Studied at the National College of Art and Design. He currently lectures in Sound Art in the School Of Music and Drama ,UCC as well as visiting lecturer and workshop facilitator in various institutions He has pioneered both performance art and sound art in Ireland and he continues to be a leading exponent exhibiting and performing both in Ireland and abroad including SPAN2 in London and at "Hearing Place" in Melbourne, Australia. His work is in the collections of the Arts Council Of Ireland, Crawford Municipal Gallery and Limerick City Gallery and numerous other public and private collections in Ireland and abroad. In November 2007 he presented his sound and visual installation '(Re)sounding Memories /Watering The Plants' in Le Lieu Centre dArte Actualle Quebec,Canada where he also presented a live sound performance. In 2004 exhibited/performed in the prestigious TRACE Gallery Cardiff with a new work 'Wild Oats & Cornerstones'.
His work has appeared on numerous C.D.s and has been broadcast widely on both radio and T.V.. He is a founding director of Triskel Arts Centre and of the National Sculpture Factory and is a director of Art Trail and the Sirius Arts Centre Cobh . He is the recipient of numerous awards and bursaries from both the Irish Arts Council and Dept of Foreign Affairs,Culture Ireland and has represented Ireland abroad at various exhibitions. He is a First Prize winner in EV+A (selector Pierre Restany).
More recent exhibitions include 'Sounding The Town' (installation) and 'Wa(l)king The Dream' (live sound performance with Viv Corringham) in the Sirius Arts Centre Cobh Ireland. . He has exhibited as part of the 'Trace Retrospective 2000-05' in Franklin Furnace, New York. He is co editor (with Julie Forrester) of the book 'For Those Who Have Ears' and as part of Cork 2005 European Capital Of Culture he co curated (with David Toop) 'Sound Out' a major international exhibition of sound art, he also edited the exhibition catalogue and CD . In 2006 he curated a CD entitled 'Bend It Like Beckett' for Sound Works/Art Trail Festival to commemorate the Beckett Centenary.
In early 2006 he founded The Quiet Club (with Mick O Shea) a floating membership sound (art and electronics) performance group and have presented works all over Ireland and also Europe, China, Japan and Canada. He recently presented his installation 'Another Gong For Mr. Beckett' at the Factory Gallery Berlin and exhibited in 'Found Sound' in the Takt Gallery Berlin. His video 'Keepers Of The Light' was part of the international video art exhibition 'Who Are Your Friends' in the Soap Gallery Japan (www.g-soap.jp) In July2007 he completed a tour to Japan where he presented a sound and visual installation '(Re)sounding Memories/Cleaning The House' in CAP House, Kobe Japan plus other live sound performances including the prestigious Hyogo Perfectual Museum of Art (www.artm.pref.hyogo.jp) .Other recent shows include 'Then The SilenceIncreased' (UK) and 'Art Is Not Mute' (Sweden/Hungary) He exhibited from his series 'The Rematerialization Of Sound As An Art Object' in the Black Mariah Gallery Cork as part of Art Trail 2007.He also performed withThe Quiet Club as part of Art Trail 2007and at DEAF (Dublin Electronic Arts Festival) and at the I & Efestival. In May 2008 they performed at the STATIC Gallery Liverpool as part of its European Capital Of Culture celebrations they also featured solo and with guests as part of The Quiet Music Festival.
TAPEHEAD
This work comes from the series 'The Rematerialization Of Sound As An Art Object' the title of which comes from Lucy Lippard s book of a similar name. It consist of a series of drawings made using the material for storing sound e.g. cassette tape, vinyl records and the silver foil off CDs. It is an ongoing series which also incorporates performance and installations including 'Sound Man W/Talking' in the Crawford Gallery Cork and 'Tape Head (Erase)' Studio Soto Boston.
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