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) and a founder of the Sirius Arts Centre Cobh, Co. Cork 1985 volunteering there until 1999 and working as Visual Arts Curator 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 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 was exhibited at 'Coalescence' the Lavit Gallery Cork 2024; participation in 'Quietly Dispelling the Dark' Arts Council Collection selected by Colm Tóibín, VISUAL, Centre of Contemporary Art, Carlow 2024; participation in 'Residence 3'exhibition Oliver Sears Gallery & Ting Ying Gallery, Cromwell Place, London, UK 2023; Vessels Oliver Sears Gallery Dublin 2022 supported by a Cork County Council Creative Artists Bursary 2022; Build Your Own Horizon/BYOH public participation project Uillinn, West Cork Arts Centre Skibbereen, with Bealtaine Artist in Residence and Cork County Council 2022 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 of paintings, drawings, prose and poetry with poet Derek Mahon (1941-2020) from 2014-20 funded through a Cork County Council Arts Grants Scheme Award 2015 exhibited at Oliver Sears Gallery Dublin 2018 and 2019; Vessels/Research '24/7' online slide show for the National Sculpture Factory, Cork 2020; Vessels was exhibited online at 'The Time of Our Lives' 2020 and 'New & Recent Work' 2021 Oliver Sears Gallery Dublin and 'An Incandescent Connection' studio exhibition in 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 2013 with Helen Horgan, Maximilian Le Cain and Mick O’Shea, catalogue by Danyel Ferrari and Stuart Caughlin of edit+; 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' at 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 both 1996.
Iremonger was Artist in Resident at the Sydney Olympic Park and Broken Hill Art Exchange, Australia 2011; the Von Hess Resident at the Borowsky Centre was visiting artist and exhibited I thought I dreamed of you at Gallery 817 UARTS University of The Arts Philadelphia, USA 2010; I thought I dreamed of you was also exhibited at the West Cork Arts Centre Skibbereen, Co. Cork 2009-10 and travelled to the Yarra Sculpture Gallery Melbourne, Australia 2010.
Awards include 'Bealtaine Artist in Residence' Uillinn, West Cork Arts Centre, Skibbereen, Co. Cork; Cork County Council Arts Grant Scheme Awards 2008, 2015 and 2022; Culture Ireland Awards for exhibitions 2003, 2010 and 2011; Arts Council Agility Award 2022, Bursary Award 2005 and a New Project Award 2002; Artist in Residence Fellowship at the Kunstlerhaus Schloss Wiepersdorf Germany 2003.
Talks include The Lady of the Lake is Hiding in the Expanded Field presented at 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; '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 commissioned by the OPW Office of Public Works for the Northside Civic Centre, Coolock, Dublin 2003; Where’s Me Cork? and Freedom Box video works commissioned for the '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 a children's book both 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 Macedonia 2019.
To view recent work contact Oliver Sears Gallery / +353 (0)1 6449459 / 33 Fitzwilliam St Upper, Dublin 2, Ireland