About the Artist

Vivienne Byrne is an Irish artist, curator and educator whose practice incorporates mixed-media collage, drawing, painting, film and installation.

Since graduating from IADT Dun Laoghaire in 2009 with a BA in Visual Arts Practice, she has been the recipient various awards from the Arts Council Ireland, Create Louth, CREATE and Creative Ireland.

Her work has been shown as part of the Annual Exhibition RHA, RUA, at CIACLA & IndieCork Filmfest.

2022 saw her awarded an Artist Residency at Creative Spark and an Agility Award from the Arts Council Ireland.

In 2021 she was awarded the Platform 31 Artist Bursary for Louth and received a Tyrone Guthrie Residency from Louth County Council.

She is a founding member of 8Fold Artist Studios and the Borrowed Ground Collective in association with Droichead Arts Centre in 2022.

Committed to grassroots community creative practice, she has been collaborating on a wide range of arts projects and delivering art workshops for the past 30 years.

For more information: Curriculum Vitae

About the Work

Byrne’s work is rooted in an exploration of elemental forces, visual rhythm, the experience of place and the nature of time.

A sense of loss has shaped the context of her practice, invisible forces work in the physical and metaphysical environment to act as departure points for a carefully crafted visual language that explores the significance of a captured moment.

Rooted in her locality of Drogheda in Louth, her work traverses personal, local and international historical narratives that question past existences and present circumstances.

Whilst much of her work is shaped by personal experience, working in collaboration with artists, communities and organisations has played a significant role in her development as an artist. Realising projects that tell a much wider story, offer her in a sense of place and of community, holding in high regard the intrinsic, immeasurable value, creative practices offer individuals and communities.