Education

BA Fine Art, Centre for Creative Arts & Media, ATU Galway

Solo Exhibitions

2023

‘As I see It’, Corner Gallery, Clifden Arts Festival, September 2023

2022

Sunchyme an exhibition of new work for Shorelines Arts Festival, Portumna, County Galway

2019

Connemara Chroma an exhibition for the Galway Showcase at Celtic MKE Irish Fest, Milwaukee, WI. USA, in association with Galway 2020 and grant aided by Culture Ireland

Group Exhibitions

2023

Royal Ulster Academy 142nd Annual Exhibition, Ulster Museum, Belfast 

Summer of Love, The Courthouse Gallery, Ennistymon

Engage Art Studios, as part of Galway International Arts Festival

2022

Outset XMAS Show, December 2022

Galway International Arts Festival – ‘Galway Emerges’ at the Kenny Gallery

Galway International Arts Festival – Engage Studios Show

                    Clifden Arts Festival, ‘Regeneration’

       Summer Exhibition at the Courthouse Gallery, Ennistymon

2021

Summer Exhibition at the Courthouse Gallery, Ennistymon

Winter Exhibition at the Courthouse Gallery, Ennistymon

2020

Royal Ulster Academy 139th Annual Exhibition, Belfast

Winter Exhibition at the Courthouse Gallery, Ennistymon

Space Gallery, Corrandulla, Co. Galway. Due to Covid, this exhibition was online

2019

‘HARK’ Hambly & Hambly, Dunbar House, Enniskillen

Brittle/Fragile,  ‘Westival’, Westport’s Arts Festival

9 Walls Exhibition, The Hyde Bridge Gallery, Sligo 

Summer Exhibition at the Courthouse Gallery, Ennistymon

2018

Liberte, Éqalité, Sororité, Hambly & Hambly, Dunbar House, Enniskillen

Sowing a Seed: Archives to Art, Open Submission Galway County Council/Creative Ireland, Tuam Library, County Galway

Canvass to Canvas; Women of the West in association with Galway County Libraries

Eclectic XXV, Annual ​Winter Exhibition, Hambly and Hambly, Dunbar House, Enniskillen, Co. Fermanagh

2017

M’Asal Beag Dubh, Galway’s Great Read in association with Galway County Libraries and Galway City Library

’13’ Courthouse, Kinvara, Co. Galway

Graduate Degree Show, CCAM, ATU, Galway

2014

Fringe Festival, Galway

2011-2014

Various group exhibitions

Corporate Collections

Irish Consulate General, Chicago, USA

Office of the Mayor of Wisconsin, USA

Galway City Council

ATU (GMIT) Art Collection

Irish Water Safety – National Art Collection

Dean Hotel Group

Private Collections

Work in private collections in Ireland, the UK, Belgium and the USA

Other Projects

I am currently collaborating with Connemara Carpets, an artisan of exclusive handmade wool and silk rugs and wall-hangings, creating a series of wall-hangings for their new collection

Commissioned by Irish Water Safety to design artworks for a national campaign raising awareness around water safety

Awards

Arts Council Agility Award 2023

Culture Ireland Grant 2020

Academic Achievement Award at Graduation

Irish Water Safety Art Award for a series of artworks created for a national campaign

Memberships

Engage Art Studios

Visual Artists Ireland

Reviews

Aidan Dunne, Art Critic, Irish Times

The visual harmonies of Joan Finnegan’s paintings stem from the elegantly inter-locking forms that make up their compositions and her judicious sense of colour.  She works from specific sources (…) but rather than illustrating her sources, she uses them as points of departure to devise her own pleasing visual constructions