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A multi-disciplinary artist and educator whose practice is interested in the transitory experience, encourages social engagement through creative processes with an emphasis on video, drawing and mixed-media installation.
Solo Exhibitions
2019 EMIT, Droichead Arts Centre, Drogheda, Co Louth
2010 The Turning Point, Droichead Arts Centre, Co Louth
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 JumpCuts at Boyne Valley International Film Festival with Fighting Words 'This Story Might be True' film
RHA 194th Annual Exhibition invited artist
Night Moves - video installation at Droichead Arts Centre supported by Love Drogheda BIDS, Arts Council & Arts Offices in Louth and Meath County Councils
The Turfman from Ardee, Crankie Island Songs Festival
Looking, Drawing, Seeing, exhibition of drawing curated by Dorothy Smith at the Droichead Arts Centre
2022 The Morning Side of the Mountain, IndieCork Independent Film Festival
2021 Connection II, Lockdown Blossom with Lines of Enquiry, Drogheda Arts Centre
2020 Connection I, Lockdown Blossom with Lines of Enquiry, Drogheda Arts Centre
Between You and Me, Contemporary Irish Art Centre Los Angeles (CIACLA)
2019 Borrowed Ground, 11 Artists, 11 Weeks, 11 Studio Spaces, Drogheda Arts Festival
2017 Orientation, Droichead Arts Centre
www.thirtythree-45.com, ‘water reflector’ video installation
2016 Artists Arising 2016, Millmount Museum, Drogheda, Co. Louth
2015 Irish Composers Collective Takeover at the Irish Architectural Archive, Merrion Square, Dublin, water reflector, live music response in collaboration with composer Breifne Holohan
2014 Real and Imagined Worlds, Drogheda Arts Festival
New Music Festival, National Concert Hall, Dublin. Debut of ‘water reflector’ presented in collaboration with composer Breifne Holohan
53Minus6, Laurence Centre, Drogheda
2013 Things In Translation - The Merging Point, video installation, Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda, Co. Louth
Legs Foundation for the Translation of Things (LFTT), The Splitting Point, video installation, the Guesthouse, Cork
2012 Negotiations ‘The Splitting Point in the River Boyne’ video installation at Scotch Hall Shopping Centre, Drogheda
Drogheda Arts Festival Legs Foundation for the Translation of Things (LFTT) 3-day performance collaboration with artist Helen Horgan
Pattern & Redundancy - The Drawing Project, Dun Laoghaire, Dublin
Awards
2024 St Patrick's Festival Parade prize for Community Engagement as member of Droichead Arts Centre artistic team
2023 Overall winner of St Patrick's Festival Parade float as member of Droichead Arts Centre Artistic team
2022 Agility Award Recipient from the Arts Council Ireland
2021 Platform 31 Artist Bursary Award Recipient from Local Authority Arts Offices and Arts Council Ireland
2021 Louth County Council Tyrone Guthrie Regional Bursary Award 2021
2014 Create Ireland’s Artist in Residence Programme
Curatorial Projects
2020 Co-curated ‘Vestige’ by Louth Craftmark with artist Brian Hegarty and Droichead Arts Centre Director Collette Farrell
2014 GAME ON- Create’s Artist in Residence scheme collaboration with Coderdojo and Droichead Arts Centre, curated a multi-event for children at Drogheda Arts Festival 2014
2012 Curated the Drogheda 600 Arts Collective's showcase event ‘Negotiations’ representing thirty five of Drogheda’s
current practicing artists in Scotch Hall Shopping Centre, Drogheda
Projects/ Collaborations
2024 St Brigid 1500 facilitated craft workshops with Louth County Council
Collated and edited 'This Story Might be True' Fighting Words Ireland Story-Seeds Cross-Border storytelling project engaging with almost 10,000 people from both sides of the border
Facilitator and artist with Droichead Arts Centre’s Spooks Parade artists collective
Facilitator and artist with Droichead Arts Centre’s St Patrick’s Day artists collective engaging schools and community groups in the St Patrick’s Day Parade in Drogheda.
