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Jessica Daly is a visual artist/researcher/trainee librarian living in Dublin.
EDUCATION
(2025)   Master of Library & Information Studies, University College Dublin
2021    B.A. Fine Art Painting, National College of Art and Design
2020    Erasmus exchange, Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk, Poland  
TEACHING
2024    Workshop Facilitator, St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin
2024    Art tutor, Mullingar Youth Project
2022 - 2024    Studio Assistant, National College of Art and Design, Dublin
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021    Forward and Back, Mullingar Columb Barracks. Supported by Westmeath Arts Council.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024    Conclude, Clancy Quay Studios
2023     Open House Europe Summit: Building Futures Together, Trienal de Arquitectura de Lisboa
2023    Sa Lár, Luan Gallery
2023    Culture Night Exhibition, Clancy Quay Studios
2023    Collective Residue: Off the Clock, Pallas Projects
2022    Westmeath Artists Support Award, Luan Gallery
2022    HALFTONE Print Fair, The Library Project
2022    Regrowing Collective: Pop-up Exhibition, Phoenix Park
2022    Ranelagh Arts Summer Exhibition, Ranelagh Arts
2022    New Beginnings, The LAB Gallery
2021    Positives: Painting in the Pandemic, online exhibition with NTMA Sports and Social Club
2020    Zacznijmy wszystko od nowa [Let’s start everything over], Gdansk Shipyard
AWARDS
2024    Agility Award, Arts Council
2024    Westmeath County Council’s Creative Ireland Community Grant
2023    Edward James Foundation Short Course Bursary
2022    Thomas Dammann Junior Memorial Trust Award — research grant for project with
Drawings and Prints Study Center at the Museum of Modern Art, New York
RESIDENCIES
2024    ART-NATURE Symposium Gabrovtsi, Bulgaria
2023    Clancy Quay Studio Residency, Kennedy Wilson, Dublin
2021    Printmaking residency, Stiwdio Maelor, Wales
2021    Graduate residency, Cathy Bacon’s studio, Cork
WRITTEN WORK AND PRESENTATIONS
2024    Interviews with guest artists at Gabrovtsi ART-NATURE Symposium
2024    ‘Conversations with Artists: Veliko Tarnovo’, magazine launched at Clancy Quay Studios
with Sara Muthi, Curatorial Fellow at IMMA, and Denitsa Milusheva, a Bulgarian artist and researcher
2022    ‘Abstract Painting Under Socialism: The Work of Peter Dochev’, presented at the 8th
International Interdisciplinary Conference, Bulgarian Cultural Institute, Vienna
2022    The Spenser Spin, collaborative poetry with Jennifer Redmond, Unbound Projects
2022    ‘The AIP/Pages: Creative Web-Design for Online Exhibiting’, an essay responding to Pallas
Project’s online, interactive artist pages
2021    Graduate Talks, Ormond Art Studios
2020    ‘Over Nature’, exhibition review commissioned by Luan Gallery
2020    ‘Crowded Thresholds’, exhibition review published by Circa Art Magazine