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Education Accredited
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, Drumcondra, Dublin
1997 Classical and 3-D Computer Animation NCEA Certificate, Metamorph Training Programme, Multi-media Centre, Ballyfermot Senior College, Dublin
1992 Portfolio Preparation VPT Certificate, O’ Fiaich College of Further Education, Dundalk, Co. Louth
2021. Teacher-Artist Partnership Summer Course 2021 for supporting and enhancing arts in education in Ireland
2013 Community Television Studio Operator Course, the Guinness Enterprise Centre, Taylor’s Lane, Dublin
2012 Pedagogy of Cultural Rights, study visit to Liverpool Biennials ‘The Unexpected Guest’ with Blue Drum and Connect Family Resource Centres
2011 Managing Socially Engaged Projects with Artist Fiona Woods, Visual Artists Ireland, Dublin
Solo Exhibitions
2019 EMIT, Droichead Arts Centre, Drogheda, Co Louth
2010 The Turning Point , Droichead Arts Centre, Co Louth
Selected Group Exhibitions
2022. The Morning Side of the Mountain, IndieCork22 Film Festival, online showing of collaborative film with Upstate Theatre Project and Carlingford Heritage Centre
Dwell, Creative Spark Residency programme, group show, An Tain Arts Centre, Dundalk
2021 Royal Ulster Academy 140th Annual Exhibition
Borrowed Ground Collective, Connection II, Lockdown Blossom, Lines of Enquiry, Music of the Spheres and Breath, Droichead Arts Centre
2020 Borrowed Ground Collective, Connection I, Lockdown Blossom with Lines of Enquiry, billboard exhibition Droichead Arts Centre
Between You and Me, Contemporary Irish Art Centre Los Angeles (CIACLA) in association with MART Gallery and Studios
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
2011 LFTT Mobile Library (Hermitage MK3), Broadstone Studios, 22 Harcourt Terrace, Dublin 2. ‘Can You Hear the Birds, St. Francis?’ multi-media performance and video installation
Print Point Print Studio official launch, Droichead Arts Centre, Barlow Yard, Drogheda
2010 Teddy Doyle Tribute Exhibition, Droichead Arts Centre, Drogheda
Urbxchange, Unit 1& 2 The Haymarket, Drogheda.
Nexus Arts at the Drogheda Arts Festival, Irish Nationwide Building, West Street, Drogheda
2009 Straying Closer to the Truth, The Friary, Multyfarnham, Co. Westmeath
Here’s Something I Made Later, Market Studios, Mary’s Lane & Halstrom St., Dublin 7
Graduate Show, Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design & Technology, Dublin
2008 Wind Drawings, Droichead Arts Centre, Stockwell Street, Drogheda, Co. Louth
1 in 10, Broadstone Gallery, Hendrons Building, 36-40 Upper Dominick St, Dublin 7
2007 Flow, movie short shown at the emerging artists showcase at the Digital Hub, Thomas St. Dublin
Curatorial Projects
2021 Curated ‘Tend and Befriend’ painting exhibition by Olga Duka at the Droichead Arts Centre, Drogheda
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, culminating in the video mapping of St Laurence Gate, a 3-day technology and robotics event in Boomerang Youth Cafe, exhibition, workshops in 3D printing, talks by the lead artists at Legacy Effects LA, coding apps and games development workshops with Drogheda’s young programmers
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
2007 Upstate Theatre Project 10 Year Exhibition of Professional and Community Engaged Theatre, Barlow House, Drogheda
Awards
2021 Arts Council Agility Award Recipient
Platform 31 Bursary Award Recipient
2019 Louth County Council Tyrone Guthrie Regional Bursary Award
2014 Create Ireland’s Artist in Residence Programme
Projects/ Commissions
2022 The Morning Side of the Mountain. Collaborative film with Upstate Theatre Project, composer Breifne Holohan, Carlingford Heritage Trust, the Drogheda Arts Festival and the voices of Peadar and Kathleen Elmore.
2021 Being a Child in Drogheda in 2020, The Genesis Programme, collaborative project with artist Yvonne Dowd Gardiner with four schools in Drogheda
2020 How to make a Shoebox Crankie. Made for Crinniu na nOg 2020 with the support of Creative Ireland and An Tain, Dundalk,
Co. Louth. https://youtu.be/ueXDWzslpJc
Light Boat at High Tide. Commissioned by Upstate Theatre Project to create a light installation at Ship Street, Drogheda in collaboration with lighting designer John McGovern. http://upstate.ie/light-boat-at-high-tide/
Ship Street News - A Compendium of Understandings Volume 1 Design and layout of publication in collaboration with Upstate Theatre Project, Architect Caroline Whatley and the residents of Ship Street, Drogheda, Co Louth.
