Fiona Cawley was born in Co. Sligo, she grew up in Ballina Co. Mayo and now lives in Kinvara Co. Galway.
In 2015 she graduated with a BA Art and Design Degree (Distinction) from the Centre for Creative Arts and Media, GMIT and was awarded a GMIT Academic Achievement Award.
As an emerging artist she recently had a solo show in the Ballina Arts Centre called "A Shared Space", she has been selected for exhibitions such as Cairde Visual, shortlisted for the Royal Academy of Art Summer Show 2018, was an invited artist at King House, Boyle Arts Festival in "Gathering" 2018, "Facing West" 2017 by curator Paul McKenna and invited to exhibit a Solo Show "GardenLand" in the Arts Corridor, University Hospital Galway (Arts Trust) in 2018.
Fiona Cawley is an expressive painter who is passionate about the physical act of paint application and the relationship between colours and gestural brush strokes often varying the application of thin and thick paint. The work is an emotional response to the landscape which may initially start as abstracted depictions spontaneously painted with usually no planned, preliminary work done beforehand. She allows the paint to dictate the beginning of each painting and uses her imagination when it comes to the subject matter. In recent work there has been a running theme of the sharing of the landscape with animals and the effect of the man-made on the environment. She is currently working on a new body of work
In 2015 she graduated with a BA Art and Design Degree (Distinction) from the Centre for Creative Arts and Media, GMIT and was awarded a GMIT Academic Achievement Award.
As an emerging artist she recently had a solo show in the Ballina Arts Centre called "A Shared Space", she has been selected for exhibitions such as Cairde Visual, shortlisted for the Royal Academy of Art Summer Show 2018, was an invited artist at King House, Boyle Arts Festival in "Gathering" 2018, "Facing West" 2017 by curator Paul McKenna and invited to exhibit a Solo Show "GardenLand" in the Arts Corridor, University Hospital Galway (Arts Trust) in 2018.
Fiona Cawley is an expressive painter who is passionate about the physical act of paint application and the relationship between colours and gestural brush strokes often varying the application of thin and thick paint. The work is an emotional response to the landscape which may initially start as abstracted depictions spontaneously painted with usually no planned, preliminary work done beforehand. She allows the paint to dictate the beginning of each painting and uses her imagination when it comes to the subject matter. In recent work there has been a running theme of the sharing of the landscape with animals and the effect of the man-made on the environment. She is currently working on a new body of work
EDUCATION
BA Art and Design (Distiction) 2015, Centre for Creative Arts and Media, GMIT, Galway.
AWARDS
GMIT Academic Achievement Award 2015.
RESIDENCIES
Heinrich Böll Artist residency, Achill 2020.
COLLECTIONS
The Ice House Art Collection, Ballina , Co. Mayo.
E X H I B I T I O N S
Upcoming.. 2024 Oct. 4th-Nov 22, Europe In the heart of Ireland, Europa Gallery, EU Parliament Offices, Dublin.
2024,30 Nov - 25 JAN, Europe In The Heart Of Ireland, Hamilton Gallery, Sligo.
2024 Lines of the Land, An Chéad Tine, Kilkenny (selected by Eamon Coleman)
2023 ‘The Feeling Of Place’, (Two Person Show) she was invited along with artist Hilary Morley to do a two person show in the Oughterard Courthouse Gallery.
SOLO SHOWS
2020 "A Shared Space" Ballina Arts Centre 7th of March until April 25th.
2018 "Gardenland", University Hospital Galway in association with the hospital's Arts Trust 2-29th November.
2016 The Secret Garden Gallery, Kinvara, Co. Galway 1-30th April.
2014 Woodford Library , East Galway Library Art Trail, 15 April -1st May.
2022
Summer Open Exhibition, Courthouse Gallery, Ennistymon, Co. Clare, 20th June - 25th June.
Cairde Visual '22, Hamilton Gallery, Sligo, July 2-July 29th.
Fox's of Kinvara, Fiona Cawley, an Exhibition, July 27th-18th August.
2021
Mayo Artists Show, Ballina Arts Centre, Ballina, Co. Mayo, Dec. 3rd - January 15th 2022.
2020
"Winter Open Exhibition", The Courthouse Gallery, Ennistymon, Co. Clare, 14th Dec. to 14th January.
"Staying Local" Group Show, Anton's, Galway City, December.
“A Shared Space” solo show Ballina Arts Centre March7th-April 25th
"Terrain" three person show, The Courthouse Gallery, Westport, Co. Mayo Aug. 20th-Sept. 13th 2020
2019
Brittle/Fragile, Westival 2019.
Portraits, Kinvara Area Visual Artists,The Courthouse, Kinvara,August.
Cairde Visual 2019.
