Education
2017
BA Fine Art
Centre for Creative Arts & Media,
Galway Mayo Institute of Technology
Dublin Rd, Galway, Ireland
Current Project
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
October 2020
Selected for the Royal Ulster Academy 139th Annual exhibition, Belfast, October 2020
Solo Exhibition
Connemara Chroma an exhibition of new work for the Galway Showcase at Celtic MKE Irish Fest, Milwaukee, WI. USA August 2019, in association with Galway 2020 and Culture Ireland
Group Exhibitions
2020
Selected for the Royal Ulster Academy 139th Annual Exhibition, Belfast, October 2020
2019
‘HARK‘ Hambly & Hambly, Dunbar House, Enniskillen
Brittle/Fragile, ‘Westival’, Westport’s Arts Festival
9 Walls Exhibition, The Hyde Bridge Gallery, Yeats Memorial Building, Sligo
Summer Exhibition at the Courthouse Gallery, Ennistymon
2018
Liberté, Éqalité, Sororité, Hambly & Hambly, Dunbar House, Enniskillen, Co. Fermanagh
Sowing a Seed: Archives to Art, Open Submission Galway County Council/Creative Ireland, Tuam Library, County Galway
Canvass to Canvas; Women of the West, Galway’s Great Read 2018, in association with Galway County Libraries at Ballinasloe Library, County Galway
Eclectic XXV, Annual Winter Exhibition, Hambly and Hambly, Dunbar House, Enniskillen, Co. Fermanagh
2017
M’Asal Beag Dubh, Contemporary Imaginings of a Classic Tale, Galway’s Great Read 2017, in association with Galway County Libraries, Galway City Library, St. Augustine Street, Galway
‘13’, KAVA, Courthouse, Kinvara, Co. Galway
Graduate Degree Show, CCAM, GMIT, Galway
2014
Fringe Festival, Galway
2011-2014
Various group exhibitions
Corporate Collections
Irish Consulate General, Chicago, USA
Galway City Council
Galway Mayo Institute of Technology Art Collection
Irish Water Safety- National Art Collection
Private Collections
Work in private collections in Ireland, the UK, Belgium and the USA
Other Projects
Commissioned by Irish Water Safety to design artworks for a national campaign raising awareness around water safety
Awards
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
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