Claire Kerr

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Biography

1968 Born Wallsend, North Tyneside
1987-90 Magdalen College, Oxford University
1997-99 Wimbledon School of Art
1999-2000 Dún Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology
Lives and works in Dublin


Awards

2012 Golden Fleece Award
2011 Arts Council Bursary (an Chomhairle Ealaíon)
2010 Culture Ireland/Cultúr Éireann
2009 Thomas Dammann Jr Memorial Trust Award
2007 Culture Ireland/Cultúr Éireann
2002 Fergus O’Ryan Memorial Award


Selected public collections

Dept of Education, Ireland
ESB Ireland
OPW Ireland


Selected publications

Dictionary of Living Irish Artists, December 2010
The Plinian Sponge, Maybe? Royal Hibernian Academy exhibition catalogue, February 2008
Claire Kerr, exhibition catalogue, Purdy Hicks Gallery, November 2007
Buyers’ Guide to Irish Art, November 2005
Jerwood Drawing Prize exhibition catalogue, September 2005
Ashford Gallery Emerging Artists’ exhibition catalogue, September 2005


Selected recent media

'Arena', RTE Radio 1, 6 March 2012
'Angels of Perversity', Irish Times, 19 June 2009
'Visual Art to Illuminate and Intrigue', Irish Times, 17 July 2008