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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.

6 Projects
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Arts in a rural context

We work with numerous local, national and international artists and organisations exploring arts in a rural context.

15 Projects
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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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Creative Ireland Programme in Clare

Clare Arts Office runs a number of projects as part of the Creative Ireland programme in County Clare.

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Maria Svensson

Maria Svensson is a dance artist based in Bodyke, East Clare, originally from Sweden. She holds a BA in Dance…

1 Project
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Ceri Garfield

Ceri Garfield is an artist and writer from Mullagh, Co. Clare. She has a BA (First Class Honours) in Fine…
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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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Clara Planelles

CLARA is a creative director with a background in Film, Theatre, and Photography. Passionate about portraying women as powerful, daring,…

1 Project
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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,…

1 Project
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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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Jyoshna La Trobe

Jyoshna La Trobe is a NZ singer/songwriter, ethnomusicologist and co-parent. Jyoshna’s music communicates to others her life’s journey, written from…
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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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Neil Fitzgibbon

Neil Fitzgibbon is a musician, composer and educator that has toured and shared stages with many musicians at home in…
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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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Caitríona Sheedy

Caitríona Sheedy is a multimedia artist, creating paintings, songs, sculpture & writing on the subject of humanity, ecology & evolution.…

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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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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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Balor Otherworld

Balor is a storyteller, combining Ireland’s myths and legends. He performs in schools, visitor centres, online and offers tours around…
- Visual artist
Sarah Matilda Krulder

My practice is research based, site-specific and aims to develop relationships between people and their human/ non-human environments. I use…
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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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Siobán Fawl

Mosaic artist Siobán Fawl has been facilitating Art & Craft Workshops in County Clare for over 15 years. She specialises…
- Visual artist
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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…

1 Project
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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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Peneleapaí

Peneleapaí is an singer songwriter, therapist, and educator. She is based in East Clare since 2002, and lived in west…
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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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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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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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Amanda Jane Shannon

Singing bilingually since primary school, snatching some prestigious awards at Slógadh as part of her school choir, Amanda’s love of…
- 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…
- Visual artist
Helen Seago

Helen Seago is a portrait artist based in Co. Clare, specializing in airbrush & Acrylic art. Helen studied at Slade…
- Curator
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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…
- Actor
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Vanessa Earl

Actor. Theatre Maker. Behaviour Coach Vanessa trained at Parisian theatre school L’Ecole Jacques Lecoq after completing a degree in Drama…
- 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…
- Artist
Michelle Fallon

Originally from Ennis, visual artist Michelle Fallon Toft is currently based in Corofin, Co. Clare. Her love of painting, drawing…

1 Project
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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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- Screenwriter
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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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Rosaleen Marion

Artist working in multiple mediums including painting, sculpture, film, and music. Studio and residence in Fanore.
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Kate Daly

Kate is a singer and community group singing facilitator from Doolin, Co. Clare. She offers workshops with the aim of…

2 Projects
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Clíodhna Donnellan

Clíodhna (Cli) Donnellan, native of Mountshannon, Co. Clare is an Irish traditional musician, creative arts facilitator, producer and broadcaster. Clíodhna released…

1 Project
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Dermott Petty

Dermott Petty MA is a filmmaker and writer living in Doolin, in North Clare. His recent work the play ‘2 Days…
- Artist
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Hanna Kovalova

I am from Ukraine, I have been living in County Clare for two years. I am a freelance artist and…
- Visual artist
Rachel Maloney

Rachel Maloney is an artist from Scarriff, Co. Clare, graduated from the Limerick School of Art and Design, having done…
- Storyteller
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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.…
- Visual artist
Sandra Juanes

Born in Valencia, Spain, Sandra moved to Doolin in Co. Clare in 2015 after years visiting as a tourist. She…
- Visual artist
Kathryna Cuschieri

I am a multi disciplinary artist living and working in Co. Clare. My primary medium is glass. I am inspired…

1 Project
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- Singer
Kathleen Malone

Kathleen Malone, residing in Doolin, Co. Clare, is the daughter of the late tenor Jerry Lynch and has deep roots…
- Musician
- Singer
Joan McNamara

Joan is a passionate and creative multi-instrumentalist with classical and traditional music training. She is an accomplished pianist, both directing…
- Artist
- Producer
Brian Fleming

Brian Fleming is a percussionist, cultural producer and theatre maker. A refugee from Dublin, he quarantined for years in Bell…
- 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…
- Artist
- Curator
- Visual artist
Martina Hynan

I am a multimedia artist researcher with more than twenty years’ experience working as a socially engaged artist and community…
- Visual artist
Frances Bermingham

Artist Biography Frances is a researcher, field and shoreworker who works in marine, heritage research and community projects. She completed…
- Visual artist
Leigh O’Connell

I enjoy community work, so I am used to using whatever medium is needed for the particular project at hand.…

2 Projects
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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…
- Curator
- Photographer
- Visual artist
David O Rourke

David studied sculpture at N.C.A.D. and Jungian psychology with art therapy and more recently a level 9 in Digital Entrepreneurship.…

2 Projects
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Anna Podlewska

Anna Podlewska is a painter, print maker and textile designer. Originally from London, UK, she trained in textiles at The…

1 Project
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- Musician
- Performance Artist
- Poet
- Producer
- Writer
Katie Cogan

My name is Katie Cogan and I am an artist and astrologer living in North Clare since 2021. I am…
- Curator
- Visual artist
Andrew Craig Waterhouse

Andrew C. Waterhouse (b.1971) is an experienced visual artist and curator at The Burren Art Gallery in Tubber. He has…
- Visual artist
Éilís Murphy

