Join artist Deirdre Frost and curator Katie O’Grady on 17th September 1–2pm at GOMA Gallery Waterford for a lunchtime Q&A about Deirdre’s practice and her most recent body of work, 𝘉𝘭𝘶𝘦 𝘚𝘬𝘪𝘦𝘴, 𝘉𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘌𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘩: a solo exhibition running until 27 September 2025 at GOMA Waterford.
𝗪𝗲𝗱𝗻𝗲𝘀𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝟭𝟳𝘁𝗵 𝗦𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿 | 𝟭-𝟮𝗽𝗺 | 𝗚𝗢𝗠𝗔 𝗚𝗮𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗿𝘆, 𝟲/𝟳 𝗟𝗼𝗺𝗯𝗮𝗿𝗱 𝗦𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗲𝘁, 𝗪𝗮𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗱
All welcome! Free event, no booking required.
𝗗𝗲𝗶𝗿𝗱𝗿𝗲 𝗙𝗿𝗼𝘀𝘁 is a Cork-based visual artist, working from Backwater Artist Studios, and is represented by Kevin Kavanagh, Dublin. Solo exhibitions include Tumbling Earth (2025) Kevin Kavanagh, Dublin, Big Crush (2023) Kilkenny Arts Festival, In Habitat, In Transition (2021), Studio 12 gallery space, Backwater Artists Group, and St Luke’s Crypt, Sample Studios, Claochló (2021), Joan Clancy Gallery, Waterford and Biophilia (2021), Lavit Gallery Student of the Year Exhibition, Cork.
𝗞𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗲 𝗢’𝗚𝗿𝗮𝗱𝘆 is Curator of Exhibitions + Projects at the Glucksman Art Gallery in University College Cork. The Glucksman presents a wide-ranging programme of temporary exhibitions accompanied by an extensive education programme to engage visitors of diverse interests, backgrounds and abilities. In this role she is responsible for the management of the Glucksman’s curatorial programmes and artist projects. Katie graduated with her BA in Printmaking and Contemporary Practice from Limerick School of Art and Design in 2017 and received her MLitt in Curatorial Practice (Contemporary Art) jointly from the Glasgow School of Art and University of Glasgow in 2021.
𝘈𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘉𝘭𝘶𝘦 𝘚𝘬𝘪𝘦𝘴, 𝘉𝘭𝘢𝘤𝘬 𝘌𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘩:
The earth, locus of growth and renewal, is the inspiration behind this new body of oil paintings on canvas and on wood. The works consider rootedness and displacement, alongside the innate instinct in all living things to grow, to thrive, to flourish, to reach upward. The paintings attempt to capture the experience of living in this world – a fragmented, complicated place of growth and collapse, influenced by a multitude of opaque and complex human agendas.