Maud Cotter: a consequence of –

Maud Cotter’s recent exhibitions include a consequence of –, Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin (2021); The Twin, Coventry Biennale of Contemporary Art, UK; a consequence of – a breather of air, the Dock, Carrick-on-Shannon; backyard sculpture, domobaal, London (2019); a consequence of – without stilling, Limerick City Gallery of Art (2018); Matter of Fact, solo show, domobaal, London (2016); Forecast of the next century, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork, touring to Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, MI, USA (2016); Compression, Ormston House Gallery, Limerick; Fourth Space, inaugural exhibition, Uilinn, West Cork Arts Centre, Skibbereen, Co. Cork (2015); and The Air they Capture is Different, the MAC, Belfast (2013). She was also initiator/curator for The Land of Zero, Crawford Art Gallery, Cork (2014). 

She lives and works in Cork, Ireland. Cotter has lectured in art and architectural colleges in Europe and America. She is co-founder of the National Sculpture Factory and a member of Aosdána. Recent publications include a monograph published by the Hugh Lane Gallery, fully illustrated with a new text by Jonathan Griffin alongside texts by Michael Lightborne (2019), Sarah Kelleher (2018), and Ed Krčma (2016). The book is designed by Tony Waddingham and printed in Belgium.

Miranda Driscoll is the current visual arts curator-in-residence at Irish Arts Center in New York and the executive director of Solas Nua, Washington, D.C., and former director of Sirius Arts Centre in Cork from 2014-2019. She co-founded and directed the Joinery, a multidisciplinary organization in Dublin, from 2007-2014 and lectured on the BA (hons) photography program at IADT Dublin from 2011-2014. Recent key projects include the restoration of One, Here, Now—a large room installation by one of Ireland’s most important living artists, Brian O’Doherty / Patrick Ireland—at Sirius Arts Centre, Cork, marked by a year-long program of commissions from some of Ireland’s leading visual artists, composers, musicians and writers along with two international conferences and a book: One Here Now, the Brian O’Doherty / Patrick Ireland Project. Driscoll has an MA in Art in the Contemporary World from NCAD, Dublin, and a BA in photography from the Falmouth College of Art, Cornwall, UK.