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EDUCATION

2020-2021: Postgrad in Creative & Cultural Entrepreneurship, Trinity College Dublin
2013-2016: LSAD Limerick School of Art and Design; BA First Class Honours Degree Ceramic Design
2012-2013: LCFE Limerick College of Further Education: Art & Design Diploma
2000-2001: City & Guilds Creative Textiles Diploma
1973-1974: Limerick School of Art
2020: Residency, Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Annaghmakerrig
2020: Selected for the Argillà Italia 2020, International Ceramics event, Faenza, Italy
2020/21: Selected for Crafting Europe, iAtelier Online: Technology & Innovative Practice
2019/20: Residency, Ceramics Department, Limerick School of Art & Design
2019/2020: Participant in TAP, Teacher Artist Partnership with County Clare schools
2019: Summer Residency + Symposium in Nurri, Sardinia, June 2019

AWARDS

2021: Arts Council Agility Award
2020: ‘The Gift’ – Design commission from Clare Arts Office in partnership with Creative ireland
2019: Design Commission – Installations celebrating the new Dermatology Department in the Leben building, UHL Limerick.
2019: Design commission for the LIT Inaugural Award for Outstanding Alumni
2019: International Arts & Crafts Design Award, Certificate of Excellence of the A&CDA 2018
2018: Shortlisted 2018 RDS Craft award
2018: Winner of the Design & Craft Council of Ireland’s (DCCoI) Future Makers Travel & Training Support Award
2018: Selected for Craft Biennale SCOTLAND 2018 Open International Exhibition (event cancelled)
2018: Recipient of Merit Award from Trinity College Book of Kells Creative Competition
2017: Winner of DCCoI Future Makers Studio Support Award
2016: Shortlisted DCCoI Future Makers Award
2016: Purchase Award, Degree Show, LSAD
2015: Selectors Choice (Irish Museum of Modern Art) Drawing Awards, Limerick School of Art

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2021: Made in Ireland Exhibition, National Design & Craft Gallery, Kilkenny
2021: KFest Arts Festival, Co Kerry
2020/21: Winter Open Exhibition, Courthouse Gallery, Co. Clare
2020: Ceramics Ireland Clay/works Exhibition, Printworks, Dublin Castle
2019: Ceramics Ireland Annual Selected Members Exhibition, Pearse Museum, Dublin
2019: Ceramics Ireland Printworks Exhibition, Dublin Castle
2019: OCAP Selected Exhibition, Oughterard Courthouse Gallery, Co. Galway
2019: Irish Design Works 2019 – Design Island, Tribeton Gallery, Galway
2019: ‘Out of this Earth’ Ceramic Exhibition, Blue House Gallery, Schull, Co. Cork
2019: LCA ‘Obair Nua’ Exhibition, Belltable, Limerick
2019: KFest Selected Arts Exhibition, Co. Kerry
2018: Sculpture in Context, Botanic Gardens, Dublin
2018: Mill Cove Ceramic Award exhibition, Kenmare, Co. Kerry
2018: Summer Exhibition, The Cill Rialaig Arts Centre, Co. Kerry
2018: LCA ‘Vitreous’ Exhibition, Belltable, Limerick
2018: Ceramics Ireland Touchstone Exhibition, National Design & Craft Gallery, Kilkenny
2017: Celebrating Traditions Exhibition, Hunt Museum, Limerick
2017: LCA, PigTown Exhibition, FabLab, Limerick
2017: Ceramics Ireland Printworks Exhibition, Dublin Castle
2017: New Designers Exhibition for Emerging Design, London
2017: Mill Cove Irish Ceramic Awards Exhibition, Kenmare, Co. Kerry
2017: Ceramics Ireland Touchstone Exhibition, Farmleigh, Dublin 2017
2016: Ceramics Ireland Annual Selected Members Exhibition, Pearse Museum, Dublin
2016: Ceramics Ireland Members Exhibition, Cowshed Gallery, Farmleigh, Dublin
2016: Graduate Show LSAD
2015: OPEN Ceramic Exhibition, LSAD
2015: 1260 Exhibition, Limerick
2015: Selectors Choice (IMMA), Drawing Awards LSAD
2014: Culinaria Exhibition, LSAD

COLLECTIONS

LSAD Purchase Award, 2016
OPW State Collection 2018

BIBLIOGRAPHY

HOME Interiors Magazine, Flegg, Eleanor: A Handmade Tale; Sept/Oct 2019, p.46
Ceramics Ireland, Issue 43 – 2019; Ann McBride – A Graphic Sensibility in a 3D Form
Ceramics Ireland, Issue 41 – 2018; Group exhibition article/Limerick Ceramic Artists in the Belltable, Limerick.
Flegg, Eleanor: Design Perspective; Ann McBride, The Irish Arts Review, Vol. 34, Number 366, Autumn 2017, p.62.