Biography
Rachel Macmanus is an artist living and working in Ennis, Co Clare, Ireland. Rachel works through painting, drawing and live art.
"I am interested in the everyday minutiae of living, and how people inhabit the earth, by which I mean how they move, take up a space and form habits."
Blog: https://anmucdubh.wordpress.com/
Education
Masters in Fine Art, Open College of the Arts (UCA) 2019
BA in Visual Communications, National College of Art and Design 1997
Work and Events
March/April 2020 I Need To Be Ready Performance series, Burren National Park, Our Ladys Hospital, Ennis.
January 30 2020 Performance with Evil Collective, Plug'd, Cork
January 10 - 24 2020 Mind Breath Beat Group Show, 126 Artist Run Gallery, Galway, Co Galway
December 19 2019 Pack, Unpack. Durational Public Performance. Shannon Airport, Co Clare
November 01 2019 First Friday Artists talk. glór, Ennis, Co Clare, Ireland
October 05 2019 Night Crawl. Durational Public Performance, Ennis, Co Clare
28/29 September 2019 FIX19, members Film Program. Catalyst Arts, Belfast. 3 works screened
September 26 2019 Performance with Evil Collective for Evil IV, Pharmacia Bar, Limerick
September 20 2019 Culture Night screening of two works ‘Pushing Through’, ‘Tyre Flip- Ode to Sisyphus’ glór, Ennis, Co Clare,
June 2019 The Circle of Life (Collaborative Multimedia Project with Eleanor Feeley, Artist in Residence, St Josephs Hospital, Ennis.)
glór, Ennis, Co Clare, Ireland.
https://stjosephshospitalcircleoflifeproject.wordpress.com
June 2019 Duodecimal. Open College of the Arts Masters Degree Show
The Civic, Barnsley, UK
May – November 2019 Living Portraits
Portrait Collection in association with Bealtaine 2019
glór, Ennis, Co Clare, Ireland.
November 2018 St Josephs Portraiture Project
Portrait Collection of Hospital Residents.
On permanent display in St Josephs Hospital, Ennis, Co Clare, Ireland.
June - October 2018 Poor Clare’s Portrait Project
Drawn portraits of the sisters of The Poor Clare’s Monastery
Ennis Friary, Ennis, Co Clare, Ireland
May 2017 No Ordinary People
Portraits of residents of Drumbiggle Nursing Home, Ennis
October 2017 Culturlann Sweeney, Kilkee Co Clare, Ireland
July 2017 Scarriff Library, Co Clare, Ireland
May 2017 Clare Museum, Ennis, Co Clare, Ireland
Contact Me
Rachel Macmanus
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