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Ciara Rodgers

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About the member

Ciara Rodgers is a visual artist based between Cork City and Waterford City. She obtained an MA in Art & Process at MTU Crawford College of Art & Design with first class honours for her research thesis and subsequent MA group exhibition ‘Memories of a Nervous System’ (2018). An eight-year studio licence holder at Backwater Artists Group, she received a Visual Art Bursary from the Arts Council of Ireland in 2020 and an Agility Award in 2021.

Exhibitions include: Folly | Façade (Solo) GOMA Waterford, 2024; Green Mouth (Solo) performance commission , SIRIUS, Cork 2023; a city of beautiful nonsense (Solo), Studio 12, Cork; ATLAS DEL ARTE ESPAÑOL, O Vello Cárcere de Lugo, Spain 2021;  Monuments II(Solo) Garter Lane, Waterford, 2020; ArtSevilla 2019|Bauhaus, Seville, Spain, 2019; Monuments of Abandoned Futures (Solo), LHQ Gallery, Cork County Council, 2019.

Rodgers is currently lecturing in Art History and Studio based modules on the BA (hons) Visual Art programme at SETU Waterford where her research areas include: Identity, Space, Place and Architecture. She is also undertaking a practice as research PhD.

Exhibitions

2025

  • Lavit Gallery Winter Exhibition, Cork City, 1st Nov 2024- 17th Jan 2025

2024

  • Folly | Façade (SOLO), Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA), Waterford June 2024
  • Deep Time, Cork Harbour Festival, Spike Island June 2024 Page/Process/Proceed, Studio 12, BAG, Cork April 2024 Caboodle Print Collective, Studio 12, Backwater Artists Group, Wandesford Quay, 1 January – 28 January

2023

  • GOMA 7th Annual Members Exhibition, Waterford, IE,
  • Small Things Like These, LHQ Gallery, Cork County Council, IE
  • Place in Motion, Uilleann Arts Centre, Skibbereen, West Cork, IE
  • Urban | Field (DUO), Ciara Rodgers & Fiona Kelly, Cork Printmakers Studio Gallery, Cork, IE
  • Drawbridge Podcast Launch Exhibition (GROUP), MTU Gallery, Cork, IE Associative Relations; Celebrating 10 years of MA: Art & Process Studio 12, Backwater Artists Group, Cork, IE,
  • Green Mouth (SOLO), performance, SIRIUS, Cobh, Cork, IE
  • Come What May, (GROUP), LIVESTOCK performance art platform, MART, Dublin, IE, curated by Day Magee
  • Cork Printmakers Members Exhibition Lavit Gallery, Cork, IE OBSERVATORIO INTERIOR (DUO), Alba Cortès & Ciara Rodgers, MTU Gallery at 46 Grand Parade, Cork IE

2022

  • a city of beautiful nonsense (SOLO), Studio 12, Backwater Artists, Cork.
  • 192nd RHA Annual Exhibition, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin
  • The Courthouse Gallery and Studios Summer Open Co. Clare, IE
  • C L O S E R (GROUP), Backwater Artists, Lavit Gallery, Cork, IE, Curated by Janice Hough (IMMA)

2021

  • I half remember that…” (DUO), Brían Crotty and Ciara Rodgers MSA gallery space, Co. Cork, IE
  • ATLAS DEL ARTE ESPAÑOL O Vello Cárcere de Lugo, ES, Curated by Aitor Martinez (Museo Reine Sofia)

2021

  • Blue House Gallery Artists Summer Show Schull, West Cork, IE

Ciara
Rodgers

Rooted in psychogeography and my embodied experiences of walking through urban landscapes, my practice examines the contradictions and fragilities inherent in the urban spectacle. This approach informs a multidisciplinary practice that encompasses expanded drawing, installation, photography, and performance. My process is influenced by the self-determination and resourcefulness of historical artistic movements such as Arte Povera, The Situationist International, and the D.I.Y. ethos of Punk music.

Using playful colour schemes and uncanny pairings of materials, my research bridges theory and practice. I aim to create subtle contradictions that challenge conventional notions of space, form, and beauty. By juxtaposing architectural elegance with overlooked or undesirable territories and themes, my work questions societal hierarchies and invites viewers to reconsider their relationship with the built environment, offering a space for critical reflection and discovery.

Ciara Rodgers
I try to cram her back in my mouth
2024
Ciara Rodgers
Did you think I was a puppet on strings? Wind her up and this honeybee sings
2024
Ciara Rodgers
A fake behind the fear (I turn around and back track, because I ain’t that tough)
2024
Ciara Rodgers
How are you so burned when you’re barely on fire?
2024

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