Ailbhe Mc Gowran is an emerging artist currently living in Waterford.

She graduated with a Bachelor's in Sculpture and Combined Media from the Limerick School of Art and Design in 2022.

During her bachelor's she took several workshops, including welding, casting, clay, photography, projection, printing, animation and notably performance art with Nigel Rolfe and Amanda Coogan, eventually becoming part of the BBeyond performance group (online during the pandemic).

Since graduating, she has undertaken a 21 week welding course in order to create metalworks, bringing her practice to a different area of interest, as well as diving into short workshops such as stained glass and mosaic.

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Being from an Irish background and having lived in the South of France for 16 years, she considers herself multinational and is passionate about traveling, other people and cultures.

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More recently she has been working at SPRAOI as an art technician and teaching in St Kieran's College in Kilkenny covering a maternity leave.

She has spent the last year successfully battling Stage 3 Breast Cancer while always staying creative and positive.
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Exhibitions:

2022 Final Year Exhibition ILIAD

2021 Online Group Exhibition The Act of Stasis

2020 Online Group Exhibition Memories of Broken Creatures and the Loss of Human Expression

2020 Group Exhibition Beyond the Square LSAD foyer, Limerick
2019 Group Exhibition Church Gallery LSAD, Limerick

2018 Group Exhibition Centre Ceres Franco, Montolieu

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Collections:

Private Collection, Montazels, France

Private Collection, Waterford, Ireland