Context
Young people
Matching Programme Areas
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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
Children and Young People
Clare enjoys a greater percentage of young people than regional or national averages. Immersing people in culture from an early…
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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.
Matching People
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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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- 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.
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- Puppeteer
- Storyteller
Thomas Baker – Your Man’s Puppets
Thomas Baker is an artist probably best known for his work with puppetry, storytelling and improvisation. Originally from Quin, he…
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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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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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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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- 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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- 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…
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- Actress
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- 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
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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- 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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- Screenwriter
- Singer
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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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
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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- Artist
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John Lillis
John Lillis is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Ennistymon in Co.Clare. He works primarily in the areas of recording, music,…
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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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- 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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- Musician
- Photographer
- Poet
- Visual artist
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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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- Curator
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Emma Sams
Emma is an artist based in rural East Clare. She works primarily with young people in filmmaking and more recently…
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- Artist
- Musician
Michael Kreft
Michael Kreft is a musician, theatre performer, writer and composer. He grew up in an family of thuringian artists in…
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- Actress
- Drama Facilitator
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- Storyteller
- Writer
Dermott Petty
Dermott Petty MA is a filmmaker and writer living in Doolin, in North Clare.
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- Artist
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Brian Fleming
Brian Fleming is a percussionist, cultural producer and theatre maker. A refugee from Dublin, he quarantined for years in Bell…
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- Artist
- Photographer
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- Visual artist
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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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- Poet
- Voiceover Artist
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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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- Drama Facilitator
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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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- Curator
- Photographer
- Poet
- Visual artist
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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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- Producer
- Visual artist
Caitríona Sheedy
Caitríona Sheedy is a multimedia artist, creating paintings, songs, sculpture & writing on the subject of humanity, ecology & evolution.…
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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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- 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
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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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- 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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- Musician
Sean Shannon
Sean Shannon is a pianist and piano teacher based between Dublin and his native Ennis. He is currently completing a…
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- Dancer
- Musician
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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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- Actress
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- 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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- 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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- 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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- 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…