Arts Council Agility Award Recipient
Delighted to announce I have been awarded the Arts Council Agility Award which will facilitate me to have more dedicated time and space in the studio and focused research time to develop new work for forthcoming exhibition at TØN Gallery Dublin in March 2024.
Thank you to the Arts Council of Ireland for their recognition of my work and practice. Much appreciated.
Winter Newsletter 2023 – Happy Christmas and New Year!
Welcome to my Winter Newsletter 2023 and what a year it has been! A huge thanks and appreciation to all the galleries, museums, artists, curators, writers, patrons, podcasters, viewers and buyers who have supported my work throughout the year and made 2023 a great year. Here’s a look back to some of the highlights from this year. Looking forward to very exciting exhibition plans being hatched with TØN Dublin in early 2024…watch this space!
Happy Christmas and New Year to one and all!
Claire
2023 brought many international exhibition opportunities, most significantly my first international solo exhibition – Primo Piatto at Galleria Cabaret Voltaire in Rome in March. Such an honour, experience and opportunity to exhibit in the Monti in the great city of Rome! The exhibition was very well received and reviewed and included paintings from the Augmented Auguries series. newly created Migrant Souvenir plates and a site specific historic sculpture – The Lost Heart of Daniel O’Connell.This intriguing work, through a sequence of events was bequested to the Church of St. Agata dei Goti, Rome for permanent exhibition in the church…My Body to Ireland, My Heart to Rome…. Donal Fallon, historian chats with me about it in his great podcast Three Castles Burning.
During the summer my work was exhibited in Summer Salon at Red Sheep Gallery, Klockestrand, Sweden, In the Cross Fire at SEAS Brighton as part of International Refugee week. Other group exhibitions included Mermaid 21 at Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray, Chaos/ Order at dlr Municipal Gallery, Dún Laoghaire, Here and Now at TØN Dublin. Another brilliant collaboration with Madeleine Hellier at Sculpture in Context 2023 – this year Glassophere a three part large scale installation across the Botanic Gardens. I am delighted also to have new work selected for the Winter Exhibition at Hillsboro Fine Art, Dublin currently on exhibition until 13th January 2024.
Another huge honour in 2023 was the inclusion of my work in this seminal publication –
LANDSCAPE AND ENVIRONMENT IN CONTEMPORARY IRISH ART
by YVONNE SCOTT, published by CHURCHILL HOUSE PRESS
This book identifies a representative selection of compelling and intriguing artworks by a range of around one hundred of the most challenging and vibrant artists from, or working in, Ireland or whose work addresses Irish landscapes and environments. Examining them both individually and collectively, this book reveals primary motivations behind strategies of representation.
New Paintings at Winter Exhibition at Hillsboro Fine Art Dublin 30th Nov – 13th Jan
Delighted to have new paintings selected for the Winter Exhibition at Hillsboro Fine Art.
Wonderful show with great line up of artists –
Cecilia Bullo, Sandro Chia, Peter Cleary, John Albert Duigenan, Patrick Graham, Claire Halpin, Marcelle Hanselaar, Gottfried Helnwein, Jonathan Hunter, Eddie Kennedy, Melanie le Brocquy, Kevin Mooney, Paul Mosse, Adrian O’Carroll, Gwen O’Dowd, John Noel Smith, Orla Whelan, George Warren.
Annual Winter Exhibition, Hillsboro Fine Art, 49 Parnell Square West, Dublin 1 continues until 13th Jan.
View artworks online at Hillsboro Fine Art Dublin and @hillsborofineart
TWENTY ONE – Mermaid Open Exhibition, Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray until 24 September
Delighted my work was selected for TWENTY ONE – Mermaid Open Exhibition at Mermaid Arts Centre, Bray, 15th July – 24th September.
Curated by Anne Mulleé
Celebrating 21 years of Mermaid’s Visual Art Programme, this group exhibition includes painting, sculpture, multimedia, printmaking and photography from over 80 artists. The work was selected through an Open Call earlier in 2023.
