Ailbhe Barrett is an award winning artist, mastering both printmaking and painting. Ailbhe is a self-taught artist who was home schooled in her native county Limerick until she was eighteen. From there Ailbhe took up painting full time, under guidance from artists and art professionals. As a landscape painter working mainly in oils, she developed a liking for the scope of the large canvas from a young age. At a later stage she studied printmaking in Limerick Printmakers and Graphic Studio Dublin and continues creating work in both paint and print, constantly exploring the relationship between both.

Awards

Arts Council Agility Award, 2021
RHA “Really Helping Artists” grant 2020
Centre Culturel D’Irlandais, Residency 2019
ESB Keating Medal and Award, RHA Annual Exhibition 2018
Behaviour and Attitudes annual Commission, 2018

Solo Exhibitions

“Contemporaneity and the Elusive”
--SO Gallery Dublin, September 2022
-- Hyde Bridge Gallery, Sligo May 2023
“Infusions” Graphic Studio Gallery, Dublin, 2017;

Joint Exhibition

“Overworlds” - New Paintings, Ailbhe Barrett and Joan Sugrue, Ennistymon Courthouse Gallery, Co. Clare, 2014

Recent Selected Exhibitions

Kwaidan - Encounters with Lafcadio Hearn
-- Galerie Aube, Kyoto University of The Arts, Japan 2024
-- The Ballinglen Museum of Art, Mayo 2024
Unlimiting the Edition, The Library Project, Dublin 2024
Royal Hibernian Academy Annual: 2012, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2018(invited), 2019, 2021 (invited), 2022, 2023
Royal Ulster Academy 2021, 2022
Galleri Helle Knusden, Stockholm, Feb 2020
Royal Academy Summer exhibition, London 2019, 2020
Boyle Arts Festival (invited) 2019, 2022
Bankside Gallery London 2016
SO Gallery: various, 2014-2021
“Synergy”: Bourne Vincent Gallery, University of Limerick, 2014
“12 at the Hunt”: Hunt Museum, Limerick 2014
“The Act of Portrayal”: Selected Artists response to National Self Portrait Collection, University of Limerick, 2014

Collections

Northern Ireland Arts Council
National Gallery of Ireland
Office of Public Works
Museum of Literature Ireland
British Library
Trinity College Dublin
National Botanical Gardens
Behaviour and Attitudes
Various Private and corporate collections

Other

Project co-ordinator, Graphic Studio Dublin at 60, RHA Dublin, curated by Eithne Jordan RHA.
Served on Board of Directors, Graphic Studio Dublin: 2017-2020
Robert Blackburn Studio, Manhattan, New York, 2017
Curated “Artists Rooms”, (Michael Canning and Gillian Kenny), Limerick City of Culture 2014
Project Manager, “Synergy” University of Limerick, 2014, Limerick City of Culture

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