About

BIO

Katie Moore is a visual artist based in Co. Mayo. She graduated from GMIT Galway with an MA in Creative Practice in 2018. She also graduated with a BA first class honours in Design in Textiles in 2015 and was shortlisted for the RDS Student of the Year Award 2015.

Moore was awarded the Emerging Irish Artist Residency Award 2018 with The Burren College of Art. Moore was also awarded the Arts & Disability Connect New Work Award 2017, which resulted in a solo show entitled Entropy, at the Linenhall Arts Centre Castlebar.

Moore created work for On Sight 2023 sculpture trail with an outdoor sculpture at the National Museum of Ireland and for the 186th Annual Exhibition, RHA Dublin.  In 2015 Moore was chosen as the artist in residence at the Jackie Clarke Collection to commemorate the 1916 Easter Rising with Mayo County Council, which resulted in a piece of installation art entitled Paper Bloom and a limited edition publication. Other residencies include; Andrea Zittel’s A – Z West, Joshua Tree California, 2×2 Part 2 residency 126 Artist Run Gallery Galway, D.I.V.A residency at Electric Picnic, and artist in residence at A4 Sounds Dublin.

 

EDUCATION

2018 MA in Creative Practice, Centre for Creative Arts and Media (GMIT) Galway

2015 Bachelor of Arts  (First Class Hons) in Design in Textiles, Centre for Creative Arts and Media (GMIT) Galway

2014 Bachelor of Arts Degree in Art and Design, Centre of Creative Arts and Media (GMIT) Galway

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2023

Radius Project – Breathing Life into Art, Medtronic Mervue, Galway

2021

From here to there and everywhere, online exhibition due to Covid 19, with Mayo County Council Arts Service in partnership with the Arts Council

2018 

Entropy, Linenhall Arts Centre, Castlebar

2016

My Clinical Life Mayo Univerity Hospital, Castlebar

Nothing was left to chance, Everything was clinical, Custom House Studios and Gallery, Westport

Paper Bloom, 1916 Commission, Ballina Civic Offices

2008

Solo Exhibition, Blue Door Arts, Ballina, Mayo

 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2023

OXO (Outset Xmas Open), Outset Gallery Galway

Mayo Artists Show 2023, The Linenhall Arts Centre Castlebar

Modern Life, McGings Exhibition Westival, Westport

Dear PrEUdence, The European Parliment, Brussels

On Sight, National Museum of Ireland – Country Life, Castlebar 

2022 

It Comes in Waves, The Courthouse Gallery and  Studios ,Ennistymon, Clare 

Pulse, Limerick City Gallery 

Mayo Day Exhibition, Castlebar, Mayo

Brain Drain, Incubation Space,  Dublin 

2021

Mayo Artists Show, The Linenhall Arts Centre Castlebar

2020

An Exhibition of Cystic Fibrosis, CB1 Art Gallery, Limerick City 

2018 

MA:18 – MA in Creative Practice Graduate Exhibition, Connacht Tribune Print Works, Galway City

An Exhibition of Cystic FibrosisCB1 Art Gallery, Limerick City 

Made of Mayo Artists Exhibition, Ballinrobe Race Course, Mayo 

2017

20 Years Group ExhibitionWestport Arts Festival, Westport CFE

2016

Winter Exhibition 2016 Studio, at the Custom House Studios and Gallery, Westport

Hair 2X2 Part 2 Exhibition, at 126 Artist Run Gallery, Galway

D.I.V.A Residency Exhibition, Mind Field, Electric Picnic, Stradbally, Co. Laois

Summer Exhibition 2016, Dun Laoghaire Art Gallery, Dublin

Paper Bloom Community Groups Exhibition, The Jackie Clarke Collection Ballina

On Sight, National Museum of Ireland – Country Life, Castlebar

186th Annual Exhibition, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin

2015

Graduate Showcase, Knitting and Stitching Show 2015, RDS Simmonscourt, Dublin

RDS Student Art Awards, RDS Concert Hall, Dublin

CCAM Degree Show, Centre for Creative Arts and Media (GMIT), Galway

Perspectives 9, Ballina Arts Centre, Mayo

2014

Art, Design, Process, Product, (Galway Design Week) Centre for Creative Arts and Media (GMIT), Galway

