Felicity Clear
Felicity Clear explores the intersection of line, light and perception in a wide variety of media and formats. Her work ranges from small 2D works on paper to large 3D installations and hand-drawn animations.
Born in Dublin, Felicity Clear graduated from the National College of Art and design and later received her Master of Arts from the Dun Laoghaire College of Art Design and Technology.
She is a founding member of the artist initiative Drawing de-Centered and Director of Independent Studios CLG in Dublin as well as a part-time lecturer at the National College of Art and Design.
Her work has been included in curated group exhibitions in the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Contemporary Arts Society London, Crawford Gallery Cork, The National Gallery Dublin, The Model Sligo, Limerick City Gallery, The Dock Leitrim and Highlanes Drogheda, Agnews London.
Oftentimes her creations feature distorted perspectives and three-dimensional elements that cast shadows, creating intriguing visual puzzles.
Recently, her artwork deals with the way space and time are conceptualised in maps and schema that come from meteorological observations of wind, cloud and other natural systems.
Solo shows
- 2020 Concerning Clouds, Oonagh Young Gallery, Dublin
- 2014 Drawing Plans Projections, Butler Gallery, Kilkenny
- 2012 Drawing Project, Curator Mark Joyce, DLIADT, Dun Laoghaire
- 2010 A Pervasive Lack Of Seriousness, Solo Comission as part of Unbuilding, Curators Rosie Lynch and Cliodhna Shaffrey, mermaid Arts Centre, Bray
- 2008/5 New Works, Rubicon Gallery, Dublin
Selected group shows and projects
- 2023 Atmospheres 1, Leitrim Sculpture Centre, Manorhamilton, Co Leitrim
- 2023 Call and Response, The drawing box, Glasgow Project Room, Glasgow UK
- 2023 The Order of the Drawing, Drawing Research Group at Loughborough University UK
- 2023 IFPDA Art Fair with Stoney Road Press , New York,
- 2022 A line Around An Idea, Glucksman Gallery, Cork.
- 2022 Beyond Drawing, Curated Arno Kramer, Uillinn, West Cork Arts Centre, Co Cork
- 2021 National Collection of Contemporary Drawing 30 years– Limerick City Gallery.
- 2021 Stoney Road Press 20 Years – Ballinglen Art Museum, Mayo, Co Mayo
- 2020 In the Age Of Conscious Makers, Curated Anne Kelly, NCAD Gallery, Dublin
- 2020 Original Print Fair, London
- 2019 Disruptors Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda.
- 2017 A Bounce Borrowed, Curator Sarah Searson, The Dock, Carrick On Shannon.
- 2016 Amongst Other Things, Dlr Lexicon Gallery, Dublin (with Helen Hughes)
- 2010 Centennial Of Women In Art, Museum Of Contemporary Art, Shanghai
- 2008 10,000 to 50, Curator Christina Kennedy, Irish Museum Of Modern Art, Dublin
- 2008 There Not There, Curator Dawn Williams, Crawford Gallery, Cork 2007
- 2008 Art Futures, Contemporary Art Society, London
- 2007 New Contemporaries, Agnews, London
- 2007 Art Brussels, Belgium Drawings / Artissima, Turin
