Biography
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.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2024 Reverie, Graphic Studio Gallery, Dublin
2022 Contemporaneity and the Elusive, SO Fine Art Editions, Dublin
2017 Infusions, Graphic Studio Gallery, Dublin
Selected Joint Exhibition
2014 Overworlds, New Works by Ailbhe Barrett & Joan Sugrue, Ennistymon Courthouse Gallery, Co. Clare
Selected Exhibitions
2024 Mór 2024, Graphic Studio Gallery, Dublin
2023 Winter Exhibition, Graphic Studio Gallery, Dublin
2022 & 2021 Royal Ulster Academy, Belfast, Northern Ireland
2022 & 2021 Boyle Arts Festival, Boyle, Roscommon
2021 – 2018 RHA Annual Exhibition, Dublin
2020 Galleri Helle Knusden, Stockholm, Sweden
2016 Bankside Gallery, London
2016 Young II, SO fine Art Editions, Dublin
2016 – 2012 RHA Annual Exhibition, Dublin
2015 – 2013 Summer & Winter Shows, Graphic Studio Gallery, Dublin
2014 Winter Exhibition, SO Fine Art Edition, Dublin
2014 The Act of Portrayal : Selected Artists response to National Portrait Collection, University of Limerick, Limerick
2014 Curated ‘Artists Rooms’ – Michael Canning and Gillian Kenny, Limerick City Gallery of Art, as part of Limerick City of Culture
2014 Synergy, Bourne Vincent Gallery, University of Limerick
2014 12 @ the Hunt, Hunt Museum
2013 The Act of Portrayal, Limerick
2013 A Natural Selection, Graphic Studio Dublin
2012 Belfast Print Exchange
2012 Art Below, London Underground
2011 & 2010 Winter Show, Limerick Printmakers, Limerick
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