Image Desert Union at 'Worlds End' detail 2011
Photograph printed on hahnemuhle photographic paper
21 x 30 cm
Sarah Iremonger was born in Dublin (1965) lives and works in Kinsale Co. Cork, Ireland; Board Member of the Lavit Gallery, Cork 2023-; member of 'RedInk' Neurodivergent Artists Support Group, 2022-; Board Member of the Backwater Artists Group, Cork, 2003-09 (Chair 2006-09); a founder of the Sirius Arts Centre Cobh, Co. Cork, 1985 volunteering until 1999 and working as Visual Arts Curator, Program and Project Manager and Artists Liaison, 1999-2015; Iremonger studied Pre-diploma and Fine Art at the National College of Art and Design, Dublin, 1983-85; Fine Art Printmaking and Photography at the Crawford College of Art and Design, Cork, 1985-87 and an MA in European Fine Art at the Winchester School of Art, Southampton University, UK, 1998.
Recent work includes a collaboration with 'RECOMP:OST' for Hong Kong Community Radio, 2025; participation in the exhibition 'From the Land' at the John Martin Gallery, London, UK, with Oliver Sears Gallery, 2025; drawings from the Horizons series transformed into 3-D digital landscapes presented at the '2nd Symposium on Digital Art in Ireland' UCC University College Cork, 2024; Vessels and Horizons work exhibited at 'Coalescence' the Lavit Gallery, Cork, 2024; participation in 'Quietly Dispelling the Dark' Arts Council Collection exhibition selected by Colm Tóibín, VISUAL, Centre of Contemporary Art, Carlow, 2024; participation in 'Residence 3' exhibition with Oliver Sears Gallery & Ting Ying Gallery, Cromwell Place, London, UK, 2023; Vessels exhibition at Oliver Sears Gallery, Dublin, supported by a Cork County Council Creative Artists Bursary, 2022; Build Your Own Horizon/BYOH public participation project Uillinn, West Cork Arts Centre Skibbereen, for Bealtaine Artist in Residence and Cork County Council exhibited at 'Re:Group - Fragments in Constellation' Skibbereen Arts Festival, 2022; The Hunting Box Party was exhibited at 'Change Hunters Hide' Emmanuel Walderdorff Galerie, Hofgut Molsberg, Westerwald, Germany, 2021.
Horizons collaborative project with poet Derek Mahon (1941-2020) 2014-24, was funded through a Cork County Council Arts Grants Scheme Award, 2015 and exhibited at Oliver Sears Gallery Dublin, 2018 and 2019; Vessels/Research '24/7' online slide show for the National Sculpture Factory, Cork, 2020; Vessels 'The Time of Our Lives' 2020 and 'New & Recent Work' 2021 on line exhibitions with Oliver Sears Gallery, Dublin and 'An Incandescent Connection' studio exhibition, Kinsale, Co. Cork, 2021; Top Half of the Hero neon work, part of the Crawford collection was exhibited at 'Heroes and Villains' Crawford Art Gallery, Cork, 2018-19.
Other exhibitions include the '184th RHA Royal Hibernian Academy's Annual Exhibition' 2014 (invited artist); 'World View of An Oyster' curated for Cork County Council and Macroom Town Council with Helen Horgan, Maximilian Le Cain and Mick O’Shea, catalogue essay by Danyel Ferrari and designed by Stuart Caughlin of edit+ 2013; other curatorial projects include 'Sub-plots' for allerArt Bludenz, Austria, 2011 and Sirius Arts Centre Cobh, Co. Cork, 2012 and the 'Cork Harbour Project' Sirius Arts Centre, 2007-09.
The Hunting Box Party was exhibited at 'Hochstitze (Raised Hides)' Knoll Gallery, Vienna, Austria, 2010 and Budapest, Hungary, 2011, 'Buffer Zone' at The Armory Gallery, Sydney Olympic Stadium, Australia, 2011 and 'Change - Hunters Hide' Emmanuel Walderdorff Galerie, Hofgut Molsberg, Westerwald, Germany, 2021; earlier exhibitions include Temple Bar Gallery and Studios, Dublin, 2001 and the Turku Art Museum, Finland, 2003 with Lumpy Art History; 'L’Imaginaire Irlandais' at Villesalem Abbey in association with Le Confort Moderne, Poitiers, France and Cork Paintings exhibited at the John David Mooney Foundation, Chicago, USA, 1996.
Iremonger was Artist in Resident at the Sydney Olympic Park and Broken Hill Art Exchange, Australia, 2011; Von Hess Resident at the Borowsky Centre exhibiting I thought I dreamed of you at Gallery 817 UARTS University of The Arts Philadelphia, USA, 2010; I thought I dreamed of you exhibited at the West Cork Arts Centre, Skibbereen, Co. Cork, 2009-10 and the Yarra Sculpture Gallery, Melbourne, Australia, 2010.
Awards include 'Bealtaine Artist in Residence' Uillinn, West Cork Arts Centre, Skibbereen, Co. Cork, 2022; Cork County Council Arts Grant Scheme Awards 2022, 2015 and 2008; Culture Ireland Awards for exhibitions in 2011, 2010, 2003, 1998 and 1995; Arts Council of Ireland, Agility Award 2022, Bursary Award 2005 and New Project Award 2002; Artist in Residence Fellowship at the Kunstlerhaus Schloss Wiepersdorf, Germany, 2003.
Papers include The Lady of the Lake is Hiding in the Expanded Field for the '2nd Symposium on Digital Art in Ireland' UCC, University College Cork and Sample Studios, Cork, 2024; Space-Time: Horizons, Atlantis and A Rain Bridge for 'Art Poetique' in Memorium Derek Mahon (Study Day) Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris, France, 2022; Floating Above the Horizon for the 'Derek Mahon 80th Birthday Celebration Conference' Trinity College, Dublin, 2021 and 'Artists of Cobh and Great Island' as part of 'This Must Be the Place' Sirius Arts Centre, Cobh, Co. Cork, 2018.
Commissions include Upside-down Mountains neon installation and painted mural for the OPW Office of Public Works at the Northside Civic Centre, Coolock, Dublin, 2003 and Where’s Me Cork? and Freedom Box video works for 'Airgador - Cork Silver and Gold' exhibition, Crawford Art Gallery, Cork, for the European City of Culture Cork, 2005.
Iremonger illustrated 'Atlantis' poetry pamphlet by Derek Mahon, 2019 and 'The Rain Bridge' children's book published by The Gallery Press 2017 - "a story written by Derek Mahon for his son, then aged six, a tale of loss, kindness and recovery. Iremonger’s illustrations match, in their simplicity, the purity of the author’s style." (Peter Fallon 2017); 'IL Ponte Della Pioggia' was published in Italian by Valigie Rosse, Italy 2018 and in Macedonia 2019.
To view recent work, contact Oliver Sears Gallery / +353 (0)1 6449459 / 33 Fitzwilliam St Upper, Dublin 2, Ireland
Sarah Iremonger 2025