I am a visual artist who draws inspiration from forgotten or lost knowledge; interspecies communication and language; hidden narratives and…
- Visual artist
Jane Seymour

In 1994 Jane moved to rural Co. Clare, Ireland, where she built a house and studio, and applied herself to…
- 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…
- 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…
- Actor
- Musician
- Poet
- Producer
- Storyteller
- Voiceover Artist
- Writer
Jeremy Strozer

A neurodiverse lateral thinking Fulbright scholar, OCTOVIST (Open-minded, Creative Thinker, Optimistic, Versatile, Intelligent, Supportive, Talented), improvisational actor, coach, and teacher…
- Visual artist
Dopeism

1980s graffiti artist in London. In early 2000 I started messing around with street art and found it a very…
- Artist
- Performance Artist
- Visual artist
Rachel Macmanus

Rachel Macmanus is a visual artist based in Co Clare, Ireland. Her practice focuses on drawing, painting and performance art.…

1 Project
- Visual artist
Evelyn Sorohan

Artist Statement ‍I am an environmental artist dedicated to reimagining our relationship with the natural world in the context of…

2 Projects
- Visual artist
Adil Vezir

I am an Azerbaijani-American artist & bronze sculptor living & creating in Ireland. While living in the United States for…
- Artist
- Producer
Astrid Adler

Astrid Adler was born in Germany, lived 14 years in Holland and since 1999 in Monmore, Kilrush, Co.Clare. She has…
- Person
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.
- Dancer
- Performance Artist
- Visual artist
Sophie Hutchinson

Sophie is a dance artist, performer and facilitator based in East Clare. She holds a BPA (Hons) from the Northern…
- Artist
Andrew Newland

Andrew Newland is an artist based at his studio in Sheeaun, Kilmaley, Co. Clare. He trained in the UK, initially…
- Visual artist
Negative Space Art Collective

Negative Space Collective is an artist led initiative based out of Ennis, County Clare. Negative Space is led by founding…

1 Project
- Visual artist
Aideen Sweeney

Aideen Sweeney is a Dublin born Intuitive Artist, Creative Circle Facilitator & Intentional Creativity Teacher with a background in Art…
- 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…
- Actress
- Drama Facilitator
- Musician
- Performance Artist
- Visual artist
Astrid Adler

Astrid Adler is based in Monmore, Kilrush, Co.Clare. She has a third level degree in Art and Philosophy from St.…
- Visual artist
Maia Shelby Hay

I am a multimedia sculptor and emerging public artist creating a sustainable practice from recycled and found materials. My artwork…
- Writer
Helen Blackhurst

Helen is a writer, Playback Theatre actor and drama therapist based in Mountshannon, Co. Clare. Her fiction to date explores…
- Musician
Fiona Linnane

Fiona Linnane is a composer, originally from Cratloe, specialising in opera and vocal music. She holds a MA in Music…
- Artist
- Visual artist
Tara Keegan

Tara Keegan is a visual and participatory artist based in Scarriff in the east of Co. Clare. She holds a…
- 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…
- Photographer
Mary Musgrove

I am a passionate professional photographer and therapeutic photography/Mindful photography facilitator. I provide an enjoyable environment allowing a beginners mind…
- Visual artist
Mary Fahy

Originally from Galway, Mary Fahy is a visual artist and art teacher living in Ennistymon, North Clare. She studied fine…
- 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…
- Actress
- Drama Facilitator
- Producer
Theresa Leahy

Throughout my career, I have prioritised incorporating participants’ voices into the creative process. While teaching migration as part of a…
- Artist
- Poet
- Storyteller
- Visual artist
- Writer
Ailbhe Wheatley

My name is Ailbhe Wheatley and I am a writer and artist based in the wilds of East Clare, Ireland.…
- Actress
- Curator
- Drama Facilitator
- Musician
- Performance Artist
- Photographer
- Producer
- Screenwriter
- Singer
- Storyteller
- Visual artist
- Voiceover Artist
- Writer
Ciara Malone

Ciara is a a multi-disciplinary artist for over 25 years and has had numerous exhibitions nationally and internationally. Her work…

4 Projects
- 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.
- 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,…
- Visual artist
Sheelagh Keane

My art career has been intertwined for many years with a career in social work. I grew up in West…
- Artist
Tara Keegan

Tara Keegan is a Visual Artists & Participatory Artist based in Scarriff in the east of Co. Clare. She holds…
- Visual artist
Gráinne Kelleher

Gráinne Kelleher is a self-taught artist living in Lahinch, Co Clare. Commissioned artwork holds a special place in her heart,…

1 Project
- Artist
Sam Gleeson

Sam Gleeson is a bladesmith – using both metal and woodworking techniques, and often incorporating reclaimed materials and ocean plastics,…
- 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…
- Poet
- Visual artist
- Writer
Qwynn

Qwynn is a native of County Clare who lives in the heart of Clare. From the moment she started reading…
- Artist
- Curator
Sara Foust

Sara Foust is a visual artist and curator based in Ennistymon, Co Clare. Sara was born in USA and spent…
- 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…

2 Projects
- Artist
- Puppeteer
- Visual artist
Ana Colomer

Ana Colomer is a visual artist based in Ennis Co. Clare. Ana works as a community artist and arts educator.…

3 Projects
- Visual artist
Larisa K Jourdan

Larisa K. Jourdan (formerly known as Larisa K. Bevillard) is a professional visual artist and alumni of the Art Institute…
- 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…
- Producer
- Visual artist
John Lillis

John Lillis is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Liscannor in Co.Clare. He works primarily in the areas of recording, music,…
- Dancer
Carmel McKenna

Carmel McKenna has been involved in Irish dance for fifty-five years as a dancer, coach, educator, historian, memorabilia collector and…
- 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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