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Curriculum Vitae

EDUCATION
2011- 2013 MA in Fine Art Printmaking, Royal College of Art, London, UK
2001- 2002 BA Honors Degree in Fine Art Printmaking Limerick School of Art and Design
1998- 2001 BA Honors Diploma in Fine Art Printmaking Limerick School of Art and Design

AWARDS
2011 Individual Artist Bursary Award, Cork City Council
2011 Visual Arts: Travel & Training Award, Arts Council Ireland
2011 Culture Ireland Award
2011 Artists Bursary Award 2011, South Tipperary County Council
2011 Morgan Doyle Bursary Award
2010 Culture Ireland Award
2007 Visual Arts: Travel & Training Award, Arts Council Ireland
2007 Cork Printmakers Residency Award 2007
2005 Art Trail Emerging Artist
2003 Artists Tax Exemption
2001 The Jim Gilligan Award

RESIDENCIES
2010 Centre for Print Research, UWE, Bristol June '10
2009 Druckswerkstatt, Kulturwerk des bbk Berlin, Germany. July ’09. 
2009 Artist in Residence, New Moon Dance Company, Cork
2007 Lower East Side Printshop, Manhattan, New York City. USA
          October - November ’07

COMMISSIONS
2011 Beastie Boys, Hot Sauce Committee Part Two Album Cover (Shortlisted)
2011 Macropsia, Brown Thomas, Cork. 2011
2009 An Criubin, Union Quay, Cork
2009 Cork Cycling Festival, July '09
2008 ArtTrail and Blackrock Castle Observatory, Commission 2008
     
CURRENT EXHIBITIONS
2012 Alphabet, National Print Museum, Dublin. February 12
2010 Macropsia, Backwater Artists Group, Wandesford Quay, Cork. September '10 (ongoing)

UPCOMING EXHIBITIONS
2012 Sub-plots, Sirus Arts Centre, Cork.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010 'we see them as we are', Limerick Printmakers Gallery, Limerick. July '10
2009 Paper, ArtTrail, Site Specific Patricks Street, Cork. November '09
2009 boy, girl,  Ard Bia Gallery, Galway. October '09
2005 Art Trail Emerging Artist, Form Gallery, Cork. Nov- Dec ’05
2005 sogo, The Launderette Gallery, Cork. May ’05
2005 Pinstripe, South Tipperary Art Centre, Co. Tipperary. April ’05
2004 Plastic Candy, The Front Lounge, Templebar, Dublin. Oct- Nov ’04
2004 Plastic Candy, Signals Art Centre, Co. Wicklow. June- July ’04
2004 Plastic Candy, Limerick Printmakers, Limerick. Feb- March ’04
2003 Mimo, Patrick’s Quay, Cork. February- November ’03
2002 Liquid Identity, UCC, Cork. March ’03 (with Conor Harrington)
2002 Bodega, Coal Quay, Cork. December ’02- April ’03