With works from:
Samuel Arnold Keane, Svenja Michelle Behle, Helen G Blake, Sahoko Blake, Joanne Boyle, Lily Boyle, Claire Buckley, Cathy Burke, Mary Butler, Fiona Byrne (1), Fiona Byrne (2), Olga Byrne, Susan Campbell, Tricia Carr, Judy Carroll Deeley, Emanuela Carvisiglia, An Gee Chan, Fiona Coffey, Neil Condron, Nadia Corridan, Caroline Creagh, Julie Cusack, Margaret Daly, Zoe Dillon, Julienne Dockery, Bernadette Doolan, Cathy Dorman, Alison Douglas, Rion Duffy Murphy, Olga Duka, Michael Durand, Aoife Dwyer, Bebhinn Eilish, Olga Evenden, Mary Fahy, Jack Fitzgerald, Sheila Flaherty, Pauline Flynn, Ursula Foley, John Foley, Noelle Gallagher, Margot Galvin, David Goldberg, Nasrin Golden, Aideen Griffin, Claire Halpin, Kevin Hamilton, Jacki Hanlon, James Hayes, 1iing Heaney, Maree Hensey, Fabienne Herbert, Aoife Herrity, Sylvia Hill, Elizabeth Hogan, Myra Jago, Paula Kearney, Danny Kelly, Laura Kelly, Ann Kennedy, Lynn Kennedy, James Kenny, Joanna Kidney, Anastasiia Kovtun, Oonagh Latchford, Barbara Lee, Megan Luddy O’Leary, Susan Madert, Linda Marshall, Irene McCabe, Banbha McCann, Shane McCormack, Emily McGardle, Lieselle McMahon, Denise McShannon, Ruth Medjber, Niall Meehan, Ciaran Meister, James Mellor, Susan Montgomery, Cecilia Moore, Marzieh Nazemzadeh, Sinead Ní Mhaonaigh, Padhraig Nolan, Brigid O’Brien, Cólin O’Connell + Michelle Doyle, Carmel O’Connor, Sorca O’Farrell, Eoin O’Malley, Daithi O’Manachain, Ciaran Patterson, Elizabeth Petcu, Yanny Petters, Adrienne Pope Fagan, Nicholas Robinson, Daniel Rodriguez Castro, Don Rorke, Colleen Roshenstock, Anna Maria Savage, Daniel Sexton, Clara Sheridan Bryson, Elinor Sherwood, Stephanie Sloan, Vincent Smith, Vauney Strahan, Jordan Taylor, Brian Teeling, Patrick Theobald, Rebekka Tomal, Laura Trueman, Miriam van Gelderen, Geraldine Verastegui Flores, Doru Viorel Ivan, Catherine Mary Ward, Ann Marie Webb, Dianne Whyte
TWENTY ONE continues at Mermaid Arts Centre until 24th September
Link here
Claire Halpin solo exhibition Augmented Auguries at Olivier Cornet Gallery/ Sept – Oct 2022
My solo exhibition Augmented Auguries was shown at Olivier Cornet Gallery in September/ October 2022. The exhibition received huge number of visitors and viewers and great response and review of the artworks and the exhibition overall.
Here is short video walk through of the exhibition and documentation images of the exhibition installed.
Thanks again to all who visited, viewed, responded and purchased the works. Thanks again to Joy Gerrard for opening the show, Brenda Moore McCann for the in conversation and of course to Olivier Cornet and his team at the gallery for their support and enthusiasm throughout the exhibition.
You can view further artworks from the exhibition here:
https://www.oliviercornetgallery.com/claire-halpin-augmented-auguries-solo-show-2022
and in the 3D virtual gallery here:
https://artspaces.kunstmatrix.com/en/exhibition/10701441/augmented-auguries-by-claire-halpin
Works from the exhibition are still available to view and purchase at the gallery storeroom.
Olivier Cornet Gallery
3 Great Denmark Street, Dublin 1
Opening hours:
Tuesday to Friday: 11am-6pm (till 8pm on Thursdays)
Saturday & Sunday: 12 noon-5pm
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