Biography
1953 Born in Manchester
1982 MA Fine Art, Goldsmiths College, University of London
1985 Artist in Residence, National Gallery, London
2000 Artist in Residence, St. John’s College, Oxford
2005 Honorary Doctorate, National University of Ireland
2006 Art Commissioning Panel, Imperial War Museum, London
Lives and works in London and Ireland

Exhibitions
2007 Touched by your Presence, Dear – Recent Acquisitions, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
2007 Last Poems, Galerie Michael Janssen, Berlin (solo)
2006 Souvenir of St Valery, Purdy Hicks Gallery, London (solo)
2006 The Deep, Galway Arts Festival, The Fairgreen Gallery, Galway (solo)
2006 City and Áras Éanna Arts Centre, Inis Oírr, Ireland (solo)
2006 Drawing Inspiration, Abbot Hall Art Gallery, Kendal
2006 siar 50, (50 years of Irish Art from the collections of the Contemporary Irish Art Society), Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
2005 Bodies of Water, Victoria Art Gallery, Bath; Southampton City Art Gallery
2005 Gardens of Earthly Delight, Chester Beatty Library, Dublin
2005 Parable of the Prodigal Son, Fenton Gallery, Cork, Ireland (solo)
2005 Venice Project: The Drunkenness of Noah, Purdy Hicks Gallery, London (solo)
2004 Fiume, Purdy Hicks Gallery, London (solo)
2004 Crucifixions, Butler Gallery, Kilkenny, Ireland, off site project at Duiske Abbey Graiguenamanagh (solo)
2004 Views from an Island, Irish Contemporary Art from the collection of the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Millennium Museum, Beijing; Shanghai Art Museum, Shanghai
2003 - 2004 Painting Caserta Red, Imperial War Museum, London; Imperial War Museum North, Manchester (solo)
2003 Richer Dust, Gas Hall Gallery, Birmingham (solo)
2003 Postcard from Milan and Other Prints, Purdy Hicks Gallery, London (solo)
2003 Contemporary Prints, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
2002 - 2003 Drawing Parallels, Waterhall Gallery of Modern Art, Birmingham
2002 - 2003 The Journey, Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester
2002 Ten Years: Painting, Memory and the Human Form. Model Arts and Niland Gallery, Sligo (solo)
2002 Course of the Diver, Galerie Karl Pfefferle, Munich; Purdy Hicks Gallery, London (solo)
2001 Naming the Fields, Rubicon Gallery, Dublin (solo)
2000 Geschichte und Erinnerung in der Kunst der Gegenwart (History and Memory in Contemporary Art). Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt a. M.
2000 Five Centuries of Genius, European Master Printmaking, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide
2000 The Times of Our Lives: Endings, Whitworth Art Gallery
2000 An Artist’s Century: Master Works and Self Portraits of 20th Century Irish Artists, rha Gallagher Gallery, Dublin
1999 Graphic! British Prints Now, Yale Center for British Art, New Haven
1999 Episodes from the Passion, RHA Gallagher Gallery, Dublin (solo)
1999 Niobe’s Children, Galerie Karl Pfefferle, Munich (solo)
1998 - 1999 Corp, Paintings and Drawings of the Human Body 1984-1998, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; Whitworth Art Gallery, University of Manchester (solo)
1997 Via Crucis, Haus der Kunst, Munich (solo)
1987 Carini Gallery, Firenze (solo)