Art Awards/Commissions

  • May 2018: ESB Moran Award for Outstanding Sculpture.
  • April 2018: Awarded Hollywoodrath Sculpture Commission.
  • October 2016: “Blastoid” commissioned by the Irish Geoscience Network.
  • May 2016: Lilly Pod” commissioned by Dame Philippa Bayliss
  • June 2016: “Ogham teaching Stone” commissioned by Blackstairs Ecotrails .
  • June 2010: Completed “Cherryorchard phase II, Enniscorthy” Per cent for Art commission
  • March 2009: Shortlisted for Shamrock Plaza public art commission competition.
  • 2008, 2016 & 2017 Carlow Arts Act Grant

Art Education & Practice:

  • 2021: Stone letter carving Mentoring by Aileen Ann Brannigan
  • 2017: Mentoring with Elis Lavelle – Concepts and project development for commissions
  • 2016: Welding workshop – Leitrim Sculpture Centre
  • 2016: “Demonstrations in stone carving with Michelle Byrne and Martin Lyttle” for Visual Centre for Contemporary Art
  • Assistant to Eileen MacDonagh for her major exhibition “Lithosphere” at Visual Centre for Contemporary Art, Carlow, Ireland (February 2012)
  • Stone Sculpture Symposium, Salzburg Summer Academy of Fine Art, tutored by Eileen MacDonagh and Suzanne Tunn (12th July – 23rd August)
  • September 2007: Portland Sculpture and Quarry Trust – 3-week Sculpture course

Exhibitions:

  • June 2022: Modern Irish Sculpture Exhibition – Butter Market, Kenmare. 
  • 2022: Royal Hibernian Academy (RHA) Annual Exhibitions: 2009, 2011, 2012, 2017, 2018 2020, 2021 & 2022
  • November 2021/22: National Design & Craft Gallery & Farmleigh, Phoenix Park – “Made in Ireland”
  • October 2021: FORM Collaboration Project – “Tension”
  • May 2021: National Design & Craft Gallery – “Curious Treasures 2”
  • 2016 & 2022: Selected for Sculpture in Context, Botanic Gardens
  • Exhibited with Form Designmade in Carlow on Annual basis during Kilkenny Arts Festival but also Wexford Opera Festival (2018, 2019) and Carlow Arts Festival (2016, 2017) and National Ploughing Championships (2019) 
  •  2018 & 2019, Vue at the RHA: Richard Scott Sculpture
  • 2014, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 & 2022: Summer Sculpture Exhibition, June – September: Richard Scott Sculpture (RSS) at Ballymaloe, Shanagary, Co. Cork.
  • 2nd July  – 16th October 2016: Possibilities of Place,  The Nine Stone Artists: Visual Centre of Contemporary Arts, Carlow.
  • May 2015: The AIB Eigse Open Submission 2015, Carlow Arts Festival, Visual, Carlow
  • May 2015: The Nine Stone Artists, Eigse Carlow Arts Festival, The Gate Lodge, St Patricks College, Carlow
  • 09 May – 30 June 2015: OAK 2015 at Killenure Castle, Dundrum, Co. Tipperary
  • 13 -22 June 2014: Dublin Biennial, CHQ Building, IFSC, Docklands, Dublin 1
  • 13 -15 June 2014: The Nine Stone Artists (Borris House Writer Festival), Main Street, Borris, Co. Carlow
  • 17 July – 1 September 2013: Form at Mount Juliet, Co. Kilkenny
  • June – September 2012: Uddenskulptur, Sweden
  • June 2012: The Nine Stone Artists, Eigse Exhibition, Deighton Hall, Carlow
  • October 2011, “A Showcase of Art by Old Columbans”, St Columba’s College, Rathfarnham, Dublin.
  • June 2011: The Nine Stone Artists, Eigse Fringe Exhibition, Borris House
  • October 2009: Sliabh Gearr Sculptures (Granite Symposium) Exhibition, The Norman Gallery
  • June 2009: The Nine Stones Artists, The Norman Gallery
  • June 2009: Carlow Eigse Open Exhibition
  • May 2009: Royal Hibernian Academy (RHA) Annual Exhibition 2009
  • May 2009: Sculpture at the Hallward
  • June 2008:  Carlow Eigse Open Exhibition
  • August 25 – September 11, 2005: 9 Stone Artists – group exhibition, Norman Gallery, Rathnure, Co. Wexford. Photographs Exhibited.
  • December 2004: 9 Stone Artists – group exhibition, Carlow. Geology Photographs Exhibited

Symposia:

  • September 2009: Sliabh Gearr Granite Symposium, Killann, Enniscorthy, Co. Wexford.
  • 2019/2021: The Drummin Bog Project – Creative Ireland Arts Project
  • 2021: The 9 Stones Artists – Raku project 
  • 2019-2021: “Tension” Form Designmade in Carlow – Collaboration Project 
  • 2018: The 9 Stones Artists – Woodcut print project

Other

Education:

  • 1990 BEng (Honours) in Engineering Geology and Geotechnics, Portsmouth Polytech, England.
  • 1987 National Diploma in Mineral Engineering, Athlone Regional Technical College, Ireland.

Geology/Engineer Work:

  • 2016 – Present : Independent Geotechnical Engineer/Engineering Geologist Consultant
  • 1999 – 2015. Geotechnical Engineer/Engineering Geologist in Ireland
  • 1990 – 99 : Geotechnical Engineer/Engineering Geologist in South Wales
  • 1987 – 88 : Mineral Exploration in Ireland. Geophysics and stream sediment sampling (Gold panning)