"Earth Matters" Group Show, The Courthouse, Kinvara, April 17-28
"Wild Atlantic Winter" Group Show, KAVA, Kinvara, Jan 2018-March 2019
2018
"Gardenland" Solo Show, Arts Corridor, University Hospital Galway, Arts Trust, 2nd Nov.-29th Nov.
Small Towns Big Ideas, Smart Arts Kinvara, The Courthouse, Kinvara, 30th Oct.-11th Nov.
"Windows" KAVA Members Show, Main St. Kinvara 10th-19th August.
Invited Artist "Gathering", 29th Boyle Arts Festival, King House, Boyle Co. Roscommon 19th July - 26th August.
"Art For Change" 126 Artists Run Gallery, Galway. 16th- 20th May.
"Cloud Cuckooland" Kinvara Area Visual Artist's members show, The Courthouse Gallery, Kinvara. 26th April-6th of May
Invited artist "From Land and Sea", Group show, Joan Clancy Gallery, Dungarvan, Co. Waterford 13-22 April.
"Daughter of the Dagda" Arts Millennium Building, NUIG , Galway 6th -30th April.
"We Borrow Freedom" Winter Exhibition in Hambly and Hambly Gallery, Dunbar House, Enniskillen opening 15th of December - 3rd Feb
2017
KAVA Annual Member's Show, The Courthouse, Kinvara, Co. Galway,8th December-10th December.
A5 Art Fair, Galway Arts Centre December 1st-5th December.
"We Borrow Freedom" Winter Exhibition at Hambly and Hambly Gallery, Enniskillen curated by Dr, Helen Sharp. December 15.
KAVA Annual Member's Exhibition, The Courthouse, Kinvara 18th-27th August.
"Facing West" King House, Boyle, Boyle Arts Festival 20th July-18th August.
"Perspectives 11", Ballina Arts Centre, Balina Civic Office's Gallery 7-21st July.
Daughter of The Dagda, Group exhibition, The Courthouse, Kinvara, 1st-12 February.
Strule Arts Centre, Omagh 26 January (opening at 7-9pm) - 11 February 2017 1FT SQ (Exhibition tours sequentially to Strule from The Higher Bridges Gallery)
Trasna VI, The Court house Gallery, Ennytymon – 12th January 2017.
2016
The Higher Bridges Gallery, Enniskillen !FT SQ Exhibition 16 Dec-21 Jan 2017
Trasna VI, The Court house Gallery, Ennytymon,from 9th December 2016 – 12th January 2017.
KAVA, The Courthouse Gallery, Kinvara 2-4 Dec.
126 Artist Run Gallery, Galway Affordable Art Exhibition, Octobber.
KAVA Membership Show August 2016.
Cairde Visual 2016, The Hyde Bridge Gallery, Yeats Memorial Building, Sligo.
Solo Exhibition,The Secret gallery Kinvara, Co. Galway 2-30th of April
2015
Design Network West, Galway 20/20 Gallery, Galway City, December.
Design Network West, Galway 20/20 Gallery, Galway City, September.
KAVA (Kinvara Area Visual Artists) Courthouse Gallery Exhibition.
Graduate Degree Show 2015 GMIT, Center for Creative Arts and Media.
KAVA Exhibition, Gort Library .
2014
KAVA (Kinvara Area Visual Artists) Winter Collection Exhibition, The Russell Gallery.
The Maltings Gallery,Birr Vintage Festival Open Exhibition.
Gallery Revival, Contemporary Irish Landscape Exhibition.
Galway Fringe Festival Open exhibition.
Solo Exhibition 2014
Woodford Library , East Galway Library Art Trail .
2013
Gmit Proximity Exhibition 2013.
2012
126 Membership Show 2012.
BA Art and Design (Distiction) 2015, Centre for Creative Arts and Media, GMIT, Galway.
AWARDS
GMIT Academic Achievement Award 2015.
RESIDENCIES
Heinrich Böll Artist residency, Achill 2020.
COLLECTIONS
The Ice House Art Collection, Ballina , Co. Mayo.
E X H I B I T I O N S
Upcoming.. 2024 Oct. 4th-Nov 22, Europe In the heart of Ireland, Europa Gallery, EU Parliament Offices, Dublin.
2024,30 Nov - 25 JAN, Europe In The Heart Of Ireland, Hamilton Gallery, Sligo.
2024 Lines of the Land, An Chéad Tine, Kilkenny (selected by Eamon Coleman)
2023 ‘The Feeling Of Place’, (Two Person Show) she was invited along with artist Hilary Morley to do a two person show in the Oughterard Courthouse Gallery.
SOLO SHOWS
2020 "A Shared Space" Ballina Arts Centre 7th of March until April 25th.
2018 "Gardenland", University Hospital Galway in association with the hospital's Arts Trust 2-29th November.
