Claire Halpin's profile

Name: Claire Halpin

Organisation:

Dun Laoghaire Rathdown Creativity in the Classroom (2010/13) IMMA Artist Panel (2003-2013), Dublin City Council Artists Panel (2011/13), Dun Laoghaire Rathdown Creative Practioners (2009/2013), Visual Artists Ireland, Practice.ie, Association of Iconographers in Ireland.

Region: Dublin

Website: http://clairehalpin2011.wordpress.com/

Member since:2010-04-23

Last online:2011-07-06

Background

Claire Halpin graduated from D.I.T with B.A Honours in Painting and went on to complete her Masters at Gray’s School of Art, Aberdeen, Scotland. Since graduating she has exhibited widely in group exhibitions in Ireland and abroad - most recently at - Artisterium VI, Tbilisi, Georgia 2013, Water Tower Art Fest, Sofia, Bulgaria (2013), Standpoint Gallery, London, UK (2013), Fast Moving Consumer Goods, Talbot Gallery, Dublin, Sculpture in Context, National Botanic Gardens (2013), Dublin, 183nd Royal Hibernian Academy Annual Exhibition, Dublin (2013).

Claire has had a number of solo exhibitions including Reconstructions at Talbot Gallery, Dublin (2011) and Droichead Arts Centre, Drogheda (2012), Tabula Rasa at Cavan County Museum (2011), Anaesthetic Aesthetics at Rua Red South Dublin Arts Centre, Tallaght (2010), Always Now at Talbot Gallery, Dublin (2008), Eidetic Amalgams at Basement Gallery, Dundalk (2006) and solo exhibitions at Triskel Arts Centre, Cork, Model Arts Centre, Sligo. Her paintings are included in many private, public and corporate collections..

As an artist facilitating workshops since 2000, Claire has had the opportunity to work with a range of groups across many age groups from Primary School children through to Second and Third level students, teachers, community groups, intellectual disability groups and older people. These workshops have taken place in a range of settings and contexts including museum gallery based, healthcare, classroom, and community settings.

Professional Organisation

Professional Statement

Through exploring materials and ideas through workshops my aim as an artist is that participants will experiment and become familiar and comfortable with a range of materials developing skills and techniques so that they can explore their own creativity and develop their own unique visual language. I work in a range of materials from 2D painting, drawing, printing, mixed media to 3D, mixed media construction, clay - whatever material is appropriate to the group or to the theme. Facilitating workshops over the last ten years has afforded me valuable experience which I continually evaluate and contributes to the ever unfolding process of creativity and development within the workshops and within my personal practice.

Media and techniques

Primary medium: Painting

Secondary medium: Mixed Media

Creative Context

Primary context: Education

Secondary context: All contexts

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recent projects

Dun Laoghaire Rathdown Creativity in the Classroom

Creative Classrooms - Harold Boys National School, Dalkey