Context
Community arts
Matching Programme Areas
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Programme Area
Creative Places Shannon
We will identify locations in Clare for a Creative Placemaking initiative, working with local communities to promote creativity and creative approaches to community development.
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Programme Area
Arts in Education
An annual scheme in which primary schools can avail of an arts day or a longer term project with an artist.
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Programme Area
Arts in a rural context
We work with numerous local, national and international artists and organisations exploring arts in a rural context.
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Programme Area
Creative Ireland Programme in Clare
Clare Arts Office runs a number of projects as part of the Creative Ireland programme in County Clare.
Matching People
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- Producer
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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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- Actress
- Producer
- Storyteller
- Voiceover Artist
Eilís Haden-Storrie
Eilís Haden-Storrie worked for 20 years in both the peace and broadcasting sector and has put together numerous European-Union-funded films, publications, educational packages and peace programmes for museums and councils across Northern Ireland.
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- Artist
- Curator
Sara Foust
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- Dancer
Maria Svensson
Maria Svensson is a dance artist based in Bodyke, East Clare, originally from Sweden. She holds a BA in Dance…
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- Curator
- Musician
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Kate Daly
Kate is a singer and community group singing facilitator from Doolin, Co. Clare. In 2010, she completed her B.A in…
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- Visual artist
Ana Colomer
Ana Colomer is a visual artist and arts educator based in Ennis, Co. Clare. She has a bachelor’s degree in…
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- Artist
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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- Curator
- Visual artist
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…
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- Producer
- Writer
Ruairí McKiernan
Ruairí McKiernan is a Lahinch-based writer, community facilitator, creative producer, and host of the Creative Souls of Clare podcast. His…
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- Visual artist
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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- Artist
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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- Artist
- Curator
- Musician
- Poet
- Producer
- Storyteller
- Voiceover Artist
- Writer
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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- Actress
- Drama Facilitator
- Producer
- Storyteller
- Writer
Dermott Petty
Dermott Petty MA is a filmmaker and writer living in Doolin, in North Clare.
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- Visual artist
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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- Artist
- Visual artist
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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- Curator
- Drama Facilitator
- Musician
- Photographer
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- Screenwriter
- Singer
- Storyteller
- Visual artist
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Ciara Malone
From a very early age, I knew I was different.I couldn’t read until I was twelve years of age due…
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- Visual artist
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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- Musician
Fiona Linnane
Fiona Linnane is a composer, originally from Cratloe, specialising in opera and vocal music. She holds a MA in Music…
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- Curator
- Musician
- Producer
Cli Donnellan
Cliodhna (Cli) Donnellan, native of Mountshannon, Co. Clare is an Irish traditional musician, facilitator, producer and curator. She founded and coordinated…
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- Dancer
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- Visual artist
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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- Curator
- Visual artist
- Writer
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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- Visual artist
- Writer
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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- Artist
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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- Artist
- Curator
- Visual artist
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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- Performance Artist
- Visual artist
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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- Artist
- Visual artist
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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- Curator
- Musician
- Producer
Charles Monod
Coming from Switzerland originally, Charles Monod moved to Doolin, Co. Clare in 2006 to pursue his passion for Irish Traditional…
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- Artist
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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- Artist
- Producer
Diarmuid de Faoite
Diarmuid de Faoite is a dramatist from Ennis, County Clare. He holds a B.Sc. in Botany and a H.Dip in…
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- Curator
- Photographer
- Poet
- Visual artist
- Writer
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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- Actress
- Dancer
- Storyteller
- Voiceover Artist
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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- Visual artist
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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- Visual artist
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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- Writer
Sarah Moore Fitzgerald
Sarah Moore Fitzgerald is an award-winning teacher, researcher and novelist based at the University of Limerick where she’s part of…
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- Visual artist
Sioban Fawl
Sioban Fawl is based near Ennis, Co Clare. She holds a Certificate in arts and disability from the Crawford, Cork,…
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- Artist
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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- Dancer
- Drama Facilitator
- Performance Artist
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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- Visual artist
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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- Artist
- Photographer
- Screenwriter
- Visual artist
- Writer
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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- Artist
John Lee
Art has always been with me however it was not until 2008 some sixteen years after finishing secondary school that…
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- Drama Facilitator
- Writer
Helen Blackhurst
Helen is a writer, drama facilitator and drama therapist based in Mountshannon, Co. Clare. Her fiction to date explores displacement…
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- Musician
- Producer
- Storyteller
- Visual artist
Amanda Jane Shannon
Amanda has been singing bilingually since primary school, snatching some prestigious awards at Slógadh as part of her school choir,…
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- Actress
- Drama Facilitator
- Storyteller
- Voiceover Artist
- Writer
Jacinta Sheerin
Jacinta Sheerin graduated from the University of Ulster in Coleraine with a BA Honours Degree in Theatre in 2001 and…
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- Artist
- Curator
Christina G Watkins
Painter artist, qualified in Fine Art Painting Works in photography, film, digital, fine art photography, graphic design, design, printmaking, ceramics,…
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- Curator
- Visual artist
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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- Visual artist
Negative Space Art Collective
Negative Space Collective is a new artist led initiative based out of Ennis, County Clare. Negative Space is led by…
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- Visual artist
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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- Visual artist
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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- Artist
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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- Writer
Tracy Fahey
Dr. Tracy Fahey is an author based in Sixmilebridge, Co. Clare. Her fiction is primarily concerned with folklore, uncanny, liminal…
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- Artist
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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- Puppeteer
- Storyteller
- Visual artist
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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- Visual artist
Dopeism
1980s graffiti artist in London. In early 2000 I started messing around with street art and found it a very…
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- Voiceover Artist
- Writer
Madge O’Callaghan
Madge O’Callaghan is an author and poet based in Kilbane, East Clare, in the shadow of Sliabh Bernagh. She facilitates…
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- Artist
- Photographer
- Poet
- Visual artist
- Writer
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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- Artist
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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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- Dancer
Carmel McKenna
Carmel McKenna has been involved in Irish dance for fifty-five years as a dancer, coach, educator, historian, memorabilia collector and…
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- Artist
Shona MacGillivray
Shona MacGillivray is a visual artist based in Gort Co.Galway who has worked extensively with Clare Arts Office
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- Visual artist
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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- Visual artist
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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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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- Visual artist
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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- Visual artist
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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- Performance Artist
- Visual artist
Giselle Harvey
Giselle Harvey is an artist-maker, educator and researcher from Co. Clare who works in a range of art education, community,…