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Visual art
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Cuan an Chláir Public Art Commissions
Cuan An Chlair has seen two commissions Fountain by Lewis Goodman The Harvest Time of Life by Peter McMorrow
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Shifting Ground: Rural Arts Partnership Project 2006
A project focussing on development of contemporary arts practice in rural contexts.
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Tones Studio Residency Award
As part of our Arts Plan we have prioritised working with disadvantaged and marginalised communities in Clare. We are committed…
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Visual Voices
https://youtu.be/ON6XtrTEy9I In 2021, during COVID, Clare Arts Office launched Visual Voices, a series of free online art tours specifically…
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Embrace Residency Award Programme
The Embrace Residency Award Programme The Embrace Residency Programme has been designed to create the following opportunities for artists with…
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Reflections Symposium
A symposium on the Gaining Ground public art programme in glór Friday September 4th, 2020 Moderator : Helen Carroll broadcaster,…
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Cruinniú na nÓg
An annual national event aimed at children, young people and families.
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Decade of Centenaries Commissions 2022
In 2021 and 2022 Clare County Council commissioned a number of artists to commemorate the Decade of Centenaries Funded by…
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Verge Symposium
Monday 19th April 2010 in Galway Mayo Institute of Technology The aim of this symposium was to consider the form…
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River Residency – RISING by William Bock
Filmed along the shores of the Shannon estuary, RISING by William Bock depicts individuals and family groups as they emerge from the silt, covered in the river mud, returning back to their everyday lives.
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Light Ballet
Created by Irish Light Artist Mick Murray and Lighting Designer Matthew Cregan, Light Ballet will transform the skies and surrounding…
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Decade of Centenaries Commissions 2021
Decade of Centenaries Arts Project Awards In 2021 and 2022 Clare County Council commissioned a number of artists to commemorate…
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Culture Night
Culture Night is a national initiative each September which normally sees approximately 50 cultural events take place in over 15…
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Dial a Seanchaí 2021
Dial A Seanchaí is a unique audio experience celebrating Irish folklore, storytelling, and song.
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PRISM Street Art Project
Over the years Clare has seen beautiful, engaging, quirky and provocative street art by the likes of Conor Harrington, Eva…
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Keystone: Arts in Education Commission
Keystone – Marking 20 years of artist in schools programming by Clare Arts Office. A new art project, commissioned by…
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Eco Showboat
The ECO Showboat plans to visit The Crannóg Ceoil (Musical Island) in Mountshannon in Spring 2022
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The Art of Place
The Art of Place: People and Landscape of County Clare offers tantalising glimpses into the personal lives and creative processes of…
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Folk Radio at the XPO
Folk Radio was an artist led FM radio station initiated by Tom Flanagan at X-PO in Kilnaboy, Co Clare, which…
Matching People
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Sheelagh Keane
My art career has been intertwined for many years with a career in social work. I grew up in West…
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Doreen Drennan
Doreen Drennan is a visual artist based between Lisdoonvarna and Doolin and originally from Achill Island Co. Mayo. She has…
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Beata Rosik
Beata Rosik is based in Ennis, Co Clare. She is originally from Poland. She is a Fine Art Photographer. She…
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Michelle Fallon
Originally from Ennis, visual artist Michelle Fallon Toft is currently based in Corofin, Co. Clare. Her love of painting, drawing…
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Richard Andreucetti
Richard Andreucetti is an Irish visual artist working and living in Kildysart, in County Clare. As well as being a…
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Julia Rice O’Dea
I love to tell stories, be it with a paintbrush, pen or camera. A handful of penned and illustrated children’s…
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Nagy Anita
Resident in Ireland since 2017, a Hungarian blood with an Irish heart. I speak 3 languages: Hungarian, Italian and English.…
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John Lillis
John Lillis is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Liscannor in Co.Clare. He works primarily in the areas of recording, music,…
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David O Rourke
David studied sculpture at N.C.A.D. and more recently Jungian psychology with art therapy. He has been a practicing artist for…
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Ruth Wood
Ruth Wood is a visual artist based in West Clare. She is a graduate from the Limerick School of Art…
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Jackie Askew
Jackie Askew is a visual artist based in Ennistymon Co. Clare since 1998. She makes abstract paintings, drawings and collages…
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Moran Been-noon
Moran Been-noon is a Dublin-based visual artist and independent curator. As an artist she predominantly makes moving image installations, with…
