Curriculum Vitae

Pádraig Naughton

Qualifications & Awards

Bachelor of Design (2:1) ANCAD National College of Art & Design, Dublin 1989-93

• Major in Ceramics with supporting specialisms in Art/Craft History, Design Methods & Drawing, Aesthetics, Media, Film and Business Studies

Post-Graduate Certificate in Education Bretton Hall College of the University of Leeds, West Yorkshire 1997-98

• Major in Art & Design Secondary School Teaching with a secondary subject in Design Technology

Artists Exemption Section 195, Taxes Consolidation Act 1997, from April 2000

• Category D: Painting or other like pictures
• Category E: Sculpture

Employment Grant Mid-South Roscommon Rural Development Co. 1999-2000

• Leader II funding for the setting up of a studio, establishing of a web site and mounting and framing of drawings

Arts & Disability Awards Ireland Irish & Northern Ireland Arts Councils 2000-2001

• Funding for the development of new large scale tactile ceramic sculpture

Celtic Links Arts & Cultural Bursary Leader II funded exchange between Roscommon and Ross-Cromarty Scotland, June/July 1999 & May 2000

• 8 days of touch-art workshops in secondary schools and centres to produce a tactile wall mural June/July 1999
• 'Journey' An exhibition by artists from Roscommon and Ross-Cromarty Mullingar April 2000 and Inverness May 2000

NRB Research Grant/Arts Council of Ireland Travel Award

• Participate in touch-art workshops and visit art departments in schools for the blind in Japan and the TOM Gallery in Tokyo May 94

Art Flight

• Participate in 'Cities of the World Within Reach' Rome 1994

Radio Experimenter

• Granted the call sign EI8FNB, July 2001

ABAPSTAS Association of Blind & Partially Sighted Teachers & Students

• Elected to Executive Committee 1999-2000, Bulletin Editor 2000-2001

Residencies

Artist in Residence & Teacher

• Richard Attenborough Centre for Disability & the Arts, University of Leicester 1994-96

Theatre Design

• 'Knocknashee' Tall Tales Theatre Co., Dublin, in collaboration with Robert Lane & Jacqueline Carey, Dec 2001-Jan 2002

Exhibitions

• Graduate Show, National College of Art & Design, Dublin 1993 (Group show)
• Celebrating Difference, City Arts Centre, Dublin 1993 (& travelling show 1993-95) (Group show)
• Touch, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin 1993 (Group show)
• Very Special Arts Festival, Royal Museum, Brussels 1994 (Group show)
• My Hands on You, Richard Attenborough Centre, Leicester University 1995(One man show)
• Still Life, Dept. of Arts, Culture & Gaeltacht (Organised by APIC Centre), Dublin 1996 (Group show)
• My Hands on You, Diorama Gallery, (Supported by the London Disability Arts Forum) London 1996 (One man show)
• From the Red Train, Brideswell International Celtic Festival 1997 (One man show)
• Artists at Work, Richard Attenborough Centre, Leicester University 1998 (Group show)
• Images From My Place Tactile & Visual, Brideswell International Celtic Festival 1998 (One man show)
• In Focus, Ulster Museum Belfast, May. Travelling exhibition in Northern Ireland June-October 1999 (Group show)
• Dots & Dashes, Roscommon Arts & Crafts Association exhibition, Foxford, July-August 1999 (Group show)
• Observations, Roscommon Arts & Crafts Association Group Show, The Station Masters House, Kiltimagh, September 1999 (Group show)
• A Filtered Landscape, The Rothwell Gallery, Athlone, 1999 (One man show)
• Journey, A collaborative exhibition by Irish and Scottish Artists Mullingar Arts Centre and Inverness Museum & Art Gallery April-June 2000 (Group show)
• The Body in Mind, Richard Attenborough Centre, Leicester University November 2000 (Group show)
• Seeing it Both Ways, City Arts Centre, Dublin, August 2001 (One man show)
• Seeing it Both Ways, Clotworthy Arts Centre, Antrim Castle, April 2002 (One man show)

Conferences & Seminar Speaker

• National Arts and Disability Conference, Dublin, November 1994
• History/Theory/Practice, Nenne College, Northampton, November 1994
• Art and the Visually Impaired, Roehampton Institute, London, May 1995
• Images of Art Images of Disability, Skill Conference, Sunderland, June 1995
• Against the Odds, Art Education and Special Educational Needs, Bretton Hall College of the University of Leeds, April 1996
• Visual Impairment and Art, PGCE Art and Design students, Bretton Hall College, November 1997
• Disability, Design & Fine Art Practice, Elective Undergraduate Lecture Series, Camberwell College of Arts, The London Institute, November 1998
• Guest Speaker, AGM of Northern Ireland Arts & Disability Forum, Lisnaskea, May 1999
• Arts Intervention Conference, Dublin, February 2000
• Enhancing the Course Offer, London Institute, July 2000
• Arts & Disability Awards 2001, Media Launch, Belfast, June 2001

Touch Art Workshops

• Loughborough College of Art & Design, December 1994
• Adult Education Course University of Leicester, October 95-March 1996
• Art Through Touch, London, December 1997 & December 1998
• Hereward College, Coventry, February 1998, March 2000 & May 2001
• Art Link Highland Mural Project, Scotland, June/July 1999,
  Highland Society for the Blind Inverness,
  Fortrose Academy,
  Isabel Rhind Centre Invergordon,
  Invergordon Academy,
  St Clement's Special School Dingwall
  The Ceilidh Place, Ullapool.
  
• Abbey National School, Roscommon, March 2001
• Abbey National School, Roscommon, March 2002

Membership of Professional Organisations

• Artists Association of Ireland (by satisfying criteria and vetting by board)
• Sculpture Society of Ireland (by satisfying criteria)

Last updated: 16 April 2002

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