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