1968 Born Wallsend, North Tyneside
1987-90 Magdalen College, Oxford University
1997-99 Wimbledon School of Art
1999-2000 Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology
Lives and works in Dublin
Awards
2012 Golden Fleece Award
2011 Arts Council Bursary (an Chomhairle Ealaíon)
2010 Culture Ireland/Cultúr Éireann
2009 Thomas Dammann Jr Memorial Trust Award
2007 Culture Ireland/Cultúr Éireann
2002 Fergus O’Ryan Memorial Award
Selected public collections
Dept of Education, Ireland
ESB Ireland
OPW Ireland
Selected publications
Dictionary of Living Irish Artists, December 2010 The Plinian Sponge, Maybe? Royal Hibernian Academy
exhibition catalogue, February 2008 Claire Kerr, exhibition catalogue, Purdy Hicks Gallery, November
2007 Buyers’ Guide to Irish Art, November 2005
Jerwood Drawing Prize exhibition catalogue, September 2005
Ashford Gallery Emerging Artists’ exhibition catalogue, September 2005
Selected recent media
'Arena', RTE Radio 1, 6 March 2012
'Angels of Perversity', Irish Times, 19 June 2009
'Visual Art to Illuminate and Intrigue', Irish Times, 17 July 2008