Noelle Noonan I

artists statement I selected exhibitions I education I membership I collections I awards I 

 

artists statement:  

My studio practice embraces printmaking and painting as I feel each media has its own very distinct possibilities. I work in a variety of print making mediums and am constantly interested and influenced by alternative processes. My work is often a quest for self-discovery but not in an overt way. In the main my approach to my work is intuitive; there is a certain element of passiveness about the work. The pieces form over a period of time, often sharing a mood or theme.  Words frequently inspire my practice. Certain words appear to unlock reservoirs of suppressed thought, which would otherwise be excluded from everyday life. The work seems to have recurrent motifs; certain images have certain power and repeat themselves. The images can often be dense and layered to begin with but over time they become pared down not unlike the sparseness of a haiku poem.

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selected exhibitions:

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date

venue

Exhibition title

1998	Everyman Palace theatre	Moth
1990	Jacques Restaurant	Home

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group:

 

date	venue	exhibition
2008	Limerick Printmakers	Christmas Print Show
2008	Donkey Mill Art Centre, Hawaii	Group print show
2008	Limerick Printnmakers	Open Submission Show
2008	Shanghai and Beijing,  China	Is Mise Eire
2008	Lavitt quay and Belfast Print Workshop	Cultural identity in Ireland
2007	Horace Mann Gallery , New York	Cork Printmakers Group Show
2007	Nabakov Museum, St Petersburgh	Cork –St Petersburg 2006,Cork Printmakers Group Show
2005	Clo in China, Shanghai and Hangzhou	Contemporary Irish Printmaking
2005	Halsinglands Museum, Sweden	Taking Stock, Group Show
2004	Crawford Municipal Gallery , Cork	C2-Contemporary Art From Cork

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education:

date	college	award
1992	Brighton University, England	Master degree in Fine Art Printmaking
1987	Crawford College of Art and Design, Cork.	NCEA Diploma in Fine Art Painting

 

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membership of professional bodies:

dates	group	function
1994 –to date	Cork Printmakers	Full Studio Member and Board Director
1995-2007	Backwater Artist Group	Full Studio Member
2204 –to date	Limerick Printmakers	Associate Member

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collections:

Dail Eireann
RTE Cork and Dublin
Bank of Ireland
AIB
UCC
Crawford Municipal Collection
OPW
President Mary McAleese

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awards:

Art Council of Sweden
Art Council  of Ireland	Travel Bursary for Residency In the Royal University of Fine Arts Stockholm.
Art Council of Ireland	1998 for residency in Magypolany, Hungary.

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