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Public Art Programme

Clare County Council is the lead commissioning agent for Public Art in Clare. We operate under the National Per Cent…

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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…
- 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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- Musician
- Photographer
- Visual artist
Barry Mullins

I am a multi-disciplinary artist with a background in printmaking. I graduated from Limerick School of Art and Design in…
- Artist
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- 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…
- Poet
- Voiceover Artist
- Writer
Karen J McDonnell

I grew up in Ennis and spent most of my working life in Dublin before returning to Co. Clare. I…
- Artist
- Curator
Sara Foust

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

Rachel Maloney is an artist from Scarriff, Co. Clare, graduated from the Limerick School of Art and Design, having done…
- Curator
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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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Theo Hynan-Ratcliffe

Theo is a sculptor, writer and project coordinator from/living in Co. Clare. She received a first class BA Honours in…
- 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
Olivia Henchy

Olivia Henchy is a visual mixed media artist from Co. Clare. Her work is at the intersection between landscape and…
- Visual artist
Jackie Askew

Jackie Askew is a visual artist based in Ennistymon Co. Clare since 1998. She makes abstract paintings, drawings and collages…
- Producer
- Visual artist
Caitríona Sheedy

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

1 Project
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- Storyteller
- Visual artist
Noelle Foden-Vencil

My artistic practice investigates the interplay between humanity, materiality, and the environment, where I challenge Westernized concepts of nature and…
- Curator
- Visual artist
Éanna Byrt

Éanna Byrt, a Clare-based visual artist and educator, who holds a Bachelor of Fine Art in Printmaking from the Limerick…
- Artist
- Visual artist
Siobán Fawl

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

Visual artist who works mainly in oils and acrylic.
- Visual artist
Gene Clohessy

Gene Clohessy is a visual artist from Limerick now living in Doonbeg, Co. Clare. Gene has had an interest and…
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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…

4 Projects
- Visual artist
Shona MacGillivray

Shona MacGillivray is a visual artist with over 20 years experience in arts and education and arts and disability Her…
- Musician
Fiona Linnane

Fiona Linnane is a composer, originally from Cratloe, specialising in opera and vocal music. She holds a MA in Music…
- Screenwriter
- Writer
Aisling Corristine

With screenwriting training from a scholarship to UCLA, her work has been selected and showcased at the BAFTA Rocliffe New…
- 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
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- 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…
- 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…
- Poet
- Visual artist
- Writer
Frank Golden

Frank Golden is a poet, novelist, and visual artist. He has published six books of poetry and two novels. His…
- Performance Artist
- Storyteller
- Visual artist
Tina O’ Connell

I am not not a blow in. I hail from the O’ Connell Clan, harried to hell or to Connaught,…
- 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…
- Actor
- Musician
- Producer
- Singer
- Voiceover Artist
- Writer
Emer O’Flaherty

Emer is a bilingual (Gaeilge/English) singer, songwriter, composer and musician (piano, organ, flute, whistles) based in Ennis, Co. Clare. She…
- 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…
- 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.
- Visual artist
Jane Seymour

In 1994 Jane moved to rural Co. Clare, Ireland, where she built a house and studio, and applied herself to…
- Visual artist
Samuel Walsh

Although born in Wimbledon, London in 1951 of Irish parents: his mother from Limerick, his father from Ennis; Walsh spent…
- 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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- Producer
Aisling Lyons

Described as ‘..the finest young Irish harpist at work today..’ (Songlines Magazine) & ‘one of traditional music’s finest musicians’ (Hot…
- 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.
- Artist
- Curator
- Producer
Ceara Conway

Ceara Conway is the curator and programme coordinator for the Clare Arts Office Artists in Schools Programme and the Embrace…
- 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…

1 Project
- Artist
Tara Keegan

Tara Keegan is a Visual Artists & Participatory Artist based in Scarriff in the east of Co. Clare. She holds…
- Curator
- Musician
- Producer
- Singer
Nuala Kennedy

