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DEIRDRE McKENNA
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DEIRDRE McKENNA: Biography
Education
B.A (Hons) Fine Art, University of Ulster, Belfast 1997-1998
M.F.A ,
University of Ulster, Belfast 2005-2007
Directorship:
Catalyst Arts,
Belfast 2002-2004
Public Art Works
Spud Murphy is dead
Likovni Salon (Gallery of Contemporary Art), Celje, Slovinia
Vstop prost 7/ Admission free 7 2006 (public intervention), Celje, Slovinia
Selected Exhibitions
2008
Christmas Project,
Project Space, Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast
Cinema Sports, DAS @ QSS , Black Box , Belfast
2007
Tulca 07,
G126, Galway
Members Show, Catalyst Arts, Belfast
Royal Ulster Academy, Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast
MFA Exhibition, University of Ulster, Belfast
Things you may have missed, Golden Thread Gallery, Belfast
There would have been no city, Belfast Exposed, Belfast
2006
Vstop prost 7/ Admission free 7 2006, Likovni Salon, Celje
Mice @ S.A.R.C., S.A.R.C, Queens University, Belfast
One and Zero, Catalyst Arts, Belfast
2004
Catalyst Arts Directors Show, Generator Projects
Dundee
2003
Stars at Noon, Triskel Arts Centre, Tobin Street, Cork
2002
Genders and Popular Culture, Queen Street Studios Gallery, Belfast
Precinct-Belfast, Belfast City Centre , C/o Catalyst Arts
2001
Strut, Catalyst Arts, Belfast
It’s life Jim , The Engine Room Gallery, Belfast
2000
Arthole, Array Studios, Belfast
’00, Root, Brick Lane, London
1999
Salon, Pallas Studios, Dublin
Barbie on the Beach , Proposition Gallery, Belfast
Root, Root,Brick Lane, London
Glimpse, Queen Street Studios, Belfast
P.M.T (where’s my brief), Pallas Studios, Belfast
Culture Vulture, Abode Show, Belfast
1998
Array Studios Members Show , Array Studios,, Belfast
Hardline, Catalyst Arts, Belfast
Verses, University of Ulster,Belfast
Set, Catalyst Arts, Belfast
2003
Parlour, Queen Street Studios Gallery, Belfast
Further Information
Currently employed by the Golden Thread Gallery .Board member of Flax Art Studios , Belfast 2007.
Member of Catalyst Arts Sub Committee
Co- Director of Catalyst Arts 2002-2004
Founder member of Fat Arts, a Belfast based Fine / community arts organisation.
Awards
Individual Artists Award 2008, Arts Council of Northern Ireland.
Dean’s Prize 2007
RUA Prize Outstanding Student Award 2007
British Council Support (Travel) 2005
Individual Artists Award 2004, Arts Council of Northern Ireland.
Individual Artists Award 2002, Arts Council of Northern Ireland.
Travel Award 2003, Arts Council of Northern Ireland.
Residencies
Artist in residence Celje Slovenia 2005
Exhibition/Project Curation
Veneer/folheado Exchange Project, Catalyst Arts, Belfast and ZDB, Lisbon September-October 2003. (With accompanying publication and 7” vinyl record)
C-Zine, creation of an independent publications library with accompanying talk by Mark Pawson, Catalyst Arts, Belfast