Born Newtownards, Northern Ireland. Previously a member of Cork Artists Collective and Backwater Artists Group Cork before relocating to Belfast and joining Queen Street Studios , in 2003. Has exhibited extensively throughout Ireland and increasingly internationally in China, Berlin, Mexico, Spain and Lithuania, Paris and Berlin. . In 2007, she was selected for the Smithsonian exhibition of new Northern Irish Art (Resolutions) at the Katzen Center for Arts Washington DC.
She participated in the first ever exhibition of artworks by women artists from Northern Ireland at the Guayasmin Gallery, Havana, Cuba 2008. She has received awards from Arts Council Ireland, Arts Council Northern Ireland, Cultural Relations Committee and the British Council.
In August 2009 she exhibited ‘Kreis’, experimental work on the theme of conflict at the Golden Thread Gallery Project Space, Belfast . From September – November 2009, she was Artist in Residence at the Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris and in 2010 at Rooftop Studios , Berlin.
