Síomha Callanan is a visual artist based in Cork working in the medium of analogue photography. Her practice centres on in depth explorations of place through the act of walking. With a mindful approach she engages with her surrounding environment; walking, observing and capturing carefully considered fragments as she traverses. Spanning various types of landscape depending on where she is based, the resulting imagery tends to be simplistic, giving a semblance to familiar, everyday details which often go unnoticed.
The residency in the TRISKEL SAMPLE Project Space will grant Síomha time and space to think through projects to date and develop ideas and processes within her practice. During this residency she proposes to engage in a new body of work exploring the island of Cork City Centre and its encompassing channels of the River Lee. She intends to experiment with various analogue cameras, film types and darkroom processes in the creation of this work. The project space will be used as a base from which to research, plan and document her investigations as well as to develop thoughts and experiment with the layout and sequencing of images. She hopes to present her findings in a culminating exhibition.
Síomha Callanan holds a BA (hons) in Fine Art Photography & Lens Based Media from Limerick School of Art and Design (2016) and an MA in Art & Process from MTU Crawford College of Art and Design (2021). In 2025 she exhibited a selection of work in The Grammar of Home – a three person show presented by Sample-Studios in The Lord Mayor’s Pavilion, Cork. She has attended artist residencies in Road Books – Cork (2021), Joya: arte + ecología AiR – Spain (2023) and The Sustainable Darkroom Immersive Workshop – Portugal (2024). Síomha received an Arts Council Agility Award In 2022.
TRISKEL SAMPLE Project Space
TRISKEL SAMPLE Project Space is a partnership between Triskel Arts Centre and Sample-Studios, one of Ireland’s largest artist studios. It provides a developmental project space for visual artists to test ideas, create new work and take risks within a hybrid artist workspace/public exhibition space.
TRISKEL SAMPLE Project Space was established in March 2024. Since then, it has hosted 44 artists who undertook 12 residencies, presented 13 Exhibitions, and facilitated 49 Free Public Events.
Visitors are invited to explore the Project Space and engage with residents’ and their work.