2019 Boyne Valley Camino commissioned design of three of the official passport stamps from the Drogheda to A Coruna section of the
Camino de Santiago de Compostela
Borrowed Ground Collective, 11 Artists, 11 Weeks, 11 Studio Spaces. Member of the curatorial team to develop 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, designed and illustrated the childrens’ story written by author Ruth Campbell
Flaa'd Out in Drawda, music video celebrating the coming of the Fleadh to Drogheda in 2018 by Rapscallion Ballad Band
2017 Boomerang Youth Café, Drogheda, commissioned to paint mural on front door
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, Clonmel. Facilitator with Junction Joe’s youth club with Australia’s ‘One Step at a Time Like This’ production company, to realise an interactive site-specific digital tour of Clonmel
2013 SHARED- Commissioned by Upstate Theatre Project. Videographer and set design for the youth theatre’s multi-media and multi-cultural theatrical event in an Tain, Dundalk, Co. Louth
The Merging Point, video installation. 'Things in Translation' Group Show at the Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda
Development Perspectives (DPTV) collaboration to develop documentaries highlighting local and global concern
'Salmon ofKnowledge’ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Izrp-tvf1M ‘Food for Thought’ in http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Izrp-tvf1M
2012 The Dubliners Dilemma, camerawork on promotional video of theatre practitioner Declan Gorman’s adaptation of James Joyce’s Dubliner
The Far Side Member of Upstate Theatre Project’s devising and performing group directed by Brokentalkers, that included excerpts from
"4 Measures" video installation
After Completion Member of artist Monica Flynn’s performance response to the LFTT Library at the Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda
Muirhevnamonster, Creative Spark, Dundalk, Co Louth. Facilitated MuPaPu’s shadow puppet production, a collaboration between artists, writers, videographers and the residents of Muirhevnamor, Dundalk https://youtu.be/PemLtyQoVp0
2010 LFTT Mobile Library, Culture Night, Bray, Co Wicklow. Collaboration event with artist Helen Horgan
2006 Celebrating Change, Sunshine Bar, North Quay, facilitated the production of a (30 x 4 ft) mosaic in collaboration with the residents of Drogheda Homeless Aid, St Joseph's Hostel, North Strand
Residencies
2021- 2022 BLAST Arts-in-Education Residency Programme Approved Artist
2022 Create Louth Tyrone Guthrie Artist Residency Bursary Award 2020, Annaghmakerrig, County Monaghan
2021 Artist in Residence at Creative Spark, Clontygora Court, Muirhenvamor, Dundalk, County Louth
2012 Legs Foundation for the Translation of Things LFTT, facilitated six month residency project in collaboration with artist Helen Horgan
2014 Create Ireland Artist in Residence scheme
2008 The Friary Artist Residency, Multifarnham, County Westmeath.
Professional Positions
A background in graphic design and animation has led to a twenty five year career engaging communities through creative workshops in art, literacy and digital media.
2021- present Teacher Artists Partnership (TAP) Arts-in-Education Residency Programme Approved Artist
2017- 2020 Louth Meath Education and Training Board, Drogheda
2019 Children’s Art Summer Camp facilitator Droichead Arts Centre
Crinniu na nOg Children’s Festival art facilitator, Mellifont Abbey, Monasterboice, Co. Louth
Drogheda Arts Festival, Draw on Louth facilitator, St Dominic’s Park, Drogheda
2018 Leanbh Festival, art workshop facilitator in various schools in the North East Region, Droichead Art Centre,
2017 Leanbh Festival, art workshop facilitator
Crinniu na Casca, art facilitator at Mellifont Abbey, Monasterboice, Co. Louth
2013-2014 FETAC Level 4 Digital Media Facilitator ESLO, Drogheda Youth Development, Drogheda
2013-2014 Creative Arts Facilitator Blue Drum’s Happy Parenting Initiative working with Family Resource Centres nationally.
2013 Art Facilitator ‘How are you feeling today?’ St. Colm Cille’s GAA Club, Co Meath.
2012- 2013 FETAC Level 3 Arts and Crafts Facilitator ESLO, Drogheda Youth Development, Drogheda.
2012 Art Facilitator Droichead Arts Centre, Drogheda.
2009 Assistant Co-ordinator of DAVE (Digital Audio-Visual Education), Drogheda Youth Development, FAS and Community Media Associates
2008 Assistant Co-ordinator of ESLO (Early School Leavers Opportunities) Programme, Drogheda Youth Development and FAS
Facilitated FETAC Level 3 Modules of Puppetry, Visual Arts Practice, DYD, West Gate, Narrow West Street, Drogheda, Co Louth.
2008 Puppet Making Facilitator Beyond the Lough, Carlingford Community Development, Carlingford, Co. Louth and Bush Post Primary School, Riverstown, Dundalk, Co. Louth
2007 Assistant Administrator & Visual Artist Upstate Theatre Project, Drogheda.
2003-2007 Assistant Resettlement Officer and Workshop Co-ordinator, Drogheda Homeless Aid, 35 North Strand, Drogheda, Co. Louth
Membership
Teaching Council of Ireland Registered
Visual Artists Ireland
Borrowed Ground Artist Collective
National Campaign for the Arts
Drogheda Artist Network
Drogheda 600 Arts Collective
Boards and Advisory Panels
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- Present Borrowed Ground Collective, founding member
2010- 2015 Drogheda Youth Development, Board of Management Member, Westgate, Drogheda
2011- 2014 Print Point Print Studio, founding member and governance, Droichead Arts Centre, Barlow Yard, Drogheda
Press/Publications
2019 https://visualartists.ie/events/emit-vivienne-byrne-at-droichead-arts-centre-drogheda/
https://droghedalife.com/news/vivienne-byrnes-visual-music-at-droichead
2017 http://thirtythree-45.com/1301-2/
2013 http://www.artscouncil.ie/Case-Studies/Arts-Participation/The-Far-Side/
2012 https://thelfttlibrary.com/2012/05/03/drogheda-arts-festival-2012-2/
https://www.dkit.ie/system/files/Tech%20Talk%20Flyer%20Drogheda%20Arts.pdf
Public Presentations
2019 Public talk on EMIT, solo show at the Droichead Arts Centre
2012 Panel discussion at Pattern and Redundancy, the Drawing Project, Dun Laoghaire, Dublin
Collections
Has work in public and private collections.
2010 - present
2010 - present
