Artist Background
Colin was born in Dublin in 1973 and graduated in Fine Art with first class honours from the College of Marketing and Design before completing post-graduate studies. He is a most successful printmaker, winner of the Michael Byrne Print Award in 1998 and the Tony O’Malley Travel Award in 2000. Colin’s excellent etchings have been shown in exhibitions in Dublin and Cork; group exhibitions in Ireland, Great Britain, Europe and Canada; and he was a member of the Print 2001 group, an exchange of Irish and French contemporary printmakers which held its exhibition in Paris. Colin is a member of the prestigious and influential Black Church Print Studio in Dublin’s Temple Bar district.