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Christina Bennett
I am a multi-disciplinary artist, working in painting, making, film, writing and craft. Much of my work expresses the stories…
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Hannah Arnup
Hannah Arnup Hannah is based in Cratloe, Co. Clare. She graduated from Kingston College of Art BA (Hons Fine Art…
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Larisa K Bevillard
Larisa is a professional visual artist and alumni of the Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.…
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Carmel Madigan
Carmel T. Madigan is a professional visual artist, original from the Bridges of Ross, Loophead. She holds a 2.1 Honours…
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Marie Connole
Marie Connole has exhibited at the Irish Arts Center New York USA, National Gallery of Ireland, EVA International and the…
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Éilís Murphy
I am a visual artist who draws inspiration from forgotten or lost knowledge; interspecies communication and language; hidden narratives and…
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Aine Rynne
Aine Rynne is an artist based in Miltown Malbay, West Clare. She has a BA in Film and TV from…
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Helen Lowe
Artist Helen Lowe, lives in Quin, Co.Clare. She is a visual artist with many paintings sold worldwide. Helen Lowes’ paintings…
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Ciara Malone
Ciara is a a multi-disciplinary artist for over 25 years and has had numerous exhibitions nationally and internationally. Her work…
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Marianne Potterton
Marianne Potterton is a multidisciplinary artist based in Doolin, North Clare. She has a 1st Class Honours Degree in Fine…
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Yeni Artist
Yeni is frim Ukraine and currently lives in Ennis. Born and raised in a small town, from an early age,…
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Dr Martina Cleary
Dr. Martina Cleary is a multi-media visual artist, based in north Clare. She gained a BFA from the Crawford College…
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Mary Fahy
Originally from Galway, Mary Fahy is a visual artist and art teacher living in Ennistymon, North Clare. She studied fine…
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Tara Keegan
Tara Keegan is a Visual Artists & Participatory Artist based in Scarriff in the east of Co. Clare. She holds…
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Robert Downey
Robert Downey is a visual artist based in Co. Clare. He has a studio based practice, initially based at the…
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Aindrias Stack
Storyteller & fiddle player and cultural producer/programmer based in Clare. Artist in the community with Doolin folklore project. Munster champion…
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Ann McBride
Ann McBride is an artist, illustrator and ceramic designer. A native of Co Clare, she is based in Stonehall, Newmarket…
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Olga Kina
Olga Kina is a visual artist living in Shannon Country Clare and working with storytelling ideas through different materials and…
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Andrew Newland
Andrew Newland is an artist based at his studio in Sheeaun, Kilmaley, Co. Clare. He trained in the UK, initially…
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Anneteresa Quinn
I am a visual artist and qualified art teacher. My practice is evolving as a multidisciplinary one where I am…
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Eilish Tuite
Eilish Tuite is an artist working in Clare. She received her MA and BA from Limerick School of Art and…
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Sam Gleeson
Sam Gleeson is a bladesmith – using both metal and woodworking techniques, and often incorporating reclaimed materials and ocean plastics,…
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Katja Wittmer
Katja Wittmer is a visual artist originally from Germany who has been living in Ennis Co. Clare since 2007. She…
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Leigh O’Connell
I work with various mediums as I enjoy community work, so I am used to using whatever medium is needed…
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Janet Buell
I’m American, and have lived in Corofin, Clare since 2013. I paint almost exclusively with pastels. The medium caught my…
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David O’Rourke
David O Rourke is a native of Ennis, Co. Clare. He is qualified as a graduate of sculpture from the…
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West Murals
West Murals aka Marcus O’Connor has over 15 years experience painting murals rooted from street art and the grafitti world.…
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Tim Humphries
Tim Humphries is an artist, printmaker and photographer) based in Tulla, east Co. Clare. He has a Master of Fine Art…
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Siobain O’Brien Art
Siobain O’Brien is based in Kilfenora, Co. Clare. She holds a BA (Hons) in Ceramic Design from Staffordshire University (2003).…
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Barry Wrafter
Ennis based artist, Barry Wrafter, has been honing his skills a sculptor for many successful years from his studio in…
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Astrid Adler
Astrid Adler was born in Germany, lived 14 years in Holland and since 1999 in Monmore, Kilrush, Co.Clare. She has…
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Jole Bortoli
Jole Bortoli was born and grew up in Italy where she trained as a visual artist. She attended the Art…
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Dorothy Ledwith
Dorothy Ledwith is a visual artist living in Ennis, Co. Clare. The style of her artwork is representational with a palette of muted tones.
