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