Pamela de Brí

Artistic background

Pamela de Brí
Email: pameladebri@gmail.com
Telephone: 0876616863
Website: www.pameladebri.com

Education:
2013: Diploma in Photography, Photography Institute, Pembroke Rd, Dublin.
2010: B.A. Visual Arts Practices, Hons. IADT, Dún Laoghaire, Co. Dublin.
2004: DVI, NCAD, Dublin.
(B.A. Hons French/ Irish, Maynooth College; H. Dip. Ed.; T.T.G; Higher Diplomas in Spanish and Italian.)
Member of the Graphic Studio Dublin, Leinster Printmaking Studio, Clane, Blueway Art Studio and VAI.
2022: Featured on “The Artists Well”
2025: PROFILE VAI Newspaper, July/Aug

Awards:
2025: Creative Communities Collaborative Grant, (below), Phase 2, Kildare Co Council
Art Act Grant Kildare Co Co for Island Project
2024: Creative Communities Collaborative Grant with Shane Hynan and Sheena Malone, Kildare Co Council
2023: Agility Award, Arts Council
Arts Act Grant Kildare Co Council on behalf of Sult Artists, to organise an International Open Call Visual Arts Exhibition for Brigid 1500, Kildare in 2024
2022: Arts Act Grant Kildare Co Council Island Project
Grant on behalf of SULT Artists for LIFE GOES ON, marking the withdrawal of the British Army from Ireland in 1922, as part of the Decade of Commemorations Programme.
2017 - 2021: Arts Act Grant Kildare Co Council for various projects above
2018: Culture Ireland Grant on behalf of LPS in Italy
Culture Ireland Grant for Impact 10 Encuentro, Santander
2016: 3rd Prize, Lessidra International Mini-Print, Bulgaria
2013: Foras na Gaeilge award for Midland Project
Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Co Monaghan. Kildare Co Council Award
2010-13/ 2025: Residencies, Cill Rialaig, Co. Kerry

Projects:
2025 - 26: Project managed move and set up of Leinster Printmaking Studio (Studio Manager ongoing).
2024 - 26: Tóch | Dig, an intergenerational phased community engagement project with Sheena Malone and Shane Hynan
2019 - ongoing: Island Project: exploring, painting, documenting islands off the Irish coast.
2018-22: Re:Place, an exploration of rural Ireland in video, painting and printmaking.
2016 - 17: Curator/ Organiser Little Stories Little Prints, 1916 Commemorative Visual Arts Project through Printmaking. (https://pameladebri.wixsite.com/littleprints)
2012 - 2015: The Midland and Broadstone Projects, a multimedia project exploring the Midlands of Ireland and the legacy of the MGWR
2008 - 2012: Coordinator/participant Le Chéile Print Project, International Printmaking Project

Solo Exhibitions:
2026: Ar an Imeall: Exploring Ireland’s Offshore Islands, Esker Arts, Tullamore, 4th July – 26th September
Ar an Imeall: Island Voices, Rathfarnham Castle, Co. Dublin, 12th May – 28th June
Ar an Imeall: Island Voices, Naas Library and Cultural Centre, March and November
2025: Ar an Imeall – On the Edge, Kilcock Art Gallery, April - June
2022: 16 Islands, Brú na Bóinne (Newgrange and Knowth), 31st July- 23rd Aug
Ionadú / Re: Place, (Painting and Print) Cultúrlann Béal Feirste, Márta\Aibreán 2022
2021: Ionadú / Re: Place, (Painting, Prints and Video), Áras Inis Gluaire, Belmullet. (Aug - Sept)
2018: Exhibition of Original Prints, Imagine Festival. Waterford. (October) INVITED ARTIST
Midland Journey, Printmaking Exhibition, Impact 10 Encuentro International, Santander 2017: Midland/Lár Tíre, photographic exhibition touring libraries Dublin, Kildare and Offaly.
Aug-Sept: Midland- Lár Tíre, Edenderry Library (Heritage Week Programme).
2015: Silence, Broadstone Shed, Kildare Library, (Aug) now Permanent Exhibition
Midland- Lár Tíre. Cycling the MGWR from Past to Present. Multimedia exhibition, National Photographic Archive, Temple Bar, Dublin 2 (Jan-May)
2014-15: Mid Land 2 / Lár Tíre 2, Linenhall Arts Centre, Castlebar, Co. Mayo (Nov-Jan)
2013: Mid Land1/ Lár Tíre 1, Áras Inis Gluaire, Béal an Mhuiread, Co Muigheo. (July/Aug)
2011: As it is, Paintings and Prints, Iniscarra Gallery, Rathcoole, Co. Dublin (Nov)
Silence, an exhibition of photographs and video, The Ivy House, Dublin 1 (Feb-May)
2002: First Voice, Mullingar Arts Centre, Co Westmeath. (Feb-Mar)
1998: Radharcanna agus Eile, Ionad Árainn, Inis Mór, Aran Islands, Co Galway. (June)

