Mary is a visual artist and art educator from Galway, living in Clare. She is the recipient of the Arts Council Agility Award 2024 for her Brigid’s Well series of paintings which will culminate in a solo show in Portumna Castle OPW gallery in July 2025. She was awarded a number of arts grants and bursaries from Clare Arts Office and Kildare Arts Office. She was 2nd Prize winner in the Hunt Museum Studio Awards 2024 and was shortlisted for the 2025 Sir William Orpen Self Portrait Prize
2025 ‘Bloodroot’ Pulchri Studio, The Hague and Hamilton Gallery, Sligo
2024 ‘Beep Painting Biennial’ Longlist; ‘Ireland in the Heart of Europe’ Europa Gallery, Dublin and Hamilton Gallery, Sligo; Dunamaise Open selected by Vera Klute RHA; ‘Dust to Dust’, 126Gallery Galway; Cliften Arts Festival; Ennistymon Courthouse Gallery Open Exhibition; Signal Arts Centre Open Exhibition; Boyle Arts Festival; Beyond Brushstrokes – Burren College of Art and Ennistymon Courthouse Gallery; 126 Gallery Members Show; SULT Artist Collective Open Submission;
2023 Dunamaise Open, selected by Blaise Smith RHA; ‘Climate and Health’, Royal College of Physicians of Ireland, selected by James Hanley, RHA; ‘Retrospect: Decommissioned Works’ online exhibition by lodgergallery.com; Neart – the Art of Motherhood, Scariff; Boyle Arts Festival; Invited artist for Bullaí (Bouys) Inis Oirr – on theme of water safety; TWENTY ONE, Mermaid Arts Centre; Forhalla, Linenhall Arts Centre; Preselected RHA 2023; RUA Red Spring Open.
