Copyright 2010
Ciara Healy Artist Statement
Using paint and antique natural history books, my work draws inspriation from the rural village where I live and reflects upon the impact, both transient and permanent that we have on our environment. Etched into the architecture, the pavements, even the allotments full of rhubarb and sweet pea around me are the traces of a history connected with nature. My work is a visual celebration of the layers of lives that have gone before and the stories they have left behind; the hands that tended the gardens, the horses who ploughed fields, the birds that sang at sunrise.
Biography
Born in Ireland, Healy grew up in Cork and Oxford and studied Fine Art and Illustration in Dublin. She has received numerous awards for public art commissions, residencies and travel grants and has had a number of artists books published by ignition.ie. Her work is represented in public collections including the Tate Britain, Office of Public Works, Dublin and the National College of Art and Design as well as private collections in Ireland the UK and the USA.