CV Janruay 2022
DEIRDRE ROBB
Deirdre Robb | Flax Studios | High Street |Belfast | | e-mail: drobbartist@hotmail.com | http://www.deirdrerobb.org
DOB: 21 01 1964
Place of Birth: Belfast
Education
2019 Postgraduate Executive leadership, Ulster University
2000-2002 Masters in Applied Art, Ulster University
1999-2000 Postgraduate Diploma, Commendation, Ulster University
1996-1999 BA (Hons) Fine & applied Art, 2:1
Bursaries/Awards/Residencies
2021 ACNI, support for individual award
2020 ACNI, support for individual Award, Freelands Award
2019 ACNI, support for individual award
2013 Grundvig, support for individual research award
Engage, residency in Padua, Italy
2011 DD Award, Northern Ireland Tourist Board
Artist in Residence, Kilcooley Women’s Centre, Bangor
2007 Artist Residency, Tyrone Guthrie Bursary, Monaghan
2005 Residency, Windows on the World, Water Tower, Louisville
2004 Grasses, Artopia, Kentucky USA
2002 Millennium Award, NIVT/Lottery, Grasses Project
Laganside Arts Award, lagan Weir
2001 ACNI, Individual Artists Award,
ACNI, Travel award
2000 Arts & Humanities, British Academy Award
1999 European SF Award
Tyrone Guthrie Bursary, Annamakerigh, Belfast City Council
Collections/Commissions
National University of Ireland, Galway,
Siena, Institute of Contemporary art, drawings, Italy,
Stormont Castle, Prints, Dundonald,
La Mon House Hotel, Wall hanging, Rose lawn,
Kirkingston Primary School, Wall hanging, Castlewellan
The Engine Room Gallery, Sculpture/Photographs, Belfast,
University of Ulster, Photographs, York Street,
The Bridge, Contemporary Prints of East Belfast, Albertbridge,
Private Collections/Commissions, Britain, Ireland and the USA
Public Art
2017 NYF Resolution Tree, Dublin
2016 Starlings, façade Bryson Street Surgery
Wish Tree Forest, Connswater Shopping Centre
2014/15 Wish Project, 6 temp public interventions in Belfast
2013 Chevy in the Hole, installation, Flint Michigan
2012 Scenic World, Sculpture installation, Australia
Urban Meadows, mural 155 N’ards Rd Belfast
Dove of peace St Mathews, Belfast
Art Flag Bunting, Installation, CEX +Connswater centre
2011 Art in the Eastside II, large-scale billboard project
I am Woman, Kilcooley Bangor, and wall hanging
2010 Hewitt in the Frame, Peace Wall Shankill, 100ft long artwork
Art in the Eastside, Artist, Billboard project, East Belfast
2009 If walls Could Talk- Peace Wall Art, archivist, publication
2008 Hollywood Arches Integrated Arts Project, M media
2007 Mount Vernon Centre, Artist, 13 steps Public Art project
2004 Our Patch, Artist, Public Art Publication
2003 Tomorrow’s Faces, Artist, East Belfast, Public Sculpture
Forthcoming
International Artists’ Meeting: Antonio Gotovac Lauer, Štaglinec
Exhibitions
Solo
2023 Flowerfield Arts Centre
2021 Arts For All, Cityside
2010 Blue, Installations, Sculpture Engine Room Gallery2021
2009 City, Creative Exchange
2003 Sensory Perceptions, Waiting Room Gallery, Belfast
2001 A sense Of Place, Engine Room Gallery, Belfast
1999 Spacious Forms, Clotsworthy House, Antrim
Selected group
2022 CCA, Melbourne, Belfast Exposed
2021 Photographer Gallery,
2019 Elements, Blackstaff Mill
2017 Art in the Eastside, Billboard exhibition
2016 Luciano Benetton, Imago Mundi, Irish collection International Touring
20/20 Creative Exchange Anniversary exhibition
Bebeyond monthly performance, Portview Trade Centre, Belfast
Art in the Eastside, Billboard exhibition, Newtownards Road
2015 Degrees of Separation, Eastside Arts Festival
Home, Creative Exchange, Belfast
2014 Passion For Freedom Festival, London
LACDA, Los Angeles, Digital Print exhibition
