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  • HOME
  • The Future Museum of the Past
  • Birr Vintage Week & Arts Festival
  • Vintage Luminaries
  • Swan Lake
  • Mary Ward's Amazing World of Wonder
  • Five Go Camping
  • One Hundred Snow White Horses
  • Nation 1916-2016
  • The Amazing Sporting Zoetrope
  • Percent for Art
    • Scoil Bhride, Kilcullen
    • Scoil Chriost Ri, Portlaoise >
      • All That We Are, All That We Can Be
      • Meditation Room
      • Corridor Peices
      • Ceist
    • Tullamore Library
    • Abbeyleix South School
    • Emo NS
    • Belfast Healthcare Trust
  • Cabinets of Curiosity
  • Art@Work
  • Selected Exhibitions
    • Rag Tree
    • Welcome to the Garden
    • Canal Prints
  • Artist in Schools
  • Bealtaine
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  • contact
caroline conway

CV

​CURRICULUM VITAE
Caroline Conway
Coagh,
Killyon,
Birr,
Offaly                                      087 6482072  /  05791 33964
 
                                                carolinefconway@gmail.com
Website            carolinefconway.com  
 
EDUCATION
Heriot Watt University 1982-85 - Architecture
Edinburgh College of Art  - 1986 - 90 BA Hons 1st Class, Printed Textiles and Printmaking
 Watt Medal for best  Graduating Design  Student
1990 - 91 Post Graduate Diploma Edinburgh College of Art
 
Continuing Professional Development
            2018 -Arts Council Creative Associates Training
            2018 -CRAFTed  CPD day at the Ark
            2018 - Child Protection Training, delivered by DCCoI, Collins Barracks
            2017, 2016 -Arts in Education Portal National Day
            2016 -"Exploring Teacher/Artist Partnership in Arts Education", Laois Education Centre
 
   COMMISSIONS
            2018  Presentation Secondary School, Kilkenny, Nano Nagle 300
            2018 - Laois Youth Dance -  animator for Arts Council Youth Ensemble project.
            2018 - Offline Film Festival -Vintage Luminaries
            2018 -Presentation College Kilkenny -Nano Nagle 300 years.
            2017      Illuminate Herstory Projection at Birr Castle Courtyard
2017      Creative Ireland Community Project - Mary Ward’s Amazing World of Wonder, with Tina Claffey,             photographer, Clare Anne Kearns, composer ,inaugural performance with High Street Drama, Gallan Community School, Ferbane
2017    “One Hundred Snow White Horses” Animation for Criunniú na Cásca, with John Spillane and                 Paddock NS, commissioned by Laois Conty Coucil, funded through Creative Ireland
            2015    Scoil Bhride, Kilcullen, Kildare, Per Cent for Art Commission  -"Failte"
2013    Scoil Chriost Ri, Portlaoise, Per Cent for Art  -”All that We Are”, ”Meditation Room”, ”Ceist”,  “The Power of Words”
2012     Abbeyliex South National School, Laois, Per Cent for Art “Welcome to Our World”
2012     Tullamore Library, Offaly, PerCent for Art “I Love Books”
2011    Emo NS  - Per Cent for Art - ”Places we love to be, Things we love to do”.
2009     Public Art Commission, Belfast Healthcare Trust -  children’s and adolescent Mental Health  Units  
2009    Work selected for Midland Regional Hospital, Tullamore
2008     Durrow Tri-Centenary on Badminton Hall, Cork Road, Durrow
2002     Hand-made Paper Quilt for Laois County Council - 400 children from 30 primary schools  produced a 20ft x 10ft wall hanging, displayed in the County Library, Portlaoise
2000     Percent for Art Halting Site Project, Oakpark, Portlaoise - photo-montage and mixed media panels.
 1999    Millennium Banners for Church of the Sacred Heart, Stradbally
 
SHORTLISTED PROPOSALS
            2015    Newbridge Educate Together NS
            2015    St Anne’s NS, Ardclough, Kildare
2012    Kildare Community School, Kildare Town
2012    Caragh National School, KiLdare
2012    Scoil Bhride, Kill, Naas
2009      Mountmellick Library
 