2016 The Secret Garden Gallery, Kinvara, Co. Galway 1-30th April.
2014 Woodford Library , East Galway Library Art Trail, 15 April -1st May.
2022
Summer Open Exhibition, Courthouse Gallery, Ennistymon, Co. Clare, 20th June - 25th June.
Cairde Visual '22, Hamilton Gallery, Sligo, July 2-July 29th.
Fox's of Kinvara, Fiona Cawley, an Exhibition, July 27th-18th August.
2021
Mayo Artists Show, Ballina Arts Centre, Ballina, Co. Mayo, Dec. 3rd - January 15th 2022.
2020
"Winter Open Exhibition", The Courthouse Gallery, Ennistymon, Co. Clare, 14th Dec. to 14th January.
"Staying Local" Group Show, Anton's, Galway City, December.
“A Shared Space” solo show Ballina Arts Centre March7th-April 25th
"Terrain" three person show, The Courthouse Gallery, Westport, Co. Mayo Aug. 20th-Sept. 13th 2020
2019
Brittle/Fragile, Westival 2019.
Portraits, Kinvara Area Visual Artists,The Courthouse, Kinvara,August.
Cairde Visual 2019.
"Earth Matters" Group Show, The Courthouse, Kinvara, April 17-28
"Wild Atlantic Winter" Group Show, KAVA, Kinvara, Jan 2018-March 2019
2018
"Gardenland" Solo Show, Arts Corridor, University Hospital Galway, Arts Trust, 2nd Nov.-29th Nov.
Small Towns Big Ideas, Smart Arts Kinvara, The Courthouse, Kinvara, 30th Oct.-11th Nov.
"Windows" KAVA Members Show, Main St. Kinvara 10th-19th August.
Invited Artist "Gathering", 29th Boyle Arts Festival, King House, Boyle Co. Roscommon 19th July - 26th August.
"Art For Change" 126 Artists Run Gallery, Galway. 16th- 20th May.
"Cloud Cuckooland" Kinvara Area Visual Artist's members show, The Courthouse Gallery, Kinvara. 26th April-6th of May
Invited artist "From Land and Sea", Group show, Joan Clancy Gallery, Dungarvan, Co. Waterford 13-22 April.
"Daughter of the Dagda" Arts Millennium Building, NUIG , Galway 6th -30th April.
"We Borrow Freedom" Winter Exhibition in Hambly and Hambly Gallery, Dunbar House, Enniskillen opening 15th of December - 3rd Feb
2017
KAVA Annual Member's Show, The Courthouse, Kinvara, Co. Galway,8th December-10th December.
A5 Art Fair, Galway Arts Centre December 1st-5th December.
"We Borrow Freedom" Winter Exhibition at Hambly and Hambly Gallery, Enniskillen curated by Dr, Helen Sharp. December 15.
KAVA Annual Member's Exhibition, The Courthouse, Kinvara 18th-27th August.
"Facing West" King House, Boyle, Boyle Arts Festival 20th July-18th August.
"Perspectives 11", Ballina Arts Centre, Balina Civic Office's Gallery 7-21st July.
Daughter of The Dagda, Group exhibition, The Courthouse, Kinvara, 1st-12 February.
Strule Arts Centre, Omagh 26 January (opening at 7-9pm) - 11 February 2017 1FT SQ (Exhibition tours sequentially to Strule from The Higher Bridges Gallery)
Trasna VI, The Court house Gallery, Ennytymon – 12th January 2017.
2016
The Higher Bridges Gallery, Enniskillen !FT SQ Exhibition 16 Dec-21 Jan 2017
Trasna VI, The Court house Gallery, Ennytymon,from 9th December 2016 – 12th January 2017.
KAVA, The Courthouse Gallery, Kinvara 2-4 Dec.
126 Artist Run Gallery, Galway Affordable Art Exhibition, Octobber.
KAVA Membership Show August 2016.
Cairde Visual 2016, The Hyde Bridge Gallery, Yeats Memorial Building, Sligo.
Solo Exhibition,The Secret gallery Kinvara, Co. Galway 2-30th of April
2015
Design Network West, Galway 20/20 Gallery, Galway City, December.
Design Network West, Galway 20/20 Gallery, Galway City, September.
KAVA (Kinvara Area Visual Artists) Courthouse Gallery Exhibition.
Graduate Degree Show 2015 GMIT, Center for Creative Arts and Media.
KAVA Exhibition, Gort Library .
2014
KAVA (Kinvara Area Visual Artists) Winter Collection Exhibition, The Russell Gallery.
The Maltings Gallery,Birr Vintage Festival Open Exhibition.
Gallery Revival, Contemporary Irish Landscape Exhibition.
Galway Fringe Festival Open exhibition.
Solo Exhibition 2014
Woodford Library , East Galway Library Art Trail .
2013
Gmit Proximity Exhibition 2013.
2012
126 Membership Show 2012.