GMIT Open Day Exhibition, Centre for Creative Arts and Media (GMIT), Galway

13 Threads, Textiles Degree Show, Galway City Museum, Galway

2013

Proximity, Galway Mayo Institute of Technology, Galway

2012

Proximity, Galway Mayo Institute of Technology, Galway

2008

Graduate Show, Westport Library, Mayo

 

AWARDS / RESIDENCIES

2018

Emerging Irish Artist Residency Award 2018, The Burren College of Art, Co Clare

European Academy of Participation with Create Ireland, University of Marseille, France

2017

Arts & Disability Connect New Work Award, Art & Disability Ireland

Artist in Residence, A4 Sounds, Dorset St, Dublin

2016

A-Z Wagon Station Encampment, Joshua Tree, CA, USA

Upstart 2016 Project Award, Mayo County Council Arts Office

D.I.V.A Artist in Residence at Electric Picnic 2016, Stradbally, Co. Laois

2X2 Part 2 Residency / Exhibition, 126 Artist Run Gallery, Galway

Ten Outstanding Young Person of Mayo 2016 Award

2015

Jackie Clarke 1916 Residency Commission with Mayo County Council Arts Office

Shortlisted for the RDS Student Art Award

 

INVITED ARTIST TALKS

2020

Workshop – Bealtaine Festival (virtual during Covid-19 lockdown)

2017

Artist Talk – St. Marys Secondary School, Ballina, Mayo

Guest Speaker – UpstART Website Launch, Ballina Arts Centre, Mayo

2016

Artist Talk – St. Patrick’s College, Lacken Cross, Mayo

Guest Lecturer – Design School, Athlone Institute of Technology

Artist Talk – Bealtaine Festival, Jackie Clarke Collection, Ballina, Mayo

Artist Talk – St. Marys Secondary School, Ballina, Mayo

 

REVIEWS / PUBLICATIONS

2018

Exhibition puts spotlight on graduates’ talent, Connacht Tribune, 21st September 2018 – Read here.

MA18 – GMIT graduates exhibition in the Connacht Printworks, Galway Advertiser, 20th September 2018 – Read here.

Katie Moore on art, empathy and her stunning new work, RTE Culture, 14th May 2018 – Read here.

Entropy exhibition by Katie MooreMayo.ie, May 2018 – Read here.

Entropy by Katie Moore, Galway Now, 24th April 2018 – Read here.

Entropy – Katie Moore, The Journal.ie, 21st April 2018 – Read here.

Entropy to Open in Castlebar, Mayo Advertiser, 20th April 2018 – Read here

2017

Centenary, A state published book documenting the 2016 Centenary Programme, October 2017

2016

Foxford in the Spotlight, Western People, 27th December 2016

The Fabric of False PrivacyClosing, The Mayo News, 15th November 2016 – Read here

Event of 1916 Artist in Residence, The Mayo News, 21st June 2016 – Read here

Visual art: Patrick Pearse’s prison cell cast in a new light, Aidan Dunne, Irish Times, 7th June 2016 – Read here

Katie Moore 1916 Exhibition, Mayo Now Magazine, 3rd June 2016

Summertime Paper Bloom in the Jackie Clarke Collection, The Connaught Telegraph, 27th May 2016 – Read here

Katie’s Artwork Blossoms from Community Roots, Orla Hearns, The Western People, 23rd May 2016 – See here

Nothing was left to chance, Everything was clinical, Galway Now Magazine, May issue

RHA 186th Annual Exhibition, Catalogue

2015

Katie, Jackie and 1916, The Mayo News, 26th November 2015 – Read here

1916 Jackie Clarke Collection Artist in Residence announced, Press Release 

2015 RDS Student Art Awards, Catalogue

Fabric of Design, Galway Now Magazine

CCAM Graduate Degree Show, Catalogue