BIO

I was awarded a City of Dublin Corporation Scholarship at 11 years of age.
Having joined The Workers Party at the formation stage in 1969, I became a member of the Gardiner Row cumann withTony Gregory, TD for Dublin North Inner City, and Thomas McGiolla, former President of the Workers Party, and former Lord Mayor of Dublin. I left because it wasn’t a democratic party.

Copenhagen became my home in 1973, where I met genuine people from all over the world, and lived on an old abandoned ship, the St. Lawrence.

At the age of thirty three, the visual arts made an appearance in my life, and I began studying advanced life drawing with Joanna Robertson in NCAD, and graduated from TCD in History of European Painting.

While living in Skerries I joined The Skerries Art Workshop. I also sang in an A Capella group and we sang in local venues. It gave me a more varied interest in music.

Shortly afterwards I became Resident Artist of Ardgillan Castle. (REM have played there) My studio was in the Tower. The opportunity presented itself to have some one man shows of my paintings in the Castle, and I also gave drawing classes. I was invited to have some exhibitions there and I exhibited in the Emer Mullins’ gallery and the Daffodil Gallery.

I took up photography as a practice after moving house in 2007 and began experimenting with photomontage and editing. The Gallery of Photography Ireland have exhibited some of my videos and photographs online.

Having emigrated to the Valencian region of Spain in 2017 due to the housing crisis in Ireland, I made my home there for five years, all the while using Social Media to keep in touch with home, and attempting to make a contribution to cultura and things of the moment.

I’m still a bit of a revolutionary at heart, sometimes it seems to me that things aren’t just somehow. I’m still working as an independent activist.