Curriculum Vitae
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2024 Spike Island installation as part of Cork Harbour Festival. Knowledge as Freedom.
​2024 Drawn Works Backwater First Floor Corridor Group Show
2023 Lavit Gallery Cork Summer Show: ceramic sculptures
2023 Blue House Gallery Schull Co. Cork. Summer Show: ceramic sculptures
2023 Salvagem Window. Studio sale: The Yellow Cup Series: oil on Arches paper
2023 Backwater Artists Group Winter Salon
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2022 Falter. Check. Resolve Studio 12 Backwater Artists Group Cork
In Autumn 2022, I had a solo show in Studio 12, Backwater Artists Group, Cork; an installation of impossibly contorted ceramic horses, eighteen Beckett ‘Chess Piece’ drawings and a piece of text (a description, or a memory, of having played chess in a mental ward) on the wall. The ‘Chess Piece’ drawings are absurd in that all of the chess pieces depicted are horses, a tribute to the spirit of Beckett, in whose novel Murphy, the hero plays chess in a lunatic asylum.
2022 Art Riddler Dublin: ceramic sculptures
2022 Backwater Artists Network Fota House Co. Cork: drawings ink and pencil on paper
2021 Backwater Artists Group Salon Cork: oil on paper
2021 Blue House Gallery Schull Co. Cork Summer Show: oil on Arches paper paintings
2021 Lavit Gallery Members Show: drawings mixed media on paper
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2020 BAN Group Show Studio 12 Backwater Artists Group: Oil on Arches paper paintings
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2019 Lavit Gallery Members Show: drawings pencil and collage on paper
2018 Seven. The Guesthouse Cork
In December 2018, I exhibited three series of works: 7 Chess Piece (all of the pieces are horses) drawings (mixed media on Ingres paper), 7 Dead Flower drawings (pencil and graphite aquarelle on watercolour paper on Ingres paper) and 7 Objects Observed: seven oil on canvas painting accompanied by a text in letter form.
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2017 The Road Not Taken Ballymaloe Grainstore Co. Cork: drawings, text piece, ink and acrylic on paper
2016 Studio sale: Duck Egg series oil on canvas paintings
2006 Greenlane Gallery Dingle
Oil on canvas Horse paintings
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2002 Vangard Gallery Cork with Michael Quane
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1999 University College Cork
Oil on canvas Horse Paintings
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2002 Vangard Gallery Cork with Michael Quane
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Publications
2024 Flotsam magazine: The Food issue. Letters to the editor of a fictional newspaper. (forthcoming)
2023 Flotsam magazine: The Roleplay issue. Concrete Prose Poem.
2021 Death by Petty Grievance. A lockdown book. Illustrated rants.
2020 The Book of How. Illustrated short stories offering an absurd solution to everyday problems.
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Statement
Born in Dublin in 1971, my son was born in 1990 - my work is about being a single mother, a woman. Often drawing on literature, I make work which concerns itself with trauma and joy - the joy of making.
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annabarden[at]gmail{dot}com