Suzanne Carroll graduated from DIFE in 2016 after completing the Art, Craft and Design Portfolio course. She achieved the highest grade for her portfolio from NCAD that we have ever had! Suzanne is an exceptional artist and designer and it has been an absolute pleasure to follow her progression through NCAD and beyond!
Her recent exhibition: Barnavave-Tread Softly featured recently in an Irish Independent article. Suzanne took to the mountains for this exhibition which took place within the walls of a deserted village in the Cooley Peninsula.
This outdoor gallery experience was built on last year’s Mending Fences exhibition held on the hillside in the Cooley mountains. In collaboration with curator Shannon Carroll they invited eight artists from across the country to make work in response to this year’s intriguing site. In line with the exhibition title Barnavave -Tread Softly artists were encouraged to consider their materials and processes in relation to the environment when making work. The intention was to install the work for one-day-only within the dry stone walls of the Deserted Village on Barnavave Mountain, Carlingford.
‘As stewards of this planet we are each becoming more aware of how every action we take can affect the crisis we find ourselves in. By raising awareness and prompting discussion on pertinent issues artists and the art they make can encourage us to reflect for a moment, to consider the small or even radical changes we might make in our daily lives.’
How we respond to our environment is of paramount importance and artists and designers have a vital role to play is how they address these issues. This has been the trend in colleges of Art and Design for some time and the more it is explored the better for future generations. Designers are the innovators of the future and artists can inform others through their work.
Suzanne brought together eight artists of varying disciplines to respond to her brief and presented work using low impact environmentally friendly processes and techniques. What was wonderful for us to see that one of the eight artists she invited to collaborate with was also a former DIFE graduate, Una Curley! Una works with textiles and found materials and explores the face pace of consumption and subsequent waste. http://unacurley.com/
We wish Suzanne the very best with her next project as she is surely one to watch in the Irish Art scene!
| Suzanne Carroll Visual Artist |
| Phone: 00353877825443 | www.suzannecarrollart.com |
| suzanne.carroll.art@gmail.com |
| Ravensdale, Dundalk, Co Louth, Ireland |
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