Deirdre Frost is a visual artist based in Backwater Artist Studios, Cork, working primarily in oil painting on wood, using imagery from her everyday built and natural environments, reconfigured in order to consider new narratives.
Education
BA (Hons) in Fine Art, BMus, MA.
Solo Exhibitions
2025 Tumbling earth, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin
2023 BIG CRUSH, St Kieran’s Festival Gallery, Kilkenny Arts Festival
2021 In Habitat, In Transition, Studio 12, Backwater Artist Studios, Cork
In Habitat, In Transition, St Lukes Crypt, Sample-Studios, Cork
Claochló, Joan Clancy Gallery Exhibition Award, An Rinn, Co. Waterford
‘Biophilia’, Lavit Gallery Student of the Year, Lavit Gallery, Cork
2-Person Exhibition
2024 Civilisation Blooming, with Seiko Hayase at Lavit Gallery, Cork
2022 Translations, with Flavia Lugigan (Cluj-Napoca, Romania), at Nano Nagle Place, Cork
Group Exhibitions
2024 Magic and Loss, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin
Drawn Works, The Long Space, Backwater Artist Studios, Cork
Field Trip, Backwater Artists Group exhibition at Lavit Gallery, Cork. Curated by Kevin Kavanagh & Alannah Murray
Stories of Art, Glucksman, UCC, Cork
2023 Lavit Gallery Winter Group Exhibition, Lavit Gallery, Cork
2022 Generation 2022: New Irish Painting, Butler Gallery, Kilkenny
Lavit Gallery Summer Group Exhibition, Lavit Gallery Cork
Lavit Gallery Winter Group Exhibition, Lavit Gallery, Cork
2020 Rhetoric, Crawford College of Art & Design Degree Show – online
Sample Studios Winter Exhibition, Lord Mayor’s Pavilion, Cork
Lavit Gallery Members Exhibition, Lavit Gallery, Cork
2018 Lavit Gallery Members Exhibition, Lavit Gallery, Cork
2017 Lavit Gallery Members Exhibition, Lavit Gallery, Cork
Awards
Arts Council Agility Award
Cork City Council Individual Artist Bursary
CCAD Class of 2020 Valerie Gleeson Development Bursary
Joan Clancy Gallery Annual Exhibition Award
Sample Studios Residency Studio Award
Lavit Gallery Student of the Year
Ciarán Langford Memorial Bursary – Backwater Artists Group
CCAD Graduate Residency Award
Commission/Project
2022
‘Your Collection, Your Choice’ DCU, Glasnevin. Selected artist for feature commission in main reception area.
‘Memory of Place’ Glucksman UCC in collaboration with Cork City Partnership. Commissioned artwork exhibited in the Glucksman May 17th -29th then part of touring collection.