Bio
Ciara Rodgers is a visual artist based in Cork City, Ireland. She finished her MFA at CIT Crawford College of Art and Design in 2018 and was awarded the 2019 graduate residency award for one year at MA:AP postgraduate studios.
Gathering research from archival material, text, mythology and personal experience through road -trip photography of both the rural and urban landscape. Her work often looks at architecture as a starting point, interested in our varied internal responses to types of external space and structure, often based on personal experience. With drawing as her primary medium, photography, installation and performance are also prominent in her practice.
Notable recent exhibitions include ArtSevilla 2019|Bauhaus: 100 years since the total revolution of a language, group exhibition, Casa de la Provincia, Sevilla, Andalusia, Spain 28/11/19 – 12/1/2020 and Monuments of Abandoned Futures, solo exhibition, LHQ Gallery, Carrigrohane Road, Co. Cork 19/9/19 – 10/10/19.
Ciara currently develops projects with Age and Opportunity, The Glucksman Gallery, UCC and Cork County Council and Library Services to enhance arts experiences in the wider public sphere, reaching groups with otherwise limited access to the arts.
My love for my materials isn’t just about what they produce for me visually. My physical interactions with them are also incredibly sensory.
The scratch, grind and resistance of charcoal sticks on the page. There is a process and struggle to the rubbing, blending, etching, erasing, fine detailing in order to create a satisfactory image.
The clunky, loud flash, shutter and print of the Polaroid camera which produces an instantaneous physical artwork on my site visits feels like magic every time.
Awards and Residencies
Shortlisted for selection for The Derwent Art Prize 2020
Artist in Residence in a Care Setting, Age and Opportunity Ireland, October – December 2019.
MA:AP Artist in Residence, CIT, Crawford College of Art and Design, January- December 2019
CIT Arts Office Purchase Prize, Memories of a Nervous System, December 2018.
Curatorship:Cork Centre for Architectural Education: Artists in Residence and MArch Endless [C]ity/Peripheral [C]ity Athens. Nano Nagle Centre, Cork City, May 2018
Eli Lilly Degree Show Purchase Prize, Art Committee, Eli Lilly, Kinsale, Cork, June 2017
E.U. Erasmus Programme, University of the Arts, Poznan, Poland, 2016
Exhibitions
JUNCTURES: memory and the built environment, a drawing project, Area Services Centre, Station Road, Castleisland, Co. Kerry, 23.1.20 – 13.2.20
Lavit Gallery Members Exhibition, Wandesford Quay, Cork, 20/2/2020- 7/3/2020
ArtSevilla 2019|Bauhaus: 100 years since the total revolution of a language, Casa de la Provincia, Sevilla, Andalusia, Spain 28/11/19 – 12/1/2020
Monuments of Abandoned Futures, solo exhibition, LHQ Gallery, Carrigrohane Road, Co. Cork 19/9/19 – 10/10/19
Art in the Courtyard, pop-up exhibition, Imagine Arts Festival, Garter Lane Arts Centre, Co. Waterford, October 2019
Alternative Views, Blue House Gallery, Schull, May 2019
Members Exhibition, The Lavit Gallery, Wandesford Quay, Cork February 2019
Memories of a Nervous System, CIT Crawford College of Art and Design master’s degree Show, No. 46 Grand Parade, Cork, December 2018
The Present, Past, Wandesford Quay Gallery, Cork, October 2017
6Marks: CCAD Graduate Artists, Wandesford Quay Gallery, Cork, 2017
Beyond Dialogue, CIT Crawford College of Art and Design Degree Show, Sharman Crawford Street, Cork, June 2017
Murmuration, Group exhibition, The Village Hall, Cork, May 2016
UAP Students Printmaking Exhibition, University of The Arts, Poznan, Poland, May 2016
Viewpoints, St Johns Central College, Cork, May 2013
Education
M.A.: Art & Process, CIT Crawford College of Art and Design, Cork, 2018.
B.A. (Hons) Fine Art, CIT Crawford College of Art and Design, Cork, Ireland, 2017.
B.A. in Montessori Education, St Nicholas Montessori College, Dublin, Ireland, 2005