2023 Quilling craft facilitator with Marymount School, Drogheda
Facilitated and edited two film shorts with Fighting Words Ireland and Southside Community Project Drogheda
Facilitator and artist with Droichead Arts Centre’s Spooks Parade artists collective
Facilitator and artist with Droichead Arts Centre’s St Patrick’s Day artists collective engaging schools and community groups in the St Patrick’s Day Parade in Drogheda.
Videographer with Community Action Tenants Union collaborative documentary with Upstate Theatre Project
2021- present TAP (Teacher Artist Partnership) and BLAST (Bringing Live Art to Students and Teachers)- Artist in residence schools programme through Navan Education Centre, engaging with 13 schools in the North East Region
2022 Morning Side of the Mountain- A film collaboration with Upstate Theatre Project, Carlingford Heritage Centre, composer Breifne Holohan and lighting and set designer John McGovern.
Founding member of Antenna Collective – a collaborative arts-based climate action group.
2021 Being a Child in Drogheda in 2020, The Genesis Programme, collaboration with artist Yvonne Dowd Gardiner
2020 How to make a Shoebox Crankie, Crinniu na nOg 2020, short film.
Light Boat at High Tide, light installation with Upstate Theatre Project and the residents of Ship Street Drogheda.
Ship Street News - A Compendium of Understandings Volume 1. Art and design for publication for Upstate
Theatre Project collaborative project ‘futurepastpresent’.
2019 Stamp design for three official Boyne Valley Camino passport stamps from Drogheda to A-Coruna, Camino de Santiago de Compostela.
Borrowed Ground Collective founding member, developing experimental pop-up group exhibition/studio space/residency in the Gallery of the Droichead Arts Centre as part of Drogheda Arts Festival 2019.
2018 Mr. Wisscoccally- Adventure in Thorny Wood by Ruth Campbell, book design and illustration.
Flaa'd Out in Drawda, filmed and edited music video for Drogheda’s Rapscallion Ballad Band.
2016 Temple Street Children’s Hospital, commissioned to paint mural in the children’s multi-sensory room.
2015 A Christmas Carol, designed backdrop of the Tiny Dancers production at the Barbican, Drogheda, Co. Louth.
Junction Festival. Facilitated Junction Joe’s youth club in an interactive site-specific tour of Clonmel
2013 SHARED, commissioned by Upstate Theatre Project, audio-visual and set design with Drogheda Youth Theatre’s multi-media, multi-cultural theatrical event in An Tain, Dundalk, Co. Louth.
The Merging Point at 'Things in Translation' Group Show at the Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda.
Artist advisor with Development Perspectives (DPTV) documentaries
The Far Side by Brokentalkers, Member of Upstate Theatre Project’s devising and performing group.
Muirhevnamonster, Creative Spark, Dundalk, Co Louth. Facilitated MuPaPu’s shadow puppet production.
2010 LFTT Mobile Library, Culture Night, Bray, Co Wicklow. Collaboration event with artist Helen Horgan.
Education
2009 BA (Honours) Visual Arts Practice, IADT, Dun Laoghaire, Dublin.
2003 Graphics for Print Media FETAC/ City and Guilds Certificate, FAS, Cabra, Dublin.
2002 Certificate in Project and Community Development, University College Dublin.
2000 Group Facilitation, Meitheal Training Centre, All Hallows College, Dublin.
1997 Classical and 3-D Computer Animation NCEA Certificate, Metamorph, Ballyfermot Senior College, Dublin.
1992 Portfolio Preparation VPT Certificate, O’ Fiaich College of Further Education, Dundalk, Co. Louth.
Boards and Advisory Panels
2022- present 8Fold Studios, founding member.
2020- present Antenna Collective, arts and climate action founding member.
2018- present Chairperson of the Droichead Arts Centre.
2018 & 2019 Selection panel for First Solo at the Droichead Arts Centre.
2010- present Droichead Arts Centre Board of Management Member, Stockwell Street, Drogheda.
2017- 2022 Borrowed Ground Collective, founding member.
2010- 2015 Drogheda Youth Development, Board of Management Member, Westgate, Drogheda.
Member of Visual Artist Ireland
Full clean driving license.
Supported by the Arts Council of Ireland.
Supported by Creative Ireland
Supported by Create Louth.
Further information on my artistic practice and exhibitions can be found at my website: www.viviennebyrne.com
