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Dara Mac Chartaigh

About the member

Dara is a Cork based poet, painter and musician. He loves to delve into the wellspring of deep imagination, continually exploring new and beautiful endeavours. He has performed poetry for Cork Culture Night, and also read at Quay books,
and Cork City library. He is published in Cork Non-fiction Writers’ Group Impromptu Writing 2018 and has also completed a food portraiture poetry collection, Cafe Consensus. He has performed puppetry both on the stage and as part of street theatre. He has puppeteered in the Dragon of Shandon parade. Dara plays the violin and the concertina, while also dabbling with the magic of
cello and the low whistle. He firmly believes that every effort imbues golden experience for the next creation. He is particularly interested in tonality. Currently he is pursuing Bollywood dance, from which he will incorporate new qualities into his creative practice.

Dara
Mac Chartaigh

Through poetry, prose and visual art, I make tangible the ever present wonders of ordinary existence. I seek to convey the tantric, tactile essence of my subjects and of emotive human experience. My art is inventive and exploratory, continuously building upon its foundations. Through novel reimaginings my creative practice is renewed and reinvigorated over evolving iterations. My most pervasive themes are rain, music, food, movement and landscape. Through portraiture, I am currently exploring people, places, animals and the many objects which fill our days.

Dara Mac Chartaigh
Dara Mac Chartaigh