CIARA SCANLAN

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BIOGRAPHY

Ciara Scanlan is Visual Artist working in site-specific video and performance based work. Her work is concerned with her place in modern society and an attempt to make sense of it. In her work she hopes to create space in which she free to explore and challenge personal and social limitations through performance and invention. To every action there is an equal but opposite reaction.

Ciara is currently studying for her MA Art In The Digital World at NCAD and is a graduate of Crawford College of Art Cork 2005 with first class honors. Ciara was quest Artist with Artspace studios for 2 years and is the founding member of MART Art Group who exhibits widely in Ireland and have upcoming events abroad. Ciara has had work shown in the Galway Arts Festival, Tulca, IMOCA and has solo show to be announced in Dublin.

EXHIBITIONS

2004

Diploma show Lough community centre- work purchased by city council.

‘Inside, Out’- Group show UCC, Cork

‘Enso live’ Black Box, Galway

2005

Degree Show- “Talk Less”, Crawford College of Art.

‘8×8′ Group exhibition, Galway fisheries tower.

2006

‘Chimera’ Group exhibition, Galway Art’s Festival

‘Climb’ Tulca, Solo show, Artspace studios, Galway

2007

MART@MUSUME, Galway City Museum,

‘The Art Cart’, Tulca Festival, Performance, ‘Art for free’

2008

Galway Arts Festival 2008, The Thatch, Henny St. Video Installation

‘Meat Media’: Tuam Arts festival, Video Installation.

2009

‘CAMERA OBSCURA’MA GROUP SHOW: Lighthouse Cinema, Smithfield, Dublin

‘Is This the Place’: Group show, IMOCA, Irish museum of contemporary art

‘There will be time’ Video Installation, SHUNT, LONDON BRIDGE

‘OPEN DOOR POLICY’: Video Installation, SHUNT LONDON BRIDGE

‘Love Machines’: Galway Arts Festival, Video Installation/performance

‘This is not the title of the show’: Group show, Rotar 1, Goteborg, Sweden