Art in The Eastside, large scale Billboard project, Belfast
Wish bush, East Belfast Arts festival, Orangefield
Set Go, Digital Art exhibition
2013 Echoes, 2 man show, Creative Exchange Belfast
Art in the Eastside, Engine Room Gallery, Belfast
Passion for freedom Festival, International festival London
Art Flag Bunting, Free City international Art festival, Michigan, USA
Glorious Freaks, National University of Ireland, Galway
2012 Cex in the City, 2-woman exhibition, BF at Queens
Art in the Eastside III, Billboard project Belfast
Scenic World, Sculpture Exhibition, Australia
Titanic Exhibition, Belfast, Southampton,
2011 Art in the Eastside, Portview Trade Centre
Siena, Institute of Contemporary art, drawings, Italy
Cex in the City, 2 woman exhibition, CEX gallery
Urban Matters, 2 woman exhibition, CEX gallery
Summer Show, Engine Room Gallery
2010 Art in the East Side, Billboard project
Compositions, Waterfront Hall, Gallery 1
2009 Exchanging Spaces, CEX Gallery
BODY, Engine Room Gallery,
2008 Northern Light, Eastern Star, Hedge Gallery, LaBocca, Belfast
BODY – University of Ulster Gallery,
2007 Belfast Print Workshop Members exhibition
Creative Exchange Group Exhibition, Hedge Gallery
Arterial Routes, PLACE Gallery
Mill Contemporary Views Installation ERG & Space Gallery
East Belfast, Transitions, Public Art, Holywood Arches HC
2006 Transart– Metro Buses exhibition n the world, Waterfront, spring
2005 Windows on The World International, Kentucky, USA
Seven, Gallery 24, group exhibition, Berlin
At Your Own Risk, Space Studios Creative Exchange
What’s love got to do with it, Hedge Gallery
2004 Christmas exhibition, Engine Room Gallery
Works in Progress, Engine Room Gallery
Here and Now, Creative Exchange, Engine Room Gallery
Encompass Ardgillian Castle, Dublin International Exhibition
Refined Views, Tile Refinery Gallery
Drawing Conclusions, Waterfront Hall
In It There Is, Waterfront Hall
2003 Inaugural exhibition, Hedge Gallery
Sensory Perceptions, Waiting Room Gallery
Visual perceptions, Engine Room gallery
Connections, Creative Exchange, November, Waterfront
Links That Connect Us, Waterfront Hall
4 Fields of Reference, Lagan Weir
Grasses, Artopia Art Centre, Louisville, USA
Watch this Space, Engine Room Gallery
Five Degrees East, Trace Contemporary Art Gallery
2001 Millworks II, Engine Room Gallery
Creative Exchange International, Bank One gallery, LV, USA
Placed, A Three Women Exhibition, Galway
2000 State Of The Art, Millennium, Engine Room Gallery
Extracts,Orchard Gallery, Derry
Consequences, Drawing Exhibition, Belfast/Coleraine
Observations II, Ulster Hospital, Dondonald. Artscare
Creative Exchange, Tank Gallery
A place in art, 5 Women Show, ERG
1999 Passing On, Hector Street, Belfast
Absence is Presence, University of Ulster
Millworks, Engine Room Gallery
1998 Textile Art In Focus, ERG
Collectives, Golden Thread Gallery
Triple Perspective, La Mon House Hotel
Observations, Ulster Hospital, Dundonald, Artscare
1997 Creative Exchange Small works, Queen’s Festival
Walk Don’t Run, Linenhall Works
Windows on the World, Koningshot, Holland
Organisations/Membership
2021-present Flax Art Studios
2006–2016 Creative Exchange, (Chairperson.1999-2004- Director /member)
2011-2012 East Belfast Arts Festival
1998-present East Belfast Artist Collective, ((member, Board, Engine Room)
1999-2004 Northern Ireland Visual Arts Forum (Deputy Chairperson)
2000- 2004 East Belfast Arts & Culture Group (member)
2002- 2006 Greengrass/Bluegrass/NewGrass (Board)
2003-2004 New Belfast Community Arts CAF (Board)
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