Sinéad Barrett is a Cork-based visual artist and Programme Coordinator of Sample-Studios. She has over twenty years of experience in working in the education and business sectors in partnership with organisations locally, nationally and internationally. In 2014 she returned to education to study Fine Art, graduating from Crawford College of Art and Design in 2019. She was awarded the CIT Presidents Prize for outstanding studentship and also received a Crawford College of Art and Design Graduate Residency award for the Materials Store for 2019/2020. She was also awarded the Sample Studios Graduate Curatorial Residency Award 2019/2020. She is very active in her own artistic practice, having secured numerous exhibition opportunities since graduating and received an Arts Council Visual Arts Bursary in 2021. Her work is held in both public and private collections.
Exhibitions
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2024
Sensing Place Exhibition Dec 24- Jan 25 Market Gallery, Douglas
Winter Members Exhibition December 24 Gallery Asna, Clonakilty
Members Winter Exhibition Nov-December 24 Cnoc Buí Arts Centre, Union Hall
Connections-West Cork Creates Aug 24 Cnoc Bui Arts Centre, Union Hall
Sample Studios Members Show August Lord Mayor’s Pavilion, Cork
Summer Members Exhibition Jun-July Uillinn, Wert Cork Arts Centre
Members Summer Exhibition July Gallery Asna, Clonakilty
SAMPLEYSIUM Feb- March 24 Elysium Gallery, Swansea
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2023
Echoes of Isolation June- Aug Spike Island ( Solo Exhibition )
Tonnta Nov-March Uillinn, West Cork
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2022
Autumn Exhibition Sept-Oct Be framed, Cork
Members Show August. Lord Mayor’s Pavilion, Cork
Decades, Joint Exhibition July Gallery Asna, Clonakilty
Summer Members Exhibition Jun-July Uillinn, Werst Cork Arts Centre
Spring Tide March-June Be Framed, Cork
Make your Mark Dec-March 2022 Siamsa Tíre, Tralee
2021
Monochrome NovJan Uillinn, Werst Cork Arts Centre
Members Show Nov/Dec Lord Mayor’s Pavilion, Cork
Winter Exhibition NovDec Be Framed, Cork
Together again Sept-Oct Grand Parade Gallery
Evanescent July- September Uillinn, Werst Cork Arts Centre
Standstill June -July Uillinn, Werst Cork Arts Centre
Winter Showcase Online Nov 2020 -Jan 2021 Online, ( WCAC)
2020
Harvest - West Cork Creates Aug 2020 - Jan2021 (online due to Covid19
Members Show Dec 2020 Lord Mayor’s Pavilion, Cork
The way we live June/July 2020 (online due to Corvid19)
The Space Gallery Galway
2019
Members Show Dec 2019 Lord Mayor’s Pavilion, Cork
Winter Salon Dec 2019 Backwater Studios, Cork
Brittle/Fragile October 2019 Westival, Westport, Co. Mayo
Dismantle June 2019 Final Year Degree , CCAD, Cor
Previous
Tautophony. May 2018 3rd year exhibition, The Kino, Cork
The Pier June 2017 GHYC, Co. Cork- Solo exhibition,
Trouvaille October 2015 1st year students in CIT CCAD.
Wandsford Quay Gallery, Cork
Curation
2021
September Oileán – Spike Island
May/ June Oileán – The Lord Mayor’s Pavilion, Cork
2020
October The Movements - Lord Mayor’s Pavilion, Cork
September Dominion- St Lukes Crypt, Cork
July Looking Glass, The Lord Mayor’s Pavilion, Cork
Awards & Publications
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• Residency Cnoc Bui, June-August 2024
• Residency Spike Island Oct 2022- May 2023
• Selected for Arts Council Peer Panel 2021-2026
• Arts Council Bursary Award 2021
• Murze Arts Magazine featured artist (issue ten) February 2020
• CIT Presidents Prize 2019
• Graduate Curatorial Residency Award, Sample Studios, Cork 2019/2020
• Crawford College of Art and Design Graduate Residency 2019/2020
• Irish Arts Review New Generation Gallery Official Selection 2019
• CIT Collection Prize 2019
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