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Giselle Harvey
Giselle Harvey is an artist-maker, educator and researcher from Co. Clare who works in a range of art education, community,…
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Rena Casey Lewis
Rena is an artist/ photographer specialising mostly in watercolour based in Ennis, Co Clare. My art career began in 1994…
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Johnnie T. Tynan
Johnnie T. is an experienced creative professional based in Clare, close to the Galway border in sunny Crusheen. He has…
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Harry Guinane
Irish artist and Ennis native Harry Guinane is best known for his people and animal portraits & murals. On completing…
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Rita Linney
Rita Linney is a visual artist living and working in Cree, West Clare. She originates from Yorkshire, England. Her work…
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Karen J McDonnell
I grew up in Ennis and spent most of my working life in Dublin before returning to Co. Clare. I…
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Michelle Hickey
Michelle Hickey is a visual artist and maker and balances her art practice between her native Shannon and Doolin in…
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Mason Roche
Mason Roche graduated from the University of Limerick with a Bachelor’s Degree in Architecture. Using the medium of concrete he…
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Jennifer Donohue
Jennifer Donohue is a multimedia artist and writer living and working in Ennis, County Clare. Her work centres on expressing…
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Jane Seymour
In 1994 Jane moved to rural Co. Clare, Ireland, where she built a house and studio, and applied herself to…
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Pauline Dunleavy
An artist with over 23 years experience. I’m a member of Kilrush Art Group and every year we exhibit in…
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Gerry O’Mahony
Gerry O’Mahony is a graduate of LSAD Limerick. He has lived in Ireland, Israel and Malawi. He was a member…
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Ailish Malone
Ailish Malone is a self taught abstract landscape artist working in acrylics and mixed media. Ailish is inspired by the…
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Nicola Henley
Nicola Henley is a textile artist based near Tuamgraney, East Clare. Originally from Bristol in the UK, she moved to…
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Eva Reddy
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Zara Starr Madden
Drama, Mindfulness and Movement. A co-founder of The Unlimited Dream Machine Theatre Company, Zara is an actor, singer, dancer, filmmaker,…
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Éanna Byrt
Éanna Byrt, a Clare-based visual artist and educator, who holds a Bachelor of Fine Art in Printmaking from the Limerick…
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Matthew Mitchell
The work embodies the landscape through his unique process of collecting, processing and incorporating the local ochres as a ‘ground’.…
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Leigh O’Connell O’Connell
I enjoy community work, so I am used to using whatever medium is needed for the particular project at hand.…
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Fuchsia MacAree
Fuchsia MacAree is an artist and illustrator based in North Clare. Her work highlights quiet moments of contemplation, details in…
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Carmel T Madigan
Carmel T. Madigan has been developing her arts practice since 2000. In 2020, she developed a 20 year virtual retrospective…
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Antje McInerney
I am German born and moved to Ireland in 1990 and have lived in Ennis since then. I was married…
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Lisa Joyce
With a background in psychology and community development I have found drama practices to be a joyful way of creating…
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Joseph Kelly
Joseph Kelly is a visual artist based in Co Clare. His works are mainly landscape based. He creates works of…
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Ana Colomer
Ana Colomer is a visual artist based in Ennis Co. Clare. Ana works as a community artist and arts educator.…
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Josie O’Connor
Josie O’Connor has a background in Printmaking, having graduated from Limerick School of Art and Design in 2012. Since then…
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Jackie Mc Grath
Jackie McGrath is a socially engaged artist living in Kilkee on the west coast in Co Clare. She has a…
