Awards, Competitions, Shows and Exhibitions

Awards and Competitions

 

2014

Centre For Fashion Enterprise Pioneer Program Mentoring Award Recipient

 

Leathersellers’ Exhibition Grant Recipient

 

2013

RDS National Crafts Competition, 1st Prize in the Leatherworking Category - Winner

 

Jerwood Makers Open - Shortlisted

 

Cockpit Arts / Leathersellers’ Award - Finalist

 

2012

RDS National Crafts Competition, Leatherworking Category - Finalist

 

Crafts Council of Ireland Future Makers Awards - Finalist

 

Golden Fleece Award - Finalist

 

2011

Irish Fashion Innovation Awards, Designer of the Year- Winner

 

RDS National Crafts Competition, 1st Prize in the Leatherworking Category - Winner

 

RDS National Crafts Competition, Crafts Council of Ireland Purchase Award - Winner

 

Crafts Council of Ireland International Fair Fund - Winner

 

WGSN Global Fashion Awards, Breakthrough Designer Category - Finalist

 

Ireland’s Most Influential in Fashion Awards, Designer of the Year - Finalist

 

A Shaded View on Fashion Film 4 - Finalist

 

2010

RDS National Crafts Competition, 1st Prize in the Leatherworking Category - Winner

 

RDS National Crafts Competition, National Crafts and Design Fair of Ireland Award - Winner

 

Crafts Council of Ireland Future Makers Awards, Emerging Maker Award - Winner

 

Institute of Designers in Ireland, Fashion Designer of the Year - Winner

 

Golden Fleece Award - Finalist

 

2009

London College of Fashion, Off Catwalk Award for Design - Winner

 

Crafts Council of Ireland Future Makers Awards, Student Award - Winner

 

ITS #8 International Fashion Competition, Accessories Design Category - Finalist

 

176 Zabludowicz Collection Future Map Prize - Finalist

 

Institute of Designers in Ireland, Graduate Designer of the Year - Finalist

 

2003

Eilish Kilgallen Award for most Promising Artist under 25 - Winner

 

Persil Fashion Awards - Finalist

Gallery Exhibitions and Catwalk Shows

 

2015

‘Biennale International Design Saint-Etienne’, Saint Etienne, France

 

2014

‘Weathering’, TENT London, London Design Festival, Truman Brewery, London

 

‘KFW2014’, Kerry Fashion Week Catwalk Show, Hotel Europe & Resort, Killarney, Co Kerry, Ireland

 

‘ARC Fashion Event’, Catwalk Show, Royal Dublin Society, Dublin, Ireland

 

‘Virgin Atlantic 19th International Fashion Lunch 2014’ Catwalk show, Westin Hotel, Dublin, Ireland

 

2013

‘Prosthetics’, SHOWcabinet Exhibition, SHOWstudio Gallery, Knightsbridge, London

 

‘MoBA 13 - Fetishism in Fashion’, International Fashion Festival, Arnhem, The Netherlands

 

‘RIAN’ Contemporary Irish Fashion, Irish Embassy & Canary Wharf, London

 

‘The Hospital Club’, Collaborative Art and Performance Installation, Endell St, London

 

‘Costume: Future Fashion’ Exhibition at ‘Kilkenny Arts Festival’, Kilkenny, Ireland

 

‘Locked In/Locked Out’, New Living Art Exhibition, Irish Museum of Contemporary Art, Dublin, Ireland

 

‘RIAN’, Contemporary Irish Jewellery Exhibition, Barbara Stanley Gallery, London

 

‘Ideate Festival, Living With Design’, National Craft Gallery Exhibition, Kilkenny, Ireland

 

‘The Look of Style Awards 2013‘, Manila, Philippines

 

2012

‘Selling Sex’, Exhibition, SHOWstudio Gallery, Mayfair, London.

 

‘New Fashion Interventions in Material and Technique’, LCF Fashion Space Gallery , Oxford St, London

 

‘Simone Handbag Museum’, Permanent Exhibition, Seoul, South Korea

 

‘L’Oreal Colour Trophy Awards,’ Catwalk Collaboration with Peter Gray & Katie Shillingford, London

 

‘Working.Drawing’ Exhibition, The Dock, Carrick On Shannon, Ireland

 

‘Glamour at the G’, Catwalk Show, Galway, Ireland

 

‘Pompom Parlour’ Exhibition, Stockholm, Sweden

 

2011

‘Common Ground’, Photography Exhibition, Darc Space, Dublin

 

‘RDS National Crafts Competition’, Touring Exhibition throughout Ireland

 

‘Couleur Locale’ International Design Exhibition at ‘Budapest Design Week’, Budapest, Hungary

 

‘Irish Fashion Innovation Awards’ Catwalk Show, Galway, Ireland

 

‘Crafts of Europe’ Exhibition, Frankfurt, Germany

 

‘21 Century Icons’, Touring Exhibition, National Crafts Gallery and throughout Ireland over three years

 

‘The Hospital Club’, Solo Exhibition, Endell St, London

 

‘4 Fashion / Shake’, Fashion Film Festival Screening, Athens, Greece

 

‘Crafts Council of Ireland Future Makers’, Touring Exhibition throughout Ireland

 

2010

'Burlington Arcade’ Installation for Royal Academy Exhibition ‘Aware, Art, Fashion Identity’, London

 

‘Victoria’s Secret’, Catwalk Show, New York

 

‘Sand People’, Exhibition of Film, Fashion and Photography, Vienna, Austria

 

‘L’Oreal Colour Trophy Awards’, Catwalk Show, Dublin

 

RDS National Crafts Competition Touring Exhibition, Ireland

 

2009

‘ITS #8’ Fashion Competition Exhibition, Trieste, Italy

 

‘Lulu Guinness 20TH Anniversary’, Exhibition, Victoria & Albert Museum, LONDON

 

'Generation’, Exhibition, National Crafts Gallery, Kilkenny, Ireland

 

‘MA_STERS’, London College of Fashion Graduate Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London

 

‘LCF at Carnaby’, Exhibition, London

 

‘Future Makers’, Exhibition, National Crafts Gallery, Kilkenny, Ireland

 

‘Cologne Catwalk at Art Fair 21’, Cologne, Germany

 

'Future Map’, Exhibition, Hoxton Square, London