Caoimhe Kilfeather

Caoimhe Kilfeather’s work is predominantly sculptural and is influenced by an interest in the built environment and of our relationships to the spatial, formal and psychological qualities of architecture. The work demonstrates sensitivity to the intrinsic qualities of raw matter and Caoimhe Kilfeather’s manipulation of materials, scale and weight results in works where the physical properties of objects and structures are obscured and hard to define. Finished work and exhibitions sometimes take the form of an environment – the creation of a ‘new place.’ Such installations have a reflective presence; they are sparsely appointed with crafted objects that are charged with thoughts, memories and other associations.

Caoimhe Kilfeather is based in Dublin and studied at the National College of Art Design, Dublin and the Slade School of Fine Art, London. Her work is held in numerous collections such as the National Gallery of Ireland, Irish Museum of Modern Art, the Arts Council and Office of Public Works. She lectures in Sculpture and Combined Media at the Limerick School of Art and Design.

Selected solo exhibitions include evening and season and weather and history, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin; this attentive place, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin; Before it stirs the surface, Oonagh Young Gallery, Dublin as well as selected group exhibitions Shaping Ireland, National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin and Shades, Serum, Aarhus.