NUALA O’DONOVAN - CV
1962 Born in Cork City, Ireland Lives and works in Cork City, Ireland
Education
2008 MA Ceramics, Crawford College of Art and Design 1994 BA (Hons) in Three-Dimensional Design, Middlesex University, UK
Solo exhibitions
2017 Art Formed by Nature, Keane on Ceramics Gallery, Kinsale, Co. Cork, Ireland
Selected group exhibitions
2019-2020 Particle and Wave: Paperclay Illuminated, Arizona State University, USA & Touring 2019 Young Masters Art Prize 10th Anniversary Exhibition, Cynthia Corbett Gallery, London, UK Ceramic Art London - CAL 2019, Central St. Martins, Kings Cross, London, UK 2018 Earth, Wind & Fire - Made In Cork Contemporary, Crawford Art Gallery Cork/Ailear Crawford Corcaigh HOMO FABER - Best of Europe Hall. Curated by Jean Blancheart, Michelangelo Foundation, Giorgio Cini Foundation, San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice, Italy Royal Dublin Society - Hand Of the Maker, RDS Library, Ballsbridge, Dublin, Ireland Ealain 2018. A celebration of Irish Women Artists, National Gallery of Ireland 2017 They're Fired, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Coconut Grove, Miami, Florida, USA Inaugural exhibition of gallery artists, Tansey Contemporary Gallery, New Denver Gallery, Denver, Colorado, USA Shadow of Sodeisha, National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks, Dublin, Ireland R.H.A. Annual Summer Exhibition, R.H.A. Gallery, Ely Place, Dublin, Ireland
Touchstone, Farmleigh Gallery, Phoenix Park, Dublin, Ireland, National Craft Gallery, Kilkenny, Ireland 2016 In Residence 2, 33 Fitzroy Square, Oliver Sears Gallery, Dublin 2015 Desire Path, ARTHOUSE1 Gallery, Bermondsey, London, UK In Residence 1, Oliver Sears Gallery, Fitzroy Square, London, UK 2014 Human Intervention. Tansey Contemporary Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA European Ceramic Context Biennale. Bornholm Museum, Denmark. Exhibition of contemporary European ceramic work. One of two invited established artists, representing Ireland with Sara Flynn. Royal Ulster Academy Annual Exhibition, (invited artist), Ulster Museum, Belfast, Northern Ireland 2013 Portland Museum of Contemporary Craft, Portland, Oregon, U.S.A. Group show of artists from Flow Gallery, London, U.K. Edmond Byrne, Henk Wolvers, Hans Henning Pederson, Nuala O'Donovan Future Beauty, N.C.G. Kilkenny & Farmleigh Gallery, Phoenix Park, Dublin, Ireland ICON, Brown Thomas Grafton St, Dublin & Patrick Street, Cork, Ireland. Curated by Angela Kelly Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London, UK EnArt, Inaugural exhibition of Irish and British Artists in Taiwan, curated by Andrea Liu. Taichung and Taipei, Taiwan Five into Four, Oliver Sears gallery, Molesworth Street, Dublin, Ireland 2012 Ceramic Art London, R.C.A. Galleries, Kensington Gore, London, UK Dubh, Dialogues in Black, A.I.H.S. 991 5th Avenue, New York, USA & Oliver Sears Gallery, Molesworth Street, Dublin Ireland Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, Piccadilly London, UK 2011 transFORM, Contemporary Irish Ceramics, Farmleigh Gallery, Dublin and National Touring Exhibition On Repeat, Flow Gallery, London, UK Material Poetry, Galway Arts Festival, Galway, Ireland Portfolio at Farmleigh, Farmleigh House, Castleknock, Dublin Royal Hibernian Academy 200th Annual Exhibition, (Invited Artist), Dublin, Ireland Perceptions of Contemporary Craft, Lavit Gallery, Cork, Ireland Gallery Lilly Zeligman, Laren, The Netherlands Portfolio 2011, The National Craft Gallery, Kilkenny, Ireland 2010 MATERIALpoetry, American Irish Historical Society, New York City, USA Irish Ceramics, Millcove Gallery, Castletownbere Co., Cork, Ireland Portfolio, The Kenny Gallery, Galway, Ireland
Portfolio, National Craft Gallery, Kilkenny, Ireland 2009 Ceramics at The Hallward, The Hallward Gallery, Merrion Square, Dublin, Ireland Cup and Saucer, Musee de Carouge, Geneva, Switzerland Sculpture in Context, National Botanic Gardens, Dublin, Ireland R.D.S. National Craft Exhibition, R.D.S., Dublin, Ireland R.H.A. 179th Annual Exhibition, Royal Hibernian Academy, Ely Place, Dublin, Ireland Sculpture at the Hallward, Hallward Gallery, Merrion Square, Dublin, Ireland Organic Symmetry, National Craft Gallery of Ireland, Kilkenny, Ireland Showcase, Crafts Council of Ireland Award Winners, Exhibition Area, R.D.S., Dublin, Ireland National Sculpture Factory Selected Work, Touring Exhibition, Cork, Ireland 2008 Breaking Out, Emerging makers at the National Craft Gallery, Kilkenny, Ireland Art meets Science, joint exhibition with stone sculptor Angela Delaney, James Barry Exhibition Centre, C.I.T., Bishopstown, Cork, Ireland Sculptural Ceramics, Hallward/ Millcove Gallery, Dublin, Ireland CASe, Lavit Gallery, Cork, Ireland 2005 Pure Porcelain, Crawford College of Art and Design Exhibition Area, Cork, Ireland
Awards and Grants
2017 and 2011 Golden Fleece Award – Merit Prize 2012 and 2010 Culture Ireland Funding Award 2011 Crafts Council of Ireland – External Exhibitions Funding Award 2010 and 2009 RDS National Crafts Competition – First Prize Contemporary Ceramics 2010 and 2009 Ceramics Ireland Award 2010 Allianz Business to Arts Award – Commissioned Artist Golden Fleece Award – Shortlisted (One of Eight Candidates) 2009 Crafts Council Of Ireland – Purchase Award Hallward/Millcove Gallery – Annual Irish Ceramics Award 2008 Irish Arts Review – Inaugural Emerging Maker Award 2006-2008 C.I.T. – Post-Graduate Scholarship/Research Award
Art Fairs
2020 London Art Fair, The Cynthia Corbett Gallery, London, UK 2017 Art Geneva, Taste Contemporary Geneva, Switzerland 2014 Art Aspen, Tansey Contemporary Gallery, Aspen, USA SOFA Chicago, Tansey Contemporary Gallery, Chicago, USA 2013 SOFA Chicago, selected artists work for exhibition in VIP lounge area, USA 2012 Collect, Saatchi, Sloane Square, London, UK SOFA Chicago, Flow Gallery London, Chicago, USA 2011 SOFA West,Flow Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA Top of Europe, World Crafts Council Exhibition Area, Eunique Applied Arts Fair, Karlsruhe, Germany Ceramic Art London 2011, R.C.A. Galleries, Kensington, London, UK 2010 Collect, Saatchi, Sloane Square, London, UK Ceramic Art London, Royal College of Art, London, UK
Public Collections
Ulster Museum, Belfast, Northern Ireland. Contemporary Ceramics Collection National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks, Dublin, Ireland Crawford College of Art and Design, C.I.T., Cork, Ireland
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