SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

Solo

  • a city of beautiful nonsense, Studio 12, Wandesford Quay, Cork, 14th October- 26th November 2022
  • Monuments II (memory traces), Garter Lane Arts Centre, Waterford. August- October 2020.
  • Monuments of Abandoned Futures, LHQ Gallery, Carrigrohane Road, Co. Cork 19/9/19 – 10/10/19

Duo

  • OBSERVATORIO INTERIOR, Alba Cortès & Ciara Rodgers, MTU Gallery at 46 Grand Parade, 3rd – 19th January 2023
  • “I half remember that…”, MSA gallery space, Macroom School of Art, Co. Cork, 15-9-21 – 17-9-2021, Brían Crotty and Ciara Rodgers

Group

  • Drawing Connections, The Lord Mayor’s Pavilion, Fitzgeralds Park, Cork, October 6th – November 3rd 2022.
  • CRUSH, Backwater Artists Studios, June -August 2022, curated by Aoife Haze.
  • 192ND RHA ANNUAL EXHIBITION, Royal Hibernian Academy, 15 Ely Pl, Dublin, 23 May 2022 – 24 Jul, 2022
  • C L O S E R, Lavit Gallery, Cork, May 5th – May 28th, 2022, curated by Janice Hough.
  • ATLAS DEL ARTE ESPAÑOL, O Vello Cárcere de Lugo, España June- October 2021
  • Blue House Gallery Artists Summer Group Show, Schull, Co. Cork 4-23 June 2021
  • Revision Performing Arts Festival Online Exhibition, Filmed Drawing Performance, March 2020
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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

POSITIONS AND RESIDENCIES

Lecturer, BA (hons) Visual Art, SETU, Waterford. October 2022- present.

Lecturer, Life Drawing and Portfolio, MTU Crawford College of Art and Design, Cork. September 2022- present

Peer Panelist, Arts Council of Ireland 2021-2026

Programme Manager, Arts Council of Ireland, In the Open|Faoin Spéir, Wandesford Quay, Cork, December 2021- August 2022

Visiting Lecturer, Fine Art, TU Dublin, School of Creative Arts, November 2021

Curator, Education and Public Programs, Macroom School of Art, 2021

Artist in Residence in a Care Setting, Age and Opportunity Ireland, October – December 2019.

MA:AP Artist in Residence, MTU, Crawford College of Art and Design, January- December 2019

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 M.A.: Art & Process, MTU Crawford College of Art and Design, Cork, 2018.

AWARDS

  • Agility Award 2021, The Arts Council, Ireland
  • Visual Arts Bursary Award 2020, The Arts Council, Ireland
  • Royal Hibernian Academy, RHA micro-grant, 2020
  • Shortlisted for selection for The Derwent Art Prize 2020
  • CIT Arts Office Purchase Prize, Memories of a Nervous System, MA:AP Degree show, December 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

EDUCATION

  • M.A.: Art & Process, MTU Crawford College of Art and Design, Cork, 2018.
  • B.A. (Hons) Fine Art, MTU Crawford College of Art and Design, 2017.
  • BA in Montessori Studies, St Nicholas Montessori College, Dublin, 2005

Memberships: Backwater Artist Studio Member// Fellow Associate Member Cork Printmakers //(VAI) Visual Artists Ireland // Ormston House Limerick