“Nuala Kennedy is a critically acclaimed and award-winning touring and recording artist. She sings, plays flute and whistle and writes…

1 Project
- Visual artist
Mary Fahy

Originally from Galway, Mary Fahy is a visual artist and art teacher living in Ennistymon, North Clare. She studied fine…
- Visual artist
Edel Hogan

A practicing visual artist from the Tulla Stables Studios and a lecturer in LSAD’s Fine Art and Education Dept, Hogan’s…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…

1 Project
- Musician
Neil Fitzgibbon

Neil Fitzgibbon is a musician, composer and educator that has toured and shared stages with many musicians at home in…
- Musician
- Producer
Chris Wood

Chris Wood is an artist based in Ennistymon, Co. Clare. He works primarily with music and composes mainly for guitar.…
- Poet
- Visual artist
Christina Bennett

I am a multi-disciplinary artist, working in painting, making, film, writing and craft. Much of my work expresses the stories…
- Visual artist
Ann McBride

Ann McBride is an artist, illustrator and ceramic designer. A native of Co Clare, she is based in Stonehall, Newmarket…
- Writer
Helen Blackhurst

Helen is a writer, Playback Theatre actor and drama therapist based in Mountshannon, Co. Clare. Her fiction to date explores…
- Photographer
- Visual artist
Robert Downey

Robert Downey is a visual artist based in Co. Clare. He has a studio based practice, initially based at the…

1 Project
- Poet
- Writer
Grace Wells

Grace Wells is an eco-poet and environmental writer. She is based in Ennistymon, in West Clare. Her work is primarily…

2 Projects
- Poet
- Singer
- Writer
Deirdre Devally

Deirdre Devally writes prose, poetry and songs. She was short-listed in The Fish Poetry Prize, longlisted in The Fish Short…
- 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
- Writer
Tracy Fahey

Tracy Fahey is an award-winning Irish author of six books. She has been a British Fantasy Award finalist in 2017,…
- 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…
- Musician
Kevin Shortall

Kevin Shortall is a multi-instrumentalist and composer, recognised for his work in jazz, Brazilian music, and Irish traditional music. He…
- 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,…

1 Project
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- Voiceover Artist
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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…
- Curator
- Visual artist
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…

1 Project
- Photographer
Mary Musgrove

I am a passionate professional photographer and therapeutic photography/Mindful photography facilitator. I provide an enjoyable environment allowing a beginners mind…
- Musician
- Performance Artist
- Photographer
- Poet
- Producer
- Singer
- Visual artist
Avia Gurman Murphy

Avia Gurman Murphy is an interdisciplinary performance and visual artist living in East Clare. She is a singer, director, producer,…

1 Project
- 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
- Drama Facilitator
Lisa Joyce

With a background in psychology and community development I have found drama practices to be a joyful way of creating…
- 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,…
- Artist
- Curator
- Musician
- Poet
- Producer
- Singer
- Visual artist
- Writer
Amanda Jane Shannon

Amanda’s love of song and music and the written word is a long sublime love affair. Singing bilingually since primary…
- Dancer
- Performance Artist
Ashley O’Toole O’Toole

Ashley is an Irish dance artist and choreographer based in Ennis, Co. Clare. She holds an MA in Traditional Irish…
- 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
- Curator
- Musician
- Producer
- Visual artist
Simon O’Reilly

Simon O’Reilly is a composer, producer, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, visual artist and cofounder of Hedge School Festival. His is based near…
- Poet
- Storyteller
- Voiceover Artist
- Writer
Ruth Marshall

I am a storyteller, poet and crafter, and I can offer your school or group storytelling, story-making, poetry-writing and nature…
- 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…
- 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
- 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,…
- Dancer
- Drama Facilitator
Fatima Lucia

Fatima Lucia was the first Flamenco dancer to teach in Ireland. She trained in Spain with some of the great…
- 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…
- 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…
- Visual artist
Adil Vezir

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