On this episode, Caren Sullivan talks to artist Joseph Heffernan in 2021.

Joseph Heffernan is an Irish artist based in Backwater Artists Studios, Cork. His exquisite paintings transports the viewer to a different, magic era.

Education

2013-2016: MFA(Painting), NCAD, Dublin.

2012-2013: Creative Ceramics Level 6, Colaiste Stiofain Naoife.

2005-2009: Hons BA(Fine Art), Crawford College of Art and Design.

Selected Exhibitions Solo

2023: A Thousand Years, Studio 12 Gallery, Backwater Artists Studios, Cork

2022: The Golden Age, Blue House Gallery, Schull, West Cork

2020: There were Strange Gatherings, Ashford Gallery, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin

2018: Borderland/Memento, Garter Lane Arts Centre, Waterford (2-Person)

Selected Group

Upcoming: 

Backwater Members Show, Lavit Gallery, Cork

2023: 193rd Annual Open, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin

2023: Displacement and Belonging – Home, RUA RED, Dublin

2023: Annual Members Show, Lavit Gallery, Cork

2022: Winter Show, Lavit Gallery, Cork

2022: Sample Studios Annual Members Show, Lord Mayors Pavilion, Cork

2022: Closer, Lavit Gallery, Cork

2022: Annual Members Show, Lavit Gallery, Cork

2021: Sample Studios Winter Members Show, Lord Mayors Pavilion, Cork

2021: Annual Members Show, Lavit Gallery, Cork

2021: Backwater 30th Anniversary Exhibition, Blue House Gallery, Schull

2020: 190th Annual Open, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin

Awards

2023 Cork City Council Individual Artists Bursary

2021 Arts Council Agility Award

2020 Contemporary Irish Arts Society Award for a work of Distinction

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