Education
1996 - 1997 MA Painting Chelsea College of Art and Design
1991 - 1995 BA Hons Fine Art, 1st Class, University of Newcastle upon Tyne
Awards and Prizes
Runner up, BP Portrait Award, 2011
1st Prize, NatWest Prize for Art, 1995
Runner up, BP Portrait Award, 1995
Solo Exhibitions
2019 Diarmuid Kelley, Stellan Hom Gallery / Offer Waterman, New York
2017 Akzidenz-Grotesk, Offer Waterman, London
2014 All Cats Are Grey, Offer Waterman, London
2011 20/21 British Art Fair, Royal College of Art, London
2010 Recent Works, Offer Waterman & Co, London
2009 Autumn Journal, Offer Waterman & Co, London
2006 Recent Paintings, Offer Waterman & Co, London
2001 This Is The Modern World, Offer Waterman & Co, London
1998 Diarmuid Kelley, Offer Waterman & Co, London
Selected Group Exhibitions
2011 The Figure, Browse & Darby, London
2010 BP Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery, London
2007 Hinterland, Thomas Williams Fine Art, London
2007 BP Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery, London
2004 Illuminate, Jasmine Studios, Hammersmith, London
2001 BP Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery, London
1999 BP Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery, London
1999 Royal Society of Portrait Painters, Mall Gallery, London
1998 BP Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery, London
1998 Royal Society of Portrait Painters, Mall Gallery, London
1997 MA Degree Show, Chelsea College of Art and Design, London
1996 Art in Academia, Christie's, London
1995 NatWest Prize for Art, Royal Academy of Arts, London
1995 BP Portrait Award, National Portrait Gallery, London
1995 Northern Graduates, Royal College of Art, London
1995 BA Degree Show, Hatton Gallery, University of Newcastle
Literature
2002 Edward Lucie-Smith, Art Tomorrow, Terrail, Paris, p107 illus colour
Commissions
2015 Sir Richard Thomson, commissioned for the permanent collection of the Royal College of Physicians, London
2014 Artist accompanying TRH the Duke and Duchess of Cornwall on a royal tour of Mexico and Colombia, October 2014
2012 HRH Duchess of Cornwall, private commission
2010 Dame Anne Owers, commissioned for the permanent collection of the National Portrait Gallery, London