Biography
Born in Tralee County Kerry, Ireland
EDUCATION
2012 MFA Painting Slade School of Fine Art London
1990 Dip Fine Art GMIT Galway
EMPLOYMENT
Group Tutor, Drawing & Visual Inquiry, Galway Technical Institute
Extra-mural evening life-drawing course tutor for staff, National University Ireland Galway
Board of Directors Artspace Studios
EXHIBITIONS
2017 Can We Draw You Out! – Open Conversation on Drawing, New Ross Library, New Ross, Wexford commissioned by Wexford Arts Officer Liz Burns and curated by Mary Ruth Walsh
2016 Open Studio: A Conversation on Drawing, RHA Gallery, Dublin, curated by Mary Ruth Walsh
2016 DATA: Artspace Gallery, Addeley Park, Galway
2014 Claremorris Open Exhibition, curated by Michelle Cotton
2014 RESTLESS, 7th Annual 126 Members Show, Galway as part of Galway International Arts Festival, curated by Paul McAree
2014 Sabhail Sinn/Bright Anxiety, An Gailearai, Gaoth Dobhair, Donegal, curated by Nuala Ni Fhlathuin
2013 Claremorris Open Exhibition, selected by Andrew Wilson
2013 Resonance Dockshed, Galway, curated by Dr. Aine Phillips
2013 I am shapeful and gracely, a creature of the air I’d say, New work by Robin Jones, 126 Artist-run Gallery the accompanying text for this exhibition – Drawing off the reserve, written by John Mulloy, lecturer in Art History, Critical Theory, Rural Arts and Arts-based Community Development at GMIT reproduced here with thanks. More images here
2013 Curator: Taking Note or The Curious Eye at NUI Galway Gallery
2013 126 Members Show, 126 Artist-run Gallery, selected by Katherine Waugh, Galway
2013 Temporary Works, Muscailt, NUI Ireland, Galway
2012 Shortlisted for the Jerwood Drawing Prize 2012, at Jerwood Space London, Jerwood Gallery Hastings and MAC Birmingham.
2012 MFA Degree Show Slade School of Fine Art, London
2011 Interim Show, Slade School of Fine Art, London
2010 Galerie Faouëdic, L’Orient, France
2010 B/W Flower Painting Charing Cross Hospital, London
2009 Samhlaiocht, Tralee
2009 New Acquisitions, National University Ireland, Galway
2009 6th Annual Member’s Show, 126 Artist-run Gallery, Galway and Catalyst Arts, Belfast
2007 Iontas, Sligo, (and as Evan Hunter) curated by Michael Dempsey
2006 Tulca Season of Visual Art, Galway
2006 Chimera, Galway Arts Festival
2005 Iontas, Sligo
2005 Beckett at St Nicholas, St Nicholas Cathedral Galway
2005 Small Works, Galway Arts Centre
2004 Siamsa Tire, Tralee
2004 Eigse, Carlow
2004 Scoip, Tralee
2003 6X6 For Ireland, Irish Contemporary Art, Hanzhou and Shanghai China
2001 Iontas, Sligo
2000 Scoip, Tralee
1999, 1998 Claremorris Open Exhibition
1997 BP National Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery, London and Ulster Museum Belfast
1995 EV+A, Limerick City Gallery of Art, curated by Maria de Coral
2010 Arts Council of Ireland Travel and Training Award