CIARA HEALY

Born in Ireland, Healy grew up in Oxford and studied Fine Art and Illustration in Dublin. She has been awarded numerous public art commissions in Ireland and has had a number of artists books published by Ignition.  Her work is represented in public collections including Tate Britain, Office of Public Works, Dublin and the National College of Art & Design as well as private collections in Ireland the UK and the USA.

In a Village is the title of a series of small sculptures and collage watercolour images by artist Ciara Healy. The work draws inspiration from the rural village of Speldhurst, near Tunbridge Wells and is a poetic and visual journey through a churchyard, pub, park and woods. A signed limited edition artist’s book also forms part of the work. Many of the images contain collage cuttings taken from antique natural history books or children’s nature books. Transformed into flowers, butterflies and other animals, these cuttings act as a visual celebration of a place connected with nature and reflect upon the layers of lives that have gone before; the hands that tend the gardens, the dogs running through the fields, the birds that sing at sunrise.

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