My work explores social and demographic changes in rural Ireland. It is project based. I focus on a particular aspect of society, research it, engage with relevant people and their stories, explore the location, to build up a body of documentation and information which inspires the resulting artwork, working both historically and dialectically. I work in a variety of media: painting, printmaking, photography, audio and video. 

Oibrím i meáin éagsúla: péinteáil, déanamh priontaí, grianghrafadóireacht, fuaim, físeáin. Déanaim iniúchadh ar athruithe sóisialta agus déimeagrafacha in Éirinn. Dírím ar ghné ar leith den tsochaí, déanaim taighde uirthi, téim i dteagmháil le daoine, fiosraím an suíomh. Cruthaím corpas faisnéise a spreagann an saothar ealaíne a thagann as, ag obair go stairiúil agus go canúinteach araon. Faoi láthair ag díriú ar na hoileáin amach ó chósta na hÉireann.

Pamela de Brí

Email: pameladebri@gmail.com

Telephone: 0876616863  

Website: www.pameladebri.com

Education:

2013: Diploma in Photography, Photography Institute, Pembroke Rd, Dublin. 

2010: B.A. Visual Arts Practices, Hons.  IADT, Dún Laoghaire, Co. Dublin. 

2004: DVI, NCAD, Dublin. 

(B.A. Hons French/ Irish, Maynooth College; H. Dip. Ed.; T.T.G; Higher Diplomas in Spanish and Italian.) 

Member of the Graphic Studio Dublin, Leinster Printmaking Studio, Clane, SULT Artist-led Collective and VAI.

2022: Featured on “The Artists Well”

Awards:

2025:   Art Act Grant Kildare Co Co for Island Project

2024:    Creative Communities Collaborative Grant with Shane Hynan and Sheena Malone, Kildare Co Council

2023:    Agility Award, Arts Council

Arts Act Grant Kildare Co Council on behalf of Sult Artists, to organise an International Open Call Visual Arts Exhibition for Brigid 1500, Kildare in 2024

2022:    Arts Act Grant Kildare Co Council Island Project

Grant on behalf of SULT Artists for LIFE GOES ON, marking the withdrawal of the British Army from Ireland in 1922, as part of the Decade of Commemorations Programme. 

2017 -2021: Arts Act Grant Kildare Co Council for various projects above

2018:   Culture Ireland Grant on behalf of LPS in Italy 

Culture Ireland Grant for Impact 10 Encuentro, Santander 

2016:    3rd Prize, Lessidra International Mini-Print, Bulgaria

2013:    Foras na Gaeilge award for Midland Project 

Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Co Monaghan. Kildare Co Council Award 

2010-13: Cill Rialaig, Co. Kerry

Projects:

2024-25: Tóch | Dig, an intergenerational phased community engagement project with Sheena Malone and Shane Hynan

2019  - ongoing: Island Project: exploring, painting, documenting islands off the Irish coast. 

2018-22: Re:Place, an exploration of rural Ireland in video, painting and printmaking.

2016 -17: Curator/ Organiser Little Stories Little Prints, 1916 Commemorative Visual Arts Project through Printmaking. (https://pameladebri.wixsite.com/littleprints)

2012 - 2015: The Midland and Broadstone Projects, a multimedia project exploring the Midlands of Ireland and the legacy of the MGWR  

2008 - 2012: Coordinator/participant Le Chéile Print Project, International Printmaking Project

Solo Exhibitions:

2025:   “ Ar an Imeall – On the Edge”, Kilcock Art Gallery, April - June

2022:   16 Islands, Brú na Bóinne (Newgrange and Knowth), 31st July- 23rd Aug 

            "Ionadú / Re: Place", (Painting and Print) Cultúrlann Béal Feirste, Márta\Aibreán 2022 

2021:    "Ionadú / Re: Place", (Painting, Prints and Video), Áras Inis Gluaire, Belmullet. (Aug - Sept)

2018:    Exhibition of Original Prints, Imagine Festival. Waterford. (October) INVITED ARTIST 

            "Midland Journey", Printmaking Exhibition, Impact 10 Encuentro International, Santander 2017:  "Midland/Lár Tíre", photographic exhibition touring libraries Dublin, Kildare and Offaly. 

            Aug-Sept: Midland- Lár Tíre, Edenderry Library (Heritage Week Programme). 

2015:    "Silence, Broadstone Shed", Kildare Library, (Aug) now Permanent Exhibition 

            "Midland- Lár Tíre. Cycling the MGWR from Past to Present."  Multimedia exhibition, National Photographic Archive, Temple Bar, Dublin 2 (Jan-May)

2014-15: "Mid Land 2 / Lár Tíre 2", Linenhall Arts Centre, Castlebar, Co. Mayo (Nov-Jan)

2013:    "Mid Land1/ Lár Tíre 1", Áras Inis Gluaire, Béal an Mhuiread, Co Muigheo. (July/Aug) 

2011:    "As it is", Paintings and Prints, Iniscarra Gallery, Rathcoole, Co. Dublin (Nov)

            "Silence", an exhibition of photographs and video, The Ivy House, Dublin 1 (Feb-May)

2002:    "First Voice", Mullingar Arts Centre, Co Westmeath. (Feb-Mar) 

1998:    "Radharcanna agus Eile", Ionad Árainn, Inis Mór, Aran Islands, Co Galway. (June)

Recent International Selected Group Exhibitions

2021/2: Miniprints: Bimpe,Canada; Cantabria, Santander. 

2020:     Miniprints: Bimpe,Canada; Cantabria, Santander; Kazanlak, Bugaria. 

2019:    Miniprint de Cantabria, Santander, Spain 

            L.P.S. Responds…, Bassano and Orte, Italy Nov: LPS at Lessidra, Sofia, Bulgaria.  

