Ciara Agnew's paintings are ostensibly simple pictures and yet they are more commanding, complex and beautiful than one expects.

Exhibitions

2008

• Limitations, TheBasement Gallery, Dundalk, (Solo Show)
• Us and More, Louth County Museum
• The Louth Artist Exhibition, Louth County Museum

2007

• 2 Week Artist in Residence at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Co. Monaghan
• North Louth Artist Exhibition, Louth County Museum

2006

• Open Window, The Carlinn Gallery, Carlingford, Co. Louth, (Solo show)
• Microsoft Ireland 19th Exhibition
• The painting Limitations is published in 'The Art of the State' 1995-2005 catalogue

2005

• Artist in residence at Tallanstown National School, Tallanstown, Co. Louth
• Bridge Street Studios@ the Basement Gallery, Dundalk

2004

• Grange Gallery, Oldtown, North Co. Dublin
• Art in the Townlands, Community project, created a public Artwork in Creggan, Armagh
• Currents OPW touring Art of the State exhibition
• The Glebe Gallery, Church Hill, Co. Donegal
• Birr Technology Centre, Mill Island, Birr, Co. Offaly
• Callan Friary, Callan, Co. Kilkenny
• Linen Hall Library, Belfast
• The Market Place Theatre and Arts Centre, Armagh
• Wexford Vocational College, Wexford
• District Offices, Limavady
• The Atrium, OPW Head Offices, Dublin
• Narrow Road, Shelbourne Hotel, Dublin (Solo show)
• Platform 10, Louth County Museum

2003

• Ogham Gallery, Belfast
• North Louth Artist Exhibition, Louth County Museum
• The Private Collector Gallery, Cork
• Art Ireland, Art fair, RDS, Dublin

2002

• Clotworthy Arts Centre, Co. Antrim
• Art Ireland, Art fair, RDS, Dublin
• Exhibitions of Prints, Dundalk institute of Technology
• Christmas Show @ Bridge Street Studio’s, Dundalk, Co. Louth

2001

• Degree Show, University of Ulster, Belfast
• The Sheldon Art Gallery, Belfast
• Bewley’s, Dublin

Biography

Ciara Agnew is a full-time working artist from Dundalk, County Louth. She studied art in University of Ulster, where she obtained a BA Honours Degree in Fine and Applied Arts, with specialisation in the area of painting.

She joined Bridge Street Studio's (www.bridgestreetstudios.com)in 2002, where she has been developing and exploring new techniques and approaches to her craft.

In 2005 she was selected by Co. Louth Council as artist in residence at Tallanstown National School, Tallanstown, Co. Louth. In 2006 she held a solo show ‘Open Window’, in the Carlinn Gallery, Carlingford, Co. Louth, she has exhibited at: Microsoft Ireland 19th Exhibition (2006); In 2004 she held a solo show, ‘Narrow Road’, in the Shelbourne Hotel, Dublin.

She has exhibited in several galleries including, The Sheldonart Gallery, Cork, Ogham Gallery, Belfast, Clotworthy Arts Centre in Antrim, Basement Gallery, Dundalk and she exhibits annually in the North Louth Artist Exhibition held in the Louth County Museum. Her work has been recognised and acquired by some of Ireland's foremost authorities on art.

Collections include ACC Bank and The Office of Public works have included fourteen of her paintings in the State Collection, that hang in various government buildings, one of which was included in the published catalogue 'The Art of the State' 1995-2005. Her paintings are also held in private collections, such as the Smuffit collection and other collections in the France, United States and Australia.