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012 Work In Progress, Royal College of Art, London, April. '12
2012 I took the lift to the sixth floor, Cafe Gallery Project, London. March '12
2012 We Are A Strange Loop, Hockney Gallery, London. January '12
2011 Cork Printmakers Winter 2011, Wandesford Quay Gallery Cork. December '11
2011 Place/Space, Wandesford Quay Gallery Cork. November '11
2011 Twentyfour, Artrail, Cork. November '11
2011 Art Work Embassy, The Elysian, Cork. November '11
2011 Sub-plots, allerArt, Bludenz, Austria. September '11
2011 New Prints 2011/Summer, Selected by Trenton Doyle Hancock, International Print Center New York, New York. June '11
2011 Alphabet Series, Irish Arts Centre, New York. April '11
2011 Art of Fashion, Brown Thomas Cork. April '11
2011 24 Hours, Limerick Printmakers Gallery, Limerick. February '11
2010 Cork Printmakers, Wandesford Quay Gallery, Cork. December '10
2010 Excavate, Cork Public Museum, Cork. October '10
2010 Tears, Trash and Decay, Yarra Sculpture Gallery, Victoria, Australia. August '10
2010 Bitter Sweet: expressions of love and hate, Macroom Town Hall, Cork. August '10
2010 Super Impose, Kinsale Arts Week, July '10
2010 Super 8 Shot, Galway, June '10
2010 Forensic, Dare to Joust, London, March '10
2010 Backwater Twenty 10, Crawford Art Gallery Cork. March '10
2010 Center for the Arts Main Stage,SUNY Buffalo, New York, USA. Feb '10
2010 Breath, Bluewall Gallery, Cavan. February '10
2010 Bitter Sweet: expressions of love and hate, Doswell Gallery, Cork. February '10
2009 Today I joined a gang. In the woods, Triskel Arts Centre, Cork. December ‘09
2009 Mouse Print Gallery, Concordia University, Montreal. Dec ‘09
2009 Wandesford Gallery, Christmas Show, Cork. December ‘09
2009 Fifth Parallel Gallery, University Of Regina, Canada. November '09
2009 Box id - Round 11, Original Print Gallery, Dublin 1. September '09
2009 PrintZero, Seattle, USA. August '09
2009 For The Love Of, Mill Street Gallery, Dublin 8 July '09
2009 Fruitcakes and Furry Collars, Skibbereen. Co. Cork. February ’09
2008 Gallery Number One, Dublin 2. December ’08
2008 Cork Printmakers, Christmas Showcase. December ’08
2008 Node, Original Print Gallery, Templebar, Dublin, September ’08
2008 Donkey Mill Art Center, Holualoa, Hawai, July ’08
2008 Charles Tyrrell Selects, Gallery One, Kinsale, Cork. July ’08
2008 Against the Monotony, The Loft Gallery, Dublin 2. February ’08
2007 Horrace Mann Gallery, New York City, New York. USA. Nov ’07
2007 Iontas, Small Works Exhibition. Sligo Art Gallery. Sligo. July ‘07
2007 Cead in China, Shanghai, Beijing, Hangzhou, China. March ’07
2006 Cork Printmakers, Christmas Showcase. CPM December ’06
2006 Impressions, Galway Arts Centre, Galway. December ’06
2006 Limerick Printmakers Print Exhibition, Limerick Printmakers, September ’06
2006 Summer Show, Art Haven, Cross Haven, Cork. July ’06
2006 Life During War Time, Baker Place, Limerick. May ’06
2005 Christmas Exhibition, Form Gallery, Cork. December ’05
2005 Cork Printmakers Christmas Exhibition, Cork Printmakers, Cork Dec ’05
2005 Summer Show, The Launderette Gallery, Cork. July ’05
2005 Dark on Light, Shandon Gallery, Cork. June ’05
2005 Preview, The Launderette Gallery, Cork. April ’05
2004 C2, Crawford Municipal Art Gallery December ’04- January ’05
2004 Cork Printmakers Christmas Exhibition, CPM, Cork. Dec ’04
2003 New Works, Doswells Gallery, Limerick. October ’03
2003 New Works, Droichead Arts Centre, September ‘03
2003 New Works, Siamsia Tire Theatre and Arts Centre, Tralee, Co. Kerry. Aug ’03
2003 New Works, Wexford Arts Centre, Co. Wexford. July ’03
2003 New Works, Vangard Gallery, Cork. May- June ’03
2002 South Tipperary Arts Centre, Clonmel, Co. Tipperary. December ’02- Jan ’03
2002 Impressions 8, Galway Arts Centre, Galway. September- October ’02
2002 LSAD Graduate Show, Limerick School of Art & Design. July ’02
2002 Graduate Show, T.R.B.D.I. Main Campus, Thurles, Co. Tipperary. January - February ’02
2001 Graduate Show, South Tipperary Arts Centre, Co.Tipperary Oct- Nov ‘01
2001 LSAD Graduate Show, Limerick School of Art & Design. June ’01

COLLECTIONS
2005 Artfund Collection, Cork.
2001 Jim Gilligan Collection, Clonmel, Co. Tipperary.

