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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Deirdre Frost 