Lecturer and professional artist, born, raised living, working and creating in County Sligo. Educated in IT Sligo, Limerick School of Art & Design, OCADU, Toronto, Canada and in 1997 awarded a Masters Degree in Fine Art from the University of Ulster, Belfast. Since 1989, she has been creating art, lecturing at third level and voluntarily promoting the arts. Her practice is diverse, explorative and innovative. Hilary is a winner of several public art commissions, travel awards from the Irish Arts Council and an arts bursary from Belfast City Council. Exhibitions, performances or lectures have travelled beyond Ireland to the United Kingdom, Germany, Estonia, Canada, Australia and Japan. She gave birth to her biggest ever-creative project in the form of  a baby girl in 2006. Since then she has been involved in the struggle of Creating Babies versus Art.