 His first students to do so, graduated in July 2006.Kearney was part of the innovative art group 'explosure' from 1995 to 1998; he was co-director of the artist run House Gallery from 2000 to 2006; and was director of Camberwell Arts in 2002.In 2001, he curated Sir Terry Frost's only solo show in Camberwell where Frost originally studied art after the Second World War.