About

BA (Hons) in Fine Art, BMus, MA.

I am a visual artist living and working in Cork, having completed a BA (hons) in Fine Art at the Crawford College of Art & Design Cork with First Class Honours, spending part of my studies on Erasmus in the University of Art & Design, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.

Work in 2021 included solo exhibitions in The Lavit Gallery and the Joan Clancy Gallery, Studio 12 Backwater Artist Studios, and Sample Studios at St Luke’s Crypt. This was a culmination of being the recipient of numerous awards including the CCAD Class of 2020 Valerie Gleeson Development Bursary, Joan Clancy Gallery Annual Exhibition Award, Lavit Gallery Student of the Year, Ciarán Langford Memorial Bursary – Backwater Artists Group, CCAD Graduate Residency Award and the Sample-Studios Graduate Studio Residency Award.

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

‘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 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

2022

Translations, with Flavia Lugigan (Cluj-Napoca, Romania), at Nano Nagle Place, Cork

Group Exhibitions

2022

Generation 2022: New Irish Painting, Butler Gallery, Kilkenny

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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Interview with Michelle Whelan of CorkAbout! for Friends of the Crawford
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