Darach Casey

College: National College of Art and Design, Dublin.

Degree: B. Dec. (Hon). Glass.

Exhibitions include:

• The Signal Art Gallery Bray (2002 and 2001),
• Knott's Hall Monkstown (2006 and 2005)
• Rosemount Decanter Design Competition at the National Museum of Decorative Arts, Collins Barracks, 2005,
• Represented the glass department of NCAD at Flaire in Belfast 2006.
• Have been accepted into Sculpture in Context (2007).

Commissions include:

The Forum of People with Disabilities 2001 (a carved work of Irish cherry wood with a beeswax finish) presented to Mary Robinson, High Commissioner for her office in Geneva.

Additional experiences and merits include:

Working with the Lambert Puppet Theatre to create a marionette, 'Angelina and Papillon' performed at the Pavilion Theatre, Dun Laoghaoire, 2001. Received thirteen distinctions with Artlink and holds a Fetac Level Five Award, he retains a Cooks Ticket, received through his experience as a Merchants Seaman.

Darach is a Carpenter/ Joiner by trade. Spent several years with Irish Shipping as a Cook.