Selected Exhibitions 

2025    ‘Connections’ Travelling Exhibition, Dublin, Athlone, Downpatrick, Ballymena. DoF, OPW

2022    ’The class of ‘76’ Group Show, Lisburn City Library, Lisburn, Ireland

2021    ‘Neither an elegy nor a manifesto’ Portrait of N. Ireland, Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast

2015    ‘Evocation’ Remote Photo Festival, Letterkenny, Ireland

2013    University College Cork, Ireland

2012    Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

2011    Fenderesky Gallery, Belfast, Ireland

2009    Fusions, Collaborative project, Newtownards Arts Centre

2008    ‘Art, Media, Contested Space’, Billboard project, Belfast

2008    Novosibirsk International Festival of Contemporary Photography, Siberia

2006    Fenderesky Gallery, Belfast, Ireland

2006    Grove Gallery, St. Patrick’s Centre, Downpatrick, Ireland

2006    Body of Work, Naughton Gallery, Queen’s University, Belfast

2005    Hype Gallery, Arles, France

2005    Body, Mind, Spirit, Naughton Gallery, Queen’s University, Belfast

2004    Revealing Objects, Naughton Gallery, Queen’s University, Belfast

1998    Christmas Show, Print Room, Photographers’ Gallery, London

1995    Pulp Fact, Photographers’ Gallery, London

1994    Impromptu, Rochester Institute of Technology, New York, U.S.A.

1993    Still Lives, Arts Council of N. Ireland touring exhibition

1992    Through the Lens, Arts Council of N. Ireland touring exhibition

1992    The Big Apple, Apple Mac Photos, Zelda Cheatle Gallery, London

1992    Northern Irish Photography, State University of New York, U.S.A.

1991    Art Photo Art 91, Heidelberg, Germany

1991    The long summer still to come, Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool

1991    Monolith, Roscoff Restaurant, Belfast

1990    Still Life, Photographers’ Gallery, London

1989    Third Eye Centre, Glasgow, Scotland

1987    Magnetic North, Orchard Gallery, Derry (U.K.Touring)

1986    Object As Art, Plymouth Arts Centre, Plymouth, England

1986    International Contemporary Arts Fair, Olympia, London

1986    Leicestershire Annual Arts Exhibition, England

1986    Print Room, Photographers’ Gallery, London

1984    Three Person Show, Fenderesky Art Gallery, Belfast

1984    Views From Ulster, Travelling Group Show

1984    Photographers Against Suffering, Newcastle Upon Tyne

1983    The Alternative Picture Show, Art & Research Exchange, Belfast

1983    Best of Belfast, 10 Ulster Photographers, Octagon Gallery, Belfast

1982    Group Show, Tom Caldwell Gallery, Belfast

1982    Irish Exhibition of Living Art

1982    British Polaroid Open Exhibition, (U.K. Touring)

1982    Claremorris Open Exhibition. Co.Mayo, Ireland. 1982

1980    International Print Biennale, Listowel, Co. Kerry, Ireland

1980    Three Person Show, Orchard Gallery, Derry, Ireland

1978    (since) Royal Ulster Academy, Ulster Museum, Belfast

1977    Prints Old & New, Hillsborough Gallery, Ireland

Publications

‘Photo of the Day’, Don’t take Pictures, magazine, 2020

‘Irish Parables’, Source, 49, Winter 2006

Irish Arts Review, Featured Artist, Winter 2006

‘Available Light’, Television Documentary, UTV/RTE

‘Fotofest’, International Laser Videodisc Library, Houston, Texas, 1990

‘Art, politics and Ireland’, Brian McAvera, Open Air, Dublin

‘Spieltrieb’, Portfolio, Photo Technik International, 5/90

Photofile - work selected for publication as cards

‘Strategies’, Creative Camera, 4/1988

‘Subverting the Surface’, TenEight, No.28

‘The work of Peter Neill’, British Journal of Photography, 19 Nov.1987

‘Views From Ulster’, British Journal of Photography, 6th July, 1984

 

Awards

2019    Gormley Gallery, Landscape Prize, Royal Ulster Academy

2006    Prize winner, ‘Body of Work’ Naughton Gallery, Queen’s University, Belfast

1996    Perpetual Silver Medal, Royal Ulster Academy of Arts

1991    Arts Council of N. Ireland Award - to assist in the purchase of Cibachrome facilities

1980    Biennale Prize, International Print Biennale, Listowel, Ireland

 

Collections

Art Council of Northern Ireland

Royal Group of Hospitals, Belfast

Queen’s University, Belfast

Department of Finance, NICS Art Collection, Northern Ireland

 Private collections in Ireland, U.K., Europe & Japan

Curated Exhibition

For Evermore - Fading Evidence of the Great War

Featuring Photographers: J.S. Cartier (France), Peter Cattrell (Scotland), Chris Harrison (England), David Keith (Ireland).

Exhibited in Gallery of Photography, Dublin and Ulster Museum, Belfast. Publication available from Gallery of Photography, Dublin. 2000

 

Positions held

Academician, Royal Ulster Academy. (Vice President 2018-21) 2014

Lecturer, BA(Hons) Photography, FHEA, University of Ulster, Belfast. 2007 - 2017

Gallery of Photography, Dublin, Board Member, 1999-2004 & 2012- 2016

Photo Works North, Founding Committee Member

Source Magazine, Founding Editorial Team Member/Designer