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Upcoming Event: October 10 - October 25 The Big Auction - in aid of Kinsale Arts Festival 2009 further details at www.kinsaleartsweek.com during September
September 26 - October 9 2008 Inaugural Exhibition Geraldine Kieran, June Fairhead and Fiona Calnan June Fairhead
Diploma in Fine Art, Kingsway College, London
Teaches Sculpture at Kinsale Further Education College
Member of Sculpture Factory and Cork Printmakers.
Public exhibitions
1995 EV+A Limerick
1996 Iontas Touring Exhibition: Sligo, Dublin & Ormeau
Baths Belfast
1998 Scoip, Siamsa Tire, Tralee
1998 Solo Installation at Dublin Zoo (televised)
1999 West Cork Arts Centre (prints selected by Brian
Kennedy)
1999 Art Trail Cork
2002 Rhode Island Hall, Rhode Island, USA
2003 Cork Printmakers Touring Exhibition
(prints selected by John Shinnors)
2004 Triskel Art Centre, Cork Printmakers Touring
Exhibition (prints selected by Brian Kennedy)
2004 Fenton Gallery Raw not Cooked
2004 ] King House.Roscommon “Trunk Show” The Artist
as Traveller
2004 Sirius Art Centre, Cobh , The Artist as Traveller
2005 Barrack St Studios Kinsale Arts Week
2006 Arthaven Cobh
2006 Crackpots Gallery Kinsale Arts Week
2006 Cork Printmakers Open Submission Halsingland Museum Sweden
2007 Touchwood Studio, Kinsale Arts Week
2007 The Womens Gallery, London
2008 Cork Printmakers Open Submission selected by Charles Tyrell
2008 Crackpots Gallery Kinsale Solo show.
Collections . The Bank of New York. Private collections in Ireland,U.K. Europe.
Fiona Calnan
Fiona Calnan biography
Fiona Calnan is a Visual Artist specialising in Drawing. She grew up in London however spent regular periods of time in Kinsale, Ireland where she now lives. Her work and approach to it is informed by her relationship with both places and the rich contrast between them. Fiona studied Art & Design at Blackheath School of Art and gained an honours degree in Fine Art from Kingston University. Since leaving University, she has been developing her independent art practice and has exhibited her work regularly in various venues in Cork, Ireland. As well as focusing on the development of her own work, Fiona runs drawing and life drawing workshops and has organised community oriented exhibitions with the intention of encouraging creativity in others.
Artist Statement
I am a Visual Artist whose specialism is drawing. Through Drawing, I am trying to reach some understanding of how freedom and the expression of individuality are possible within a pre-determined structure. I am fascinated by our need for a framework with which to facilitate the expression of freedom. Drawing is the vehicle through which I feel most able to investigate this.
My formal art training was varied, combining a traditional approach while on foundation with a more conceptual, ideas led degree course. On leaving University I became involved in music, working with Hip-hop and Dance Artists as a singer and song-writer. I also became increasingly pulled towards sport such as running, kayaking, surfing, and most recently Capoeira.
My art training, experience in music and my approach to sport, all combine to inform and lead my visual art practice. I see parallels between them and drawing: all have a strong discipline and set of formulas or patterns at their core yet are vehicles for extremes of expression and creativity.
My influences range from the great masters to ‘Outsiders’, Graffiti and Storyboard artists, tattooists, my maternal grandparents and what I call throwaway media: sweet wrappers, newspapers and comics, adverts, doodles and ‘notes to self’ as left on napkins or post-its. Any kind of drawing is a source of inspiration, whether technical, communicative, expressive or made just for kicks. Ultimately, I am influenced by the street and what I grew up with – could see, hear, touch, coming from a council estate in Chelsea, London. It was always about the ‘mix’ and making an effort...and it still is but I can see the street more clearly from the edge of the ocean.
My current work juxtaposes the traditional approach to the figure and its representation in drawing with street-based art and the toilet doodle. Underpinning the juxtaposition of the genteel with the street is a strong work ethic – after all, it’s all about making an effort.
Geraldine Kieran
Geraldine Kieran, “Touchwood Studio”, Kinsale, Co. Cork
Received B.A. (Hon.) in Fine Art from the Crawford College of Art and Design, Cork in 2001.
Solo Exhibition: 2002 “Silence” Exhibition Centre, Cork Institute of Technology, Cork.
“Vast Spaces” ArtHaven Art Gallery, Crosshaven, Co. Cork
Group Exhibitions
2001 “Light Within”, Temperance Hall, Kinsale
Kinsale Arts Week.
2001 The Bodie Gallery, Newport, Rhode Island, USA
2002 Degree Show Crawford College of Art and Design, Cork.
2002 Rosscarbery Arts and Literature Weekend
2003 Gallery 9, Tigh Fili, Cork cARTel art group
2003 Rosscarbery Arts and Literature Weekend
2004 “Watermark” Vision Centre, Cork, cARTel art group
2004 Roscarbery Arts and Literature Weekend The Courtyard Gallery Middleton Barrack Green Studios Kinsale Arts Week
“Transvergence” Art Haven Gallery Crosshaven
2007 Open Studio “Touchwood” Kinsale Arts Week
2007 “The Girls” Arthaven Gallery Crosshaven
2008 Kinsale Arts Week – Open Studio
Selected Exhibitions
2001 “Fledglings” Lavitt Gallery, Cork
Christmas Show Lavitt Gallery Cork
Principal Collections
Cork Institute of Technology, Cork
H.E.T.A.C. (Higher Education and Training Awards Council )
Represented in Private Collections in Ireland, England and the U.S.A.
Awards
Cork Institute of Technology, Registrar’s Prize, Degree Show
Represented by
Art Haven Gallery, Crosshaven, Co. Cork
Russell Gallery, New Quay, Burren, Co. Clare
Haydn shaughnessy Gallery Kinsale Co. Cork
Jacobs on The Mall, The South Mall, Cork.
Personal Statement My paintings are of a semi-abstract nature. The inspiration for my work begins with rough sketches of the subject I have in my mind. This could be the drama of the environment, which surrounds me, the ever changing weather, a piece of music, or just the fun of experimenting with different mediums in a painting. As a work develops, the painting evolves and finds its own place. I am always conscious of colour, shape and form and have an intuitive response to playing with these three elements. I try not to impose too many disciplines on my work so allowing it to find its own resolve.
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