BA (Hons) in Fine Art, BMus, MA.
Deirdre Frost is a visual artist based in Backwater Artist Studios, Cork, working primarily in oil painting on wood, using imagery from her everyday built and natural environments, reconfigured in order to consider new narratives.
Frost is represented by Kevin Kavanagh, Dublin.
Awards 2024
Arts Council Agility Award
Cork City Council Individual Artist Bursary
Awards 2022
Arts Council Agility Award
Awards 2021
CCAD Class of 2020 Valerie Gleeson Development Bursary
Awards 2020
Joan Clancy Gallery Annual Exhibition Award
Sample Studios Residency Studio Award
Lavit Gallery Student of the Year
Ciarán Langford Memorial Bursary – Backwater Artists Group
CCAD Graduate Residency Award
Commission/Project
2022
‘Your Collection, Your Choice’ DCU, Glasnevin. Selected artist for feature commission in main reception area.
‘Memory of Place’ Glucksman UCC in collaboration with Cork City Partnership. Commissioned artwork exhibited in the Glucksman May 17th -29th then part of touring collection.
Solo Exhibitions
September 2025: Blue Skies, Black Earth, GOMA Gallery of Modern Art, Waterford
January 2025: Tumbling Earth, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin
August 2023: BIG CRUSH, St Kieran’s Festival Gallery, Kilkenny Arts Festival
September 2021: In Habitat, In Transition, Studio 12, Backwater Artist Studios, Cork
In Habitat, In Transition, St Lukes Crypt, Sample-Studios, Cork
June 2021: Claochló, Joan Clancy Gallery Exhibition Award, An Rinn, Co. Waterford
Feb 2021: ‘Biophilia’, Lavit Gallery Student of the Year, Lavit Gallery, Cork
2-Person Exhibition
2024
Civilisation Blooming, with Seiko Hayase at Lavit Gallery, Cork
2022
Translations, with Flavia Lugigan (Cluj-Napoca, Romania), at Nano Nagle Place, Cork
Group Exhibitions
2025
New Irish Art, Lavit Gallery, Cork
2024
Magic and Loss, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin
Drawn Works, The Long Space, Backwater Artist Studios, Cork
Field Trip, Backwater Artists Group exhibition at Lavit Gallery, Cork. Curated by Kevin Kavanagh & Alannah Murray
Stories of Art, Glucksman, UCC, Cork
2023
Lavit Gallery Winter Group Exhibition, Lavit Gallery, Cork
2022
Generation 2022: New Irish Painting, Butler Gallery, Kilkenny
Lavit Gallery Summer Group Exhibition, Lavit Gallery Cork
Lavit Gallery Winter Group Exhibition, Lavit Gallery, Cork
2020
Rhetoric, Crawford College of Art & Design Degree Show – online
Sample Studios Winter Exhibition, Lord Mayor’s Pavilion, Cork
Lavit Gallery Members Exhibition, Lavit Gallery, Cork
2018
Lavit Gallery Members Exhibition, Lavit Gallery, Cork
2017
Lavit Gallery Members Exhibition, Lavit Gallery, Cork
Media
Sunday Independent, ‘Portals into nature and out of urban jungles’ by Niall MacMonagle, June 13th 2021
RTE Nationwide, 19th April 2021.
Irish Arts Review, Volume 37 (3), Winter Dec. 2020-Feb.2021. p. 50
Artistic Licence: Deirdre Frost. The Gloss Magazine, by Penny McCormick, Feb. 2021. Access: https://thegloss.ie/artistic-license-deirdre-frost/
‘Cork Artist Puts Natural and Built Environment in the Frame’, Irish Examiner, Property, by Des O’Sullivan. 13th Feb. 2021. Access: https://www.irishexaminer.com/property/homeandoutdoors/arid-40223873.html
Dungarvan Leader, July 2020
Irish Examiner, Property, 22nd Feb. 2020. Image: Scissors, Oil on canvas, 2019
The Arts House with Elmarie Mawe, Cork’s 96FM, 28th Feb. 2021:
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Deirdre Frost 