Born on the Northside of Dublin, Dermot is an artist, illustrator, and animation designer who works between Ireland and the United Kingdom. He has worked with a diverse base of high profile international clients, including Pentagram, Paramount, Apple, Disney, The New Yorker, The Guardian, Macmillan, Adidas, Vodafone, Vogue, HSBC, Christie’s, Harpers Bazaar, Winkreative, Canongate, Toyota Japan, Oxford University Press, UBS, The Irish Times, StudioAKA, Pernod-Ricard, and British Airways. His work has won numerous awards, including the Macmillan Prize for Children’s Book Illustration and a Silver Lion at Cannes Advertising Festival.
Highlights of his career include illustrations for Mary Portas’ report on the state of the British High Street; appearing on TV creating portraits of celebrities in chocolate, toast, and Marmite; being threatened with legal action for creating portraits of celebrities in toothpaste, production designs for a Disney film about a school for fairy godmothers, and illustrating a Christmas poem for Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy.