Clare Arts

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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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  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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  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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  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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  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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  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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  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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  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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  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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  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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  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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  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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  Sophie Hutchinson

  Sophie is a contemporary dance artist and facilitator newly based in East Clare, orginally from Waterford City. A graduate of…

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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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  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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  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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  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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  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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  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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  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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  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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  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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  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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  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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  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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  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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  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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  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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  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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  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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  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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  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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  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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  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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  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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  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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  Dermott Petty

  Dermott Petty MA is a filmmaker and writer living in Doolin, in North Clare.

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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,…