2018:    Bienial Duoro, Portugal, INVITED ARTIST (Aug-Nov)

            Miniprint exhibitions: Lessidra International Miniprint and Miniprint Kazanlak.

            3rd International Miniature Print Exhibition, New York. 

2017:    9th Global Print Bieniale, Portugal INVITED ARTIST.    

            Miniprint exhibitions at Cadaques, (Spain) Lessidra, Kazanlak, (Bulgaria); Bimpe, Canada.  

2016:    Miniprint exhibitions at Lessidra, Kazanlak, (Bulgaria) and Cadaques, (Spain). 

2011:    Le Chéile at Oriel Ynys Mon, Llangefni, Anglesey, Wales. (Sept-Nov)

            Le Chéile Print Project, Invited International Touring Exhibition, South Australia 

            Celtica Festival, Port Arthur, Australia (Dec)        

Selection of Recent Group Exhibitions in Ireland (Selected, Invited and/or Curated)

2024:     “Gifts of the Mind” Kilcock Art Gallery

                Cairde Visual 2024, Sligo

“Bucolica”, Mont Congreve, Co Waterford (Artform Dunmore East)

2023:    “LPS 25th Anniversary’, Kilcock Gallery, Esker Arts, May – Aug, (2024: Naas Municipal Library)

“Chaos/Order”, Municipal Gallery, Lexicon, Dún Laoghaire

            “Here/Now”, Artnetdlr group show, Walters, Dún Laoghaire

            “Brigid Unfolding”, No 8 Gallery, Kildare

2022:    “Life Goes On”, Exhibition for Kildare Decade of Commemoration 2022, Newbridge,

“Life Goes On”, Phoenix Park Visitor Centre, November. 

“Make your Mark” Siamsa Tíre, Tralee, Jan – March 

“Féile an Earraigh”, Ballyferriter, Kerry, April

2021/2: Annual Exhibition, 44 the Quay Gallery, Waterford, Nov 2021 – Feb 2022 

“Oidhreacht – Heritage”, Kilcock Art Gallery, June – July

“Discovering Print 2021”, Green Acres, Wexford, July – Aug

“Féile an Earraigh”, Ballyferriter, Kerry, April

2020:    “ImPRESSions”, Galway Art Festival, Aug – Sept:

“LPS Responds to Heaney”, Mountains to Sea Festival, Lexicon, Dún Laoghaire Nov-Dec: “Interpretations in Printmaking”, Kilcock Art Gallery, Kilcock, Co. Kildare 

 2019:   “ImPRESSions, Galway Arts Festival,

 “LPS Responds to Seamus Heaney,” Bassano Italy Aug

  Hopkins Summer School Exhibition, Newbridge. 

“Féile an Earraigh”, Ballyferriter, Kerry, April

2018:    “LPS 20th Anniversary”, Ballycroy National Park and Lexicon, Dún Laoghaire, May – Sept

            “Féile an Earraigh”, Ballyferriter, Kerry, April

2017:    “LPS 20th Anniversary touring exhibiton, Dublin, Kildare, Kilkenny, Louth etc

            “Féile an Earraigh,” Ballyferriter, Kerry 

2016:    “Invisible Stories”, a project devised and curated by Sheena Malone, (INVITED ARTIST), Oct “Second Harvest”, Riverbank Art Gallery, Newbridge, (INVITED ARTIST) Aug

“LPS @ Castlewarren Studios”, Kilkenny Fringe  

“Impressions”, Galway Arts Festival, Galway, July

“Little Stories, Little Prints” touring venues around Ireland     

“Comóradh”, Kenny Gallery, Galway July

2015:    “Impressions Book Exhibition”, Galway Arts Festival 

            “Bog 50 x 70”, Connemara Bog Week, Letterfrack, Co Galway, May-Jun

2013:    “Duanaire”, Magill Summer School, Glentees, Co Donegal, July

2011:    “Joyce Exhibition”, Castle Keep, Maynooth, Co Kildare, June

2010:    “The Big Egg Hunt”, invited artists, various venues, Dublin

            “Printmakers in Residence”, Le Chéile at Cill Rialaig, Urban R etreat Gallery, Dublin. Jul-Aug              “Impressions 11”, Framewell Gallery, Thomastown, Co. Kilkenny. June

2009:    “Hopkins at The General Stores …artists respond”, Monasterevin, Co. Kildare. July

2008:    “Bog 50x 70”, Éigse Fringe, Carlow. June, The Factory, Capel Street, Dublin, March

            “Trace”, 10 to12 artists, Pallas Contemporary Projects, Dublin. June

            “Le Chéile”, Graphic Studio Gallery, Dublin. Mar       

Taispeántas  Chlub Chonradh, Dublin, Dec

Commissions and Collections:  

Dublin Bus, commissioned work. 

OPW, Irish Rail, Kildare Co. Council Municipal Collection.  

Private and Public Collections in Ireland, England, France, Spain, Portugal, Bulgaria, Canada, U.S.A., Bermuda, and Australia. 

Publications: 

2024:    Unravelling an Icon. Celebrating and Remembering Brigid and her Legacy.  For Sult and Brigid 1500

2022:    Life Goes On, Marking the withdrawal of the British Army from Ireland in 1922. For Kildare Decade of Commemorations 

2021:    VAI newsletter,  (2021, 2009 and 2008)

2020:    Silence: Broadstone Shed, commissioned by Dublin Bus for limited distribution 

2018:    LPS 20th Anniversary Exhibition Booklet 

2016:    Little Stories Little Prints, Limited Edition Publication to accompany exhibition 

2011:    Le Chéile at Cill Rialaig ,  Le Chéile Australian catalogue  

2009:    Le Chéile mid-term publication