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Orla Barry (artist)

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Orla Barry
Orla Barry (2019)
Websitehttp://www.orlabarry.be

Orla Barry is an Irish artist and who works in a variety of media: performance, video, text and sound. She also runs a flock of pedigree Lleyn sheep on the south coast of Ireland.[1]

She is Lecturer at the Institute of Technology, Carlow[2] and a former Advising Researcher at the Jan Van Eyck Academie.[3]

Biography

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She lived for 16 years in Brussels and now lives and works in County Wexford in the South-East Ireland where she runs a flock of pedigree and Lleyn sheep.[1]

She has had performances at Performatik 17,[4] Brussels, Dublin Theatre Festival,[5] the Project Arts Centre,[6] Dublin; Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels (BOZAR), Brussels, the South London Gallery[7] and the Tate Modern, London; If I Can't Dance,[8] De Appel, Amsterdam; and The Playground Festival,[9] Leuven.

She has also had solo shows at Mu.Zee, Oostend (with Els Dietvorst), Crawford Art Gallery, Cork. ARGOS Centre for Art and Media,[10][11] Brussels. Temple Bar Gallery and Studios[12] and Mother's Tankstation, Dublin; Cultural Centre of Belém (CCB), Museu Colecção Berardo, Lisbon with Rui Chafes; Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (S.M.A.K.), Ghent; Camden Arts Centre, London; and BOZAR, Brussels. She has been awarded the prize of the Palais de Beaux Arts in the Prix de la Jeune Peinture Belge in 2003 and was short-listed for the Glen Dimplex Prize in 1999.[citation needed]

References

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  1. ^ a b Orla Barry Bio
  2. ^ "Lecturer Institute of Technology Carlow".
  3. ^ "Advising Researcher at Jan Van Eyck Academie".
  4. ^ Performatik 17
  5. ^ Dublin Theatre Festival
  6. ^ The Project Arts Centre
  7. ^ The South London Gallery
  8. ^ If I Can't Dance
  9. ^ The Playground Festival
  10. ^ Argos
  11. ^ ARGOS Centre for Art and Media
  12. ^ Breaking Rainbows Orla Barry