Kevin Mooney is an Irish artist based in Sample-Studios, Cork. His recent solo exhibition, The Erlish Tide, was held in the Excel Gallery, Tipperary in 2021 and was supported by The Arts Council of Ireland Commissions Award. Previous exhibitions include Mutators, MART Gallery, Dublin and Sample-studios, Cork, (solo), 2022, Pines Eye, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, 2020, EVA International, Limerick, 2018, The Law Is a White Dog, Tulca Festival, Galway, 2020, Fragments of San Borondon, Triskel Arts Centre, 2019, (Solo), Everything Is In Everything, Sirius Arts Centre, Cobh, 2019, Apparition, Sternview Gallery, 2018, (Solo), Seeing Things, Artbox Projects, Dublin, 2017,(Solo), Twilight Head Cult, Ormston House, Limerick, 2016, (Solo), What Is and What Might Be, Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda, 2015, Making Familiar, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin, 2012, and Wave, Pallas Projects, 2014(Solo).
Kevin graduated with an MFA from NCAD in 2012. Since then, he has received several Visual Arts Bursaries from The Arts Council. His work is held in various private and public collections in Ireland and abroad, including Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda, The OPW, The Arts Council of Ireland and Galway City Council.
Sarah Kelleher is an independent arts writer, curator, and Government of Ireland scholar currently finishing her PhD on contemporary Irish sculpture with the History of Art Department in UCC. She has published widely, including exhibition texts for the Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin, the Irish Museum of Modern Art, the Limerick City Gallery, as well as for the Ulterior Gallery in New York and Domo Baal Gallery in London. She has also published journal articles on Japanese post war photography and dada sculpture and performance. Sarah nurtures an independent curatorial practice and has co-curated the exhibitions Rachel Fallon’s The Mother City project (2022); Padraig Spillane’s define silver lining (2022); Jessica Akerman’s Cork Caryatids (2021) and Alice Maher: Vox Materia (2018). As co-founder of Pluck Projects, an independent curatorial venture, along with Dr. Rachel Warriner, Sarah is organising a series of symposia on Irish Art for the RHA in Dublin.
