

Biography
Born in Dublin, Ireland, 1950 | |
1964-69 | St Columba’s College, Dublin, Ireland |
1969-70 | Foundation Course, Bath Academy of Art, England |
1970-71 | Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland |
1971-75 | Accademia di Belle Arti di Milano, Italy |
Lives and works near Gorey, County Wexford, Ireland |
Distinctions
2012 | Awarded Honorary Membership of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland |
2008 | Elected to membership of the Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Ireland |
2001 | Tulach a’ tSolais is nominated for the Mies van der Rohe, Barcelona Architecture Award, Spain |
1998 | Presented with the Decoration of Cultural Merit, from the Ecuadorian Government |
1993 | Image of Un Lloc Pagà featured on a postage stamp issued by the Principality of Andorra |
1991 | Presented with the Medalla al Mérito Artistico by the Mayor of Madrid, Spain |
1989 | Receives the Utsukushi-ga-hara Open-Air Museum Award, Japan |
1984 | Nominated for the Wolf Foundation Prize in Arts (Sculpture) 1984/85, Israel |
1983 | Receives the 1983 Mont Kavanagh Award for Environmental Art, Dublin, Ireland |
1981 | Elected to membership of Aosdána, Dublin, Ireland |
1980 | Receives the 1980 Mont Kavanagh Award for Environmental Art, Dublin, Ireland |
1979 | Awarded the Macauly Fellowship for Sculpture, Dublin, Ireland |
1978 | Awarded the Scott Tallon Walker Architects Prize, Dublin, Ireland |
Awarded the Alice Berger Hammerschlag Scholarship, Belfast, Northern Ireland | |
1975 | Diploma con lodi (Scultura), Accademia di Belle Arti di Milano, Italy |
1974 | Receives an Italian State Scholarship |