International Selected Group Exhibitions
2021/2: Miniprints: Bimpe,Canada; Cantabria, Santander.
2020: Miniprints: Bimpe,Canada; Cantabria, Santander; Kazanlak, Bugaria.
2019: Miniprint de Cantabria, Santander, Spain
L.P.S. Responds…, Bassano and Orte, Italy Nov: LPS at Lessidra, Sofia, Bulgaria.
2018: Bienial Duoro, Portugal, INVITED ARTIST (Aug-Nov)
Miniprint exhibitions: Lessidra International Miniprint and Miniprint Kazanlak.
3rd International Miniature Print Exhibition, New York.
2017: 9th Global Print Bieniale, Portugal INVITED ARTIST.
Miniprint exhibitions at Cadaques, (Spain) Lessidra, Kazanlak, (Bulgaria); Bimpe, Canada.
2016: Miniprint exhibitions at Lessidra, Kazanlak, (Bulgaria) and Cadaques, (Spain).
2011: Le Chéile at Oriel Ynys Mon, Llangefni, Anglesey, Wales. (Sept-Nov)
Le Chéile Print Project, Invited International Touring Exhibition, South Australia
Celtica Festival, Port Arthur, Australia (Dec)

Selection of Recent Group Exhibitions in Ireland (Selected, Invited and/or Curated)
2025: Christmas Show, Kilcock Art Gallery
Artnet dlr, Walters, Dún Laoghaire, various exhibitions
2024: Unravelling an Icon, project manager and curator, outdoor exhibition for Brigid 1500 Kildare
Gifts of the Mind, Kilcock Art Gallery
Cairde Visual 2024, Sligo
Bucolica, Mont Congreve, Co Waterford (Artform Dunmore East)
2023: LPS 25th Anniversary, Kilcock Gallery, Esker Arts, May – Aug, (2024: Naas Municipal Library)
Chaos/Order, Municipal Gallery, Lexicon, Dún Laoghaire
Here/Now, Artnetdlr group show, Walters, Dún Laoghaire
Brigid Unfolding”, No 8 Gallery, Kildare
2022: Life Goes On, Exhibition for Kildare Decade of Commemoration 2022, Newbridge,
Life Goes On, Phoenix Park Visitor Centre, November.
Make your Mark, Siamsa Tíre, Tralee, Jan – March
Féile an Earraigh, Ballyferriter, Kerry, April
2021/2: Annual Exhibition, 44 the Quay Gallery, Waterford, Nov 2021 – Feb 2022
Oidhreacht – Heritage, Kilcock Art Gallery, June – July
Discovering Print 2021, Green Acres, Wexford, July – Aug
Féile an Earraigh, Ballyferriter, Kerry, April
2020: ImPRESSions, Galway Art Festival, Aug – Sept:
LPS Responds to Heaney, Mountains to Sea Festival, Lexicon, Dún Laoghaire Nov-Dec:
Interpretations in Printmaking, Kilcock Art Gallery, Kilcock, Co. Kildare
2019: ImPRESSions, Galway Arts Festival,
LPS Responds to Seamus Heaney, Bassano Italy Aug
Hopkins Summer School Exhibition, Newbridge.
Féile an Earraigh, Ballyferriter, Kerry, April
2018: LPS 20th Anniversary, Ballycroy National Park and Lexicon, Dún Laoghaire, May – Sept
Féile an Earraigh, Ballyferriter, Kerry, April
2017: LPS 20th Anniversary touring exhibiton, Dublin, Kildare, Kilkenny, Louth etc
Féile an Earraigh, Ballyferriter, Kerry
2016: Invisible Stories, a project devised and curated by Sheena Malone, (INVITED ARTIST), Oct
Second Harvest, Riverbank Art Gallery, Newbridge, (INVITED ARTIST) Aug
LPS @ Castlewarren Studios, Kilkenny Fringe
Impressions, Galway Arts Festival, Galway, July
Little Stories, Little Prints touring venues around Ireland
Comóradh, Kenny Gallery, Galway July
2015: Impressions Book Exhibition”, Galway Arts Festival
Bog 50 x 70, Connemara Bog Week, Letterfrack, Co Galway, May-Jun
2013: Duanaire, Magill Summer School, Glentees, