Catherine Hehir

     
Catherine Hehir
CIT Crawford College of Art & Design
Cork Printmakers

info@corkprintmakers.ie
www.corkprintmakers.ie


Biography

Catherine Hehir studied at the Crawford College of Art & Design and then in 2002-2004 at University of Ulster where she was awarded Masters of Arts with Distinction.She is a Full member of CP,and is on the Board of Directors .She has participated in Residencies in, Cill Rialigh, AGA Amsterdam, Hangzhou Eastern China, Sydney and was recently selected as the Irish candidate to participate in temporary residency 4 Tasmania in March 2013. Solo exhibitions include Behold, Mezzanine Gallery the National Concert Hall Dublin, Journal of a Soul, the Orpheus building York St Belfast, The Art of Ritual, Limerick Printmakers Gallery ,Water Based, 411 Gallery Hangzhou China. Recent Group Shows include Aether , Town hall Gallery Macroom ,24hrs,Art trail ,Place,Space Wandesford Quay Gallery, Crawford 100, Wandesford Quay GalleryAn Eire of the Senses, Ireland World Expo Pavillion, 411 Galleries,Shanghai ,Excavate at the Cork City Museum, C2 Crawford Art Gallery, Cork. Her work is represented in major collections including the Office of Public Works; Dáil Eireann, Allied Irish Banks and University College Cork. Awards include AHRB research bursary the C P Residency Award and Arts Council Travel Award. Her work encompasses the medium of Print, Installation, Sculpture and Mixed media. She Lectures full time Degree students at the CIT Crawford College of Art and Design Cork.

Exhibition

Trapper 2
Trapper 2 is an imposing 3d construction ( 25 ft in height and 10 ft in width) devised from a collection of nest boxes, cages and swathes of shredded prints. Some of the shredded prints were part of another collaborative project 24 hours where a group of printmaker debated the topic National Interest.This was funded under Art trail. The concept focused on the impermanent , that life is a cycle, and this time of national and global upheaval will also pass, things will mutate, alter and transform.As a result the prints had a 24 hour lifespan before it there were systematically cut in an industrial shredder.