group Exhibition
Market Place Theatre, Armagh

2014Fabric — Platform Digital Arts Studio Residents Exhibition

2014 — Culture Night — Live Bubble Mural
Market Place Theatre, Armagh

2013Sequence — NAAC Group Exhibition
Flowerfield Arts Centre

2013Journey — NAAC Selected Exhibition
Millennium Court Arts Centre

2012 — NAAC Group Exhibition
Waterfront Gallery

2012Liminal — NAAC Group Exhibition
Millennium Court Arts Centre

2012Intersections
Market Place Theatre, Armagh

2011 — Christmas Selling Exhibition
Arts & Disability Forum Gallery

2011North — NAAC Group Exhibition

2011 — OBG — Invited Four-Person Exhibition

2011 — Culture Night — Live Installation
Millennium Court Arts Centre

2011Piece Works by Stacie Blake
Portlaoise; subsequently exhibited in Japan

2010Armagh O’Clock — Collaborative Sound Installation with composer Robert Jarvis
Market Place Theatre, Armagh

2009 — Group Exhibition
Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast

2009 — Exhibition and Residency
Braid Museum and Arts Centre, Ballymena

2008 — Royal Ulster Academy Annual Exhibition
Titanic Quarter Drawing Rooms — Best Contextual Piece

2007Beyond — Solo Exhibition
Arts & Disability Forum, Royal Avenue, Belfast / Cathedral Quarter Festival

2006 — Group Exhibition
Arts & Disability Forum, Belfast

2003Drawing with Light II — Solo Exhibition
Millennium Court Arts Centre, Portadown

2003 — Slide Show
National Gallery / Goethe-Institut Inter Nationes

2003Drawing with Light — Solo Exhibition
Draíocht Arts Centre, Blanchardstown, Dublin

2000 — EV+A — Selected Exhibition

2000Final
Engine Room Gallery, Belfast

2000 — Solo Exhibition
Air Gallery, Mayfair, London

2000 — PizzaExpress Prospects — International Winner

2000State of the Art Millennium Exhibition
Engine Room Gallery, Belfast

1999Quick Flux
Catalyst Arts, Belfast

AWARDS, FUNDING & RESIDENCIES

2023 — Artist Residency
Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre

2020 — Freelands Foundation Funding

2017 — General Award
Arts Council of Northern Ireland

2017 — Travel Award
Taiwan Collaborative Installation

2015 — General Award
Arts Council of Northern Ireland

2013 — General Award
Arts Council of Northern Ireland

2012 — General Award
Arts Council of Northern Ireland

2010 — General Award
Arts Council of Northern Ireland

2009 — Arts & Disability Forum Award, Northern Ireland

2008 — Best Contextual Piece
Royal Ulster Academy Annual Exhibition

2007 — General Arts Award
Arts Council of Northern Ireland

2006 — Disability Arts Forum Award, Northern Ireland

2003 — General Arts Award
Arts Council of Northern Ireland

2003 — Disability Arts Forum Award, Northern Ireland

2002 — Tyrone Guthrie Bursary

2001 — General Arts Award
Arts Council of Northern Ireland

2001 — Disability Arts Forum Award, Northern Ireland

1998 — Tyrone Guthrie Centre / Craigavon Borough Council Regional Bursary

SELECTED PROJECTS & PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE

2025Nature in Mind — Project Author and Coordinator, Shore Collective
Funded by Armagh City, Banbridge & Craigavon Borough Council in partnership with Action Mental Health. Eight-month programme culminating in two showcases and an exhibition at Market Place Theatre.

2024 — Mentor / Artist Facilitator
Community Arts Partnership — Cement Community Project, Woodgreen Healthcare

2023 — Artist Facilitator
Community Arts Partnership / Education Authority — Ameera Identity Workshops

2021–23 — Project Coordinator, Manager, Lead Artist, Trainer, Researcher and Author
Urban Survival Kits, Erasmus+ transnational learning and exhibition programme — University of Atypical

2003–21 — Board of Directors
Arts & Disability Forum / University of Atypical — roles included Chair, Vice Chair, Secretary and Treasurer

2021 — EU Liaison
University of Atypical

2018 — Weaving Loom Programme and Living Loom
Craigavon Museum Services

2016Mad or Bad
Armagh Museum — full-scale replica environments and sound installation

2016 — Craigavon 50th Anniversary
Exhibition, short film and installation — Craigavon Museum Services

2015/16Around North Armagh Observatory
Three films and associated installation/tour connected to the permanent sound-based work by Robert Jarvis

2015Banbridge Box
Bubble installation, Banbridge Town Hall

2014 — World War One Trench Replica
Craigavon Museum Services

2013 — Filming, Editing and Production Residency
Digital Arts Studio

2012 — Chair and Founder Member
North Armagh Artist Collective (NAAC), later renamed Shore Collective

2009/10 — Lead Artist, Urban Constellation
Brownlow / SELB / Craigavon Borough Council

2006 — Lead Artist, Art in Wetlands
Commissioned by Craigavon Borough Council

2005 — Lead Artist, Art & Travelling Landscape, Phase Two
Sustrans

2003 — Outreach Officer / Arts & Education Officer
Millennium Court Arts Centre, Portadown

2002 — Tutor — Site-Specific Sculpture Trails
Queen’s University Belfast

2002 — Invited Artist
National Sculpture Factory / Horse Head Day Lighting Project, Cork

2001 — Artist Assistant to Louise Walsh
Royal Victoria Hospital Commission