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Jane Murtagh
Jane Murtagh is an Irish Artist Metalsmith. A graduate in Fine Art from Dun Laoghaire School of Art and Design…
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Martina Hynan
Martina Hynan is a socially engaged artist, curator, birth activist and researcher based in Ennis, Co. Clare. For more than…
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Shona MacGillivray
Shona MacGillivray is a visual artist with over 20 years experience in arts and education and arts and disability Her…
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Lynn Kenny
A professional visual artist and facilitator for over 28 years, Lynn graduated from NCAD in Dublin with a Degree in…
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Dee Deegan
Dee Deegan is a Galway based multidisciplinary Artist Teacher and owner of Galway Art Academy. Dee holds a Master’s in…
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Breda Stack
My name is Breda Stack. I’m from Limerick and now live in Co. Clare. Although I hadn’t painted since Leaving…
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Negative Space Art Collective
Negative Space Collective is an artist led initiative based out of Ennis, County Clare. Negative Space is led by founding…
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Jessica Curtin
I am a drama facilitator. I work with youth theatres, and adults with intellectual disabilities. I also work as a…
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Bridget Henning
Bridget is an East Clare/Ireland based artist and has been drawing and painting since she was about 13 years old.…
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Sara Foust
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Olivia Henchy
Olivia Henchy is a visual mixed media artist from Co. Clare. Her work is at the intersection between landscape and…
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Isabelle Gaborit
I am a professional visual artist ( BA hons ) who was born in La Rochelle in the south west…
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Evelyn Sorohan
Acclaimed environmental artist recognised for creating visually stimulating, sustainably made, 3 D art works and collaborative art projects based on…
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Astrid Adler
Astrid Adler is based in Monmore, Kilrush, Co.Clare. She has a third level degree in Art and Philosophy from St.…
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Nathalie El Baba
Nathalie El Baba is a visual artist based in Scariff, East Clare, originally from Beirut, Lebanon. She is a graduate of GMIT, with a BA in Art and Design - Fine Art Painting.
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Grace O’Brien
From Limerick but living in Co. Clare, Grace rediscovered her passion for artistic expression in 2021 and delved into learning…
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Ursula Meany
I’m a multidisciplinary artist based in North Clare. I make cyanotypes, inspired by nature or abstract, sometimes from photographs with…
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Deirdre Grimes
My work is inspired by my home county of Clare, the countryside, the stone my home is made of, the…
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Brenda Kennelly
Brenda is a self taught mosaic artist, using earthy and natural found materials, shaping and moulding them into an abstract…
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Aine Rynne
Aine Rynne is an artist based in Miltown Malbay, West Clare. She has a BA in Film and TV from…
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Joanna Gammell
Joanna Gammell is a visual artist who predominantly paints in oils. Joanna is based in Sixmilebridge in Co. Clare. She…
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Frances Bermingham
Artist Biography Frances is a researcher, field and shoreworker who works in marine, heritage research and community projects. She completed…
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Caitríona Sheedy
Caitríona Sheedy is a multimedia artist, creating paintings, songs, sculpture & writing on the subject of humanity, ecology & evolution.…
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Rachel Macmanus
Rachel Macmanus is a visual artist based in Co Clare, Ireland. Her practice has two intertwined areas of focus-drawing and…
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Sorrell Reilly
I am an illustrator, printmaker and digital artist working in my Corofin, County Clare. I make print artwork of the…
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Sophie Hutchinson
Sophie is a contemporary dance artist, performer and facilitator based in East Clare. She holds a BPA(Hons) from the Northern…
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Ronan McMahon
Self taught artist and photographer living in Ennis, Co. Clare.