ARTIST IN SCHOOLS AND THE COMMUNITY.
            2018 – Moate Library, Science Week
            2018 – Our Ladies Bower, Athlone, Maths Week
            2018 – St Joseph’s Primary School, Templemore, A History of Lost Things
            2018  -Mercy Primary Birr -Famous Fashionistas of Birr
            2018  -Cruinniu na  nOg - film project with four Offaly schools
            2018     DCCoI Panel
            2018     CRAFTed Project Athlone Arcadia
            2017     Anam Beo, IWA, Ballinagar, Offaly
            2017    Creative Engagements, Birr Community School
            2017   Banagher College -Science Week
            2017    Killeen NS Artist in Primary Schools, Tipperary Co Co
            2017    Borris in Ossory Artist in Primary Schools, Laois Co Co
            2017    Tutor  for CDP “ Exploring Teacher Artist Partnership”, Tullamore
            2016    Continuing Professional Development - "Exploring Teacher/Artist Partnership in Arts             Education, Laois Education Centre
            2016    Holy Family Senior School, Portlaoise, Artist, Teacher Partnership, Arts in Education,      residency.
            2016 - Dunamaise Theatre Portlaoise, adult and children’s printmaking including St Francis Special             School
            2016    National Learning Network ,Tullamore, animation workshops for adults with mental health             issues, with Anam Beo,Arts and Health
            2016    Culture Night Tullamore, 1916-2016 Schools workshops.
            2016    Kyle Park NS and Eglish NS, Artist in Schools  Tipperary
            2015    The Amazing Sporting Zoetrope  Culture Night and Hullaballoo, Birr
            2015    Artist in Primary Schools, Castlecuffe NS, Laois Co Co.
2014    Artist in Schools, Templemore NS, N Tipp Co Co
2011      Art@work, Ulster Bank, Roscommon, Roscommon Co Co
2011     Artist in Primary Schools, Scoil Eoin,Roscrea, N. Tipp Co Co
 2011    Artist in Primary Schools Castlecuffe NS, Laois County Council
2010    Artist in Primary Schools, Centenary Project, St Mary’s Convent Nenagh, N.Tipp. Co. Co.
2009    Artist in Primary Schools  Two Mile Borris, Thurles, N. Tipp Co. Co.
2009 -2010 Belmont Mill   Bealtaine
2008     Paper Quilt, Oxmantown NS, Birr
2003 - 2011       Adult Painting and Printing Classes - Busherstown Creative Centre, N.Tipp. -     ,Cloughan Offaly, -  Rath, Offaly,  - Belmont Mill Studio
2005    Ballinakill Wheel chair Association - Mixed media collage project.
2004 - 2005       Seminars and classes for Laois VEC and Enterprise Board on mixed media.
2004 - 2006       National Children’s Strategy Project for Laois County Enterprise Board
1997 - 2011      Murals in Schools and Community Fields
1997-2004         Children’s Summer Art Workshops for Laois County Council
 
 
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
Solo Exhibitions
            2017    "Remember Camping", Birr Vintage Week and Arts Festival
2016    Nation 1916-2016, Zoetrope -Birr Vintage Week, The Electric Picnic, Culture Night,                                Tullamore, Dunamaise Theatre Portlaoise -James Fintan Lalor School, Offline Film Festival.
2015  The Amazing Sporting Zoetrope  Culture Night, Hullabaloo Children’s Arts Festival, Birr Vintage               Week
2014    “Cabinets of Curiosity” – Travelling exhibition, Abbeyleix, Mountmellick Library Gallery, The Maltings, Birr Vintage Week and Arts Festival
2011    Birr Theatre and Arts Centre 
2009    Grennan Mill, Thomastown, Kilkenny Arts Week
2009     Belmont Mill Studio
2008    The Gallery@ Abbeyliex Library  
2007    Synesthesia Sat, Birr Union Workhouse, Solo Show as part of exhibition curated by Paul Murnaghan,  
2007    Aras an Chontae, Tullamore  
 
Curated Exhibitions
 
2016    "Homeland -A Terrible Beauty is Born" - videos from Ireland and Barcelona at Damer House Gallery, Roscrea
2015    Saibhreas - Touring exhibition curated by Muireann Ni Chonaill -Damer House   Gallery, Roscrea, Dunamaise , Portlaoise.
2010    Common Ground, Birr Theatre and Arts Centre  
2009    Art Across Cultures, Parish Centre, Portlaoise
2009    The  Source  Theatre Thurles, Christmas Exhibition
2008    Durrow Arts Week 2008, invited artist
2008    The Flat Lake Festival , Clones  - Das Boot  group show.
2008    Aras an Chontae, Tullamore - Open Submission Drawing Exhibition , curated by Mary Cremin
2008    Almond Tree Gallery, Roscrea, Summer Exhibition
2007    Aras an Chontae, Tullamore- Open Submission, Curated by Paul Murnaghan
2006    Belmont Mill Studio Show with Mark McGreavy and Jorn Ronnau -
2005    Birr Vintage Week - 3 Person Show
2004    Oxmantown Theatre, Birr - Group Show
2003    Tin Jug Studio, Birr - Group Show
1995    The Market House, Bailieboro - 2 Person Show
1994    County Hall, Portlaoise - 2 Person Show
1993    Dolan Moore Gallery, Athlone - Group Show
1993    Wellspring Gallery, Tralee - 2 Person Show
1992    The Collective Gallery Edinburgh
1991, 1992       Edinburgh Printmakers Workshop - Group Show
1991    Taipei Fine Art Museum - 5th International Print Biennial
1990, 1991       The New Designers - Business Design Centre, Islington, London
 
 
Work in the collections of :
Offaly County Council, Laois County Council, OPW, Shannon Development  , HSE., Belfast Healthcare Trust, Birr Castle Demesne Science Centre, University of Edinburgh
 
Selection Panels
2014     Selection Panel for Athlone Town Council, Public Sculpture Commission
2010     Selection panel for Gallen Community School, Ferbane Offaly -percent for art
2010     Selection panel for Belmont Mill artists bursaries
2009    Selection panel for Portarlington Convent NS, percent for art
2007    Selection panel for Belmont Mill artists bursaries
 
 
2006     Studio Bursary from Offaly County Council for Belmont Mill
2007    Child Protection Training
2008    Panel of Annam Beo, Offaly Artists in Healthcare
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