PUBLICATIONS
2011 Irish Arts Review, "Cork Printmakers at Twenty"  Angela Griffith, Winter Issue p92-95
2011 ArtReview, p69 Summer Issue 2011
2011 Place/Space, 2011
2011 National Interest, Arttrail 2011
2010 Evening Echo, "Artists Inspired by Museum Treasures" 15/10/10
2010 Limerick Leader, "Marianne Keating Exhibition at Limerick Printmakers Gallery" Adrian Butler, p12&13, 28/7/10.
2010 Limerick Leader, "Beetlemania and more at the Printmakers Gallery", 20/7/10
2010 Creative Review, "Super Impose Kinsale Arts Week" Patrick Burgoyne 15/7/10 http://www.creativereview.co.uk/cr-blog/2010/july/superimpose
2010 The Irish Examiner, "Twenty Years A-Growing" article by Vera Ryan, p16 26/3/'10
2010 The Irish Examiner, In Style,  p13 12/3/'10
2010 The Irish Times Magazine, "Displaying the Blues"  p6 27/2/'10
2010 The Sunday Buisness Post, 14/2/'10
2010 Backwater Twenty 10
2010 Review
2009 The Irish Examiner,Today I Joined a Gang. In the Woods by Marc O’ Sullivian,  p20 17/12/09
2009 The Great Indoors Magazine, “Art of the wall” Edition 3 Vol 1 Winter 09/10 http://www.thegreatindoorsmagazine.com/offthewall.html
2009 The Great Indoors Magazine, Today I joined a gang. In the woods. Edition 3 Vol 1 Winter 09/10 http://www.thegreatindoorsmagazine.com/artexpo3.html
2009 The Irish Examiner, "Is that a fly in my cup or a flight of fancy?" by Carol O' Callaghan 31/10/'09
2009 Today I joined a gang. In the woods, Triskel.
2009 ArtTrail, Cork.
2008 The Irish Examiner, “Home a work of art” by Carol O’ Callaghan 8/11/’08
2008 The Irish Times, article by Bernice Harrison October ’08.
2008 The Irish Examiner, article by Eoin English October ’08.
2008 Evening Echo, p17 7th October ’08.
2008 Evening Echo, p42 29th September ’08.
2008 The Irish Examiner, article by Marc O’Sullivan 19th September ’08.
2008 ArtTrail. Cork
2007 Iontas, Sligo Art Gallery.
2007 Cead In China, 411 Gallery, Shanghai, China.
2005 Karnival Magazine, Issue 1, Volume 1. January ’05.
2005 Babel Magazine, Issue 1 Volume 1. January ’05.
2005 Art Trail, Cork
2005 C2, Crawford Municipal Art Gallery.
2004 Art Trail, Cork
2003 The Irish Examiner, 16th March ’03.

MEMBER
2009- Present 4 Year Studio Award, Backwater Artist Group, Cork.
2006- '09 Artist Studio’s, Singers Corner, Washington Street. Cork.
2004- ’06 Studio 23, 23 Washington Street, Cork.
2002- ’04 Marlborough Street Studio’s, 9 Marlborough Street, Cork.
2002- Present Full- time member of Cork Printmakers, Cork.

 

Artist Statement

“We don’t see things as they are,
       we see things as we are”
                                                      -Anais Nin

This body of work is an exploration of the individual and their perceptions of reality, focusing on the how the recurring motifs of the outside world may alter and impact on the inner ideals and morals of even the most incorruptible and faithful. Through the use of symbolism I aim to convey/challenge people’s perceptions of each other.

The symbol of the fly has been used since early times, as a recurring representation of evil, plague and pestilence, the Greek God, Myiagros, is the God of Flies and Fly–Swatting. The Fourth Plague of Egypt brought forth a swarm of flies:
Exodus 8:24
And the LORD did so; and there came grievous swarms of flies into the house of Pharaoh, and into his servants' houses: and in all the land of Egypt the land was corrupted by reason of the swarms of flies.

More frequently flies are used as a symbol of our own morality and insignificance, as in Shakespeare’s, King Lear “ …as flies to wanton boys, are we th’ gods;
They kill us for their sport.”

In Franz Kafka’s Metamorphis, Kafka's powerful and symbolic portrayal of alienation is achieved through the literalized metaphor of man as insect (The Beetle). The main character, who lives only to work and to provide for his family, awakes to find himself transformed into a giant beetle. This acts as a metaphor for human life. Through the use of symbolism I create pieces that surround the viewer. As the pieces grow and spread from floor to wall and ceiling. I aim to take the work out of the frame, off the canvas and directly into the surrounding physical space blurring the line between print and the space it occupies.

As the insects creep across the interior and exterior gallery space the scales of the beetles begin to enlarge, altering the viewer’s sense of perception. This Macropsia a common result of Alice in Wonderland Syndrome (AIWS, named after the novel written by Lewis Carroll), is a neurological condition affecting human visual perception, in which objects within an affected section of the visual field appear larger than normal, causing the subject to feel smaller.

The medium that I work in is an integral element of the concept in terms of the overall communication. I have also developed a body of work in conjunction with the Institute for Print Research, UWE, Bristol with highly regarded researchers Elizabeth Tunell and Tom Sowden. The focus of this work is an investigation into the use of innovative and experimental enameling techniques for the production of a large-scale laser cut enameled exterior installation. The scale of the work ranges from 142cm x 113cm to 35cm x 28cm.

Through the use of large—scale, laser-cut enameled steel with its slick smooth impermeable print finish is juxtaposed with wallpaper which most commonly provides a backdrop in our everyday domestic setting. Think wallpaper, and we think of warm, familiar, maternal, cozy interiors that are unassumingly, ever present elements of a home, Unobserved and merged into the background, its innate repetition acts as a camouflage, or possibly a whispered message cloaked in invisibility. The wallpapers, and other works, are all consuming, at first glance they portray a benign decorative aesthetic, but on closer examination a darker less obvious message is implied.