Born
1976, Dublin, Ireland
Education
2005 MA sculpture, Royal College of Art, London
2001 BA (Hons) Fine art, National College of Art and Design, Dublin
Selected Exhibitions
2010
The Visitor, solo show, Riverbank Art Centre, Co.Kildare, Ireland
Material Worlds-Contemporary sculpture from Ireland and the UK, F.E. McWilliam Gallery, Northern Ireland
Clear Skies Above, SIM House, Reykjavík
re:public, Temple Bar Gallery & Studios, Dublin
2009
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, West Germany, Berlin
Nothing Matters When Your Dancing, Lowenpalais, Stiftung Starke, Berlin
Futures 09, Royal Hiberniam Accademy, Dublin
Big Pink, Solo Show, Goethe Instuite, Merrion Sq. Dublin
EXCEPT, a project by Limen Arte Contemporanea, Bologna, Italy
2008
Winter Salon, Temple Bar Gallery & Studios, Dublin
Clairemorris Open, Claire Morris, Co. Mayo
Interference, The Red Stables, Dublin
2007
The Garden Project, Solo show, County Hall, Wicklow - percent for art Commission
Timelines, Mermaid arts center, Bray
The garden of eden has vanished they say, Ballyjamesduff Museum, Ireland
Lighthouse, Brick Lane, London
More Heat than Light, The Basement Gallery, Dundalk, Ireland
Pleasures & Days, The Lab, Foley St, Dublin
2006
Samhlaiocht, Kerry Film Festival, Tralee, Ireland
Turning Left, Solo Show, Charterhouse, Godalming, England
Magazine, Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop, Edinburgh
Darklight Film Festival, Irish Film Instuite, Dublin
Archetype, Transition gallery, London
2005
Periperal Visions, Cork Film Centre, Cork, Ireland
Kansk, Kansk video festival, Russia
Brazil, Watermill centre, New York
Video London, Espai Ubu, Barcelona
MA degree show, Royal College of Art, London
Awards / Residencies
2010
SIM Residency, Reykjavík, Iceland
2009
Stiftung Starke Residency, Berlin
Irish Arts Council – Travel and mobility award
Artist Bursary Award - Kildare County Council, Ireland
2008
Project Studio Award – Temple Bar Gallery & Studios
Tyrone Gutherie Centre, - Co. Monaghan
2007
Irish Arts Council - New Work Award
Chill Rialig Project –Ballinskelligs, Co. Kerry, Ireland
2006
Roundstone Residency –Connemara, Ireland
2005
Henry Moore Foundation – Student Bursary Award
Irish Arts Council – Professional development award
FURTHER – 3 month Film residency at nowhere Lab, London
Watermill – 2 month residency with theatre director Robert Wilson, NewYork
Art School - 3 week Residency, B loomberg space , Finsbury square, London
Reviews
Irish Times 16/9/09 Aidan Dunne, ‘Making it back to the futures’
Irish Times 18/7/09 Mary Hannigan
Irish Times 2/5/07 Aidan Dunne, ‘Devilish discord’
Wicklow People, 6/4/07