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Cliodhna Quinlan is a
visual artist living and working in Ireland. She studied weaving and textile
design in NCAD Dublin. She was also taught from an early age by her mother
everything to do with fabric, knitting and sewing. She ditched it all for a
while in favour of music, theatre and street performance after she left collage
but found her way back to it through a sewing machine someone gave her. She has been
developing as a textile artist ever since, finding her voice and honing her
technique.
She works in various
media but is drawn towards textiles more and more. She embroiders because she
is inspired by the richness of colour and texture of the fabric, threads and
beads. She pulls, stretches paints on and layers fabrics to create many hued
complexities. She uses silks, chiffons and satins and then stitches and beads
over this. She allows the medium to dictate the process and show her the way
forward.
She seeks to illustrate the richness and complexity of the world she sees around her. She creates because she has to and because the images inside her itch and annoy until she lets them out. She will have an inspiration of an image or a feeling she wants to portray and then she works out how to arrive at the finished piece. Her current work is very illustrative; she tells stories and each element and colour has significance to the whole. She thinks of it like she is creating her world around her in images and as she finishes a piece it becomes real and part of her life.
She accepts commisions and is open to any enquiries. Please email or ring her at the contact details below.
All the work on this site is her my own and copyrighted. If you wish to use any images please contact her first. Thanks....
cliodhnaq@gmail.com
00 353 (0)83 4014 336
http://www.facebook.com/GreenBirdDreaming
www.cliodhnaswave.com (personal blog)
CV
Solo show Signal Arts Centre June 2011
Wemoon Diary 2011, 2013, also Wemoon 30 year anthology
June 2008 The Railway Gallery,
Dalkey, Co Dublin, group exhibition.
May 2007 solo exhibition, Signal
Arts Centre, Bray, Co Wicklow, Ireland
June 2006 Month long show in El
Midi, a café/gallery, Guanajuato, Mexico
January 2006 Exhibited in Galería
Izamel as guest artist for the month, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
September 2004 solo show in Signal
Arts centre, Bray, Co Wicklow
December 2003 group exhibition in
Cobalt gallery, North Great Georges street
June 2002
solo show, Signal Arts
Centre, Bray Co Wicklow
September 2001/June 2002, part time
arts teacher in Killians CS Bray, Co Wicklow
May 2000 Group Exhibition for
Artists in the Bray area
October 1996/January 1997 Celtic
style murals for the Irish Pub company
Also numerous commissions down over
the years for private clients and Illustration work for Mercier press
and
Coisceim.
Mercier Press; The Rhino’s
spectacles… Gabriel Rosenstock. Front cover and 28 line drawings
The Knitting and Stitching Show, RDS, November 2011
I did the knitting and stitching show in the RDS before christmas and it was so amazing to be surrounded by incredible textile art of all shapes and sizes. From the quilt competitions to a retrospective of Beryl Dean there was something from all ranges of the art world. I was asked by the Dublin Embroiderers Society to give a talk next October which is an honour and I am looking forward to it! Plan plan plan... what aspect of my chaotic mind am I going to inflict upon them :)
I also did Marley Park for the second year in a row and really enjoyed that too and then a few smaller craft fairs in Dalkey and then In Carrick-on-Shannon in the Dock arts centre.
Me and Paul at breakfast in a rooftop restaurant in Gautemala
I
am going to be living in Ireland a while now. I am very excited about
that, we are looking for a house around the Sligo area. Only thing is
the other half still has to work in Guatemala and is going on rotation
six weeks on, three weeks back in Ireland. He has only been gone two
weeks and I miss him already. Roll on the invention of instant portal
doors.
the beach at Ballyconnell in Sligo
The garden at my parents house with the birdfeeder. The wires and trays are to stop the squirrels
Workwise I am developing a quilt. I got the inspiration from the birds in my mothers garden. She has fed generations of birds and there are even seasonal visitors that know her garden is the place to come. I drew the plants and am dying the fabric and my mother will put it together for me. I am using pen and ink drawings of birds my sister did so the quilt will truly be a colaboration of the female quinlans!
Thanks
to all who have bought my work, give me enouragement, comment on my
facebook or blog or those who have just looked and liked what they saw
and of course my biggest fan, Paul, who always has great words to say
about the newest piece. :)
my workstation! Now I have a bigger table :)