Artist Biography

Cindy Fogarty was born in Limerick where she continues to live and work. She recently graduated from Limerick School of Art and Design with a first class BA honours degree in Fine Art Painting.

Her practice engages a variety of media including paint, installation, sculpture and photography, with the primary focus being on painting, and its illusionary qualities.

Her work explores perspectives of post-modernist interpretations, and attempts to broaden the definitions of contemporary painting, using the architectural spaces we occupy as her primary painting support. The process requires a sensitivity and receptiveness to the multiple perspectives, elements and conditions of the architectural spaces she engages with. The architecture unfolds as a metaphor for psychological spaces, which are dissected, reassembled and altered.

Her practice incorporates research and studio tests involving the manipulation of our visual processing systems, which are inspired by studies of neuroscientific research into visual and cognitive perception.

At the centre of this practice is a desire to create an immersive visual experience for the viewer, which magnifies the complexities of our cognitive processes, and where consciousness and critical thinking may be evaluated through the induced physiological response.

Education

BA Honours Degree in Fine Art Painting – Limerick School of Art and Design 2017

Exhibitions

October 2017. Open House Limerick – Ormston House Limerick
June 2017. be.cause (2017 Graduate Show) - Limerick School of Art and Design
April 2016. Visioning Alternatives - Belltable Arts Centre
April 2016. Open - The Church Gallery, LSAD
March 2016. LSAD Drawing Awards - The Church Gallery, LSAD
January 2016. The Florence Vera O’Brien Lace Drawing Awards - The Church Gallery, LSAD
April-May 2015. In-site – The 18th Annual Exhibition - The Hunt Museum
September 2011. Roches Street Art Festival
July 2009. Killaloe/Balina Art Trail (Brian Boru Festival)
October 2008. An tOireachtas Art Exhibition 2008 - Cork Vision Centre, St. Peters, Cork City

Collections

Office of Public Works

Revenue Commissioners Private Collections

Awards

2017 – Collector General Graduate Painting Award

2017 – Longlisted Artist - RDS Visual Art Awards

2015 – Parkview Travel Bursary Award

Bibliography

Rainsford, John: “The Arts Interview”, Limerick Leader – Leader 2, 3 Sept 2017, p. 2

Rushe, Rose: “Arts Encounter at Distinguished Villa”, Limerick Post, 19 Sep 2013, p. 13