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Lis De Fran
Lis De Fran is an Italian Artist based in Ennis Co. Clare. She has a Degree in Business Studies, a…
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Sandra Juanes
Born in Valencia, Spain, Sandra moved to Doolin in Co. Clare in 2015 after years visiting as a tourist. She…
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Michael Lewisohn
I am a visual artist living and working in Co.Clare. It is a joy to paint in a place so…
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Mel White Maximillist Art
Mel White (1978) is based in Mountshannon, Co.Clare. She is a self taught artist. She takes most of her inspiration…
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Bríd Kivneen
Bríd is based in North Clare and has worked with several community music and community art projects with intercultural, women’s…
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Sarah Fuller
Sarah is a visual artist and puppeteer and founding member of Dog and String Theatre. She holds a BA Hons…
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Michael Mc Aloran
Michael Mc Aloran was born in Belfast, (1976). He grew up in Shannon, Co. Clare, where he is presently based.…
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Kathryna Cuschieri
I am a multi disciplinary artist living and working in Co. Clare. My primary medium is glass. I am inspired…
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Christopher Banahan
I am a portrait painter, who uses multi media techniques; gold leaf, fresco, acrylic, oil, watercolour painting, cracking varnish effect,…
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Fiona O Dwyer
Fiona O’Dwyer is a visual artist based in Ennistymon in North Clare. She holds an Honors Degree in Fine Art/Sculpture…
Matching Artworks
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Horse 1 and 2
It is a quirky and hidden spot; once we’d heard the history we decided to paint the doors with horses.
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The Musicians Rest by David O’Rourke
The Musicians Rest comprises of a series of five musicians on concrete plinths with exterior paint. From left to right…
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Mallard and Heron by Negative Space Art Collective
This electrical pumphouse box is located in the corner of the Island Car Park right next to the River Fergus…
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Taming the Fox by Kathryna Cuschieri
The painting depicts a man opening a box with a fox inside. It makes reference to Graham Hull, an archeologist,…
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Firefighter by Negative Space Art Collective
The image of the Firefighter is designed to be gender free, to represent both genders who work in fire services.…
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Paddy the pigeon
Paddy the pigeon, looking for crumbs on Lifford Road, Ennis.
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Harriet Smithson Berlioz by Helen Lowe
Harriet Smithson Berlioz 1800 – 1854 Harriet Smithson was born in Ennis in 1800. Her father managed a theatre in…
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The Tree of Life
A symbolic tree with various species of animals and insects in Ireland classed as being under threat of extinction.
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Ínis / Irelantis by David O’Rourke
Ínis / Irelantis is a play on the name Ínis, meaning island, combined with the myth of Atlantis. Photographs by…
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Boíreann by Ciara Malone
You are now standing in upper O’Connell Street at “Boíreann” by artist Ciara Malone. Boíreann, meaning ‘rocky place’ ,is situated only…
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Art is Hope by Negative Space Art Collective
Art is Hope was directly commissioned by Clare County Council in 2023. During Covid, glór created a huge motif in…
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Don’t Tell Me To Smile + Not As Tough As I Act by Negative Space Art Collective
This piece is for the teenage girls who are inheriting a broken planet and the teenage boys who are trying to fit in and get by.
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The O’Gorman Mahon by Joe Kelly
The O’Gorman Mahon Duellist, Politician, Soldier and Adventurer James Patrick Mahon was born in Mill Street (now number 40 Parnell…
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Singing in the Rain by Jason Pilkington
“ My daughters ( now in their 20s ) as children loved that musical (Singing in the Rain) and watched…
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Warriors by Wil Gilchrist
This sculpture-like creation by Will Gilchrist uses architectural elements that are part of the museum building to create three characters…
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An Garda
This traffic electrical box is situated at the edge of the River Fergus. We appreciate the Gardaí and the work they do, so we painted a tribute.
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Tom Steele by Negative Space Art Collective
A reference to Tom Steele, (1788–1848), an engineer and political activist from Ennis. The image is wrapped around the pumphouse…
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Maid of Erin
A contemporary depiction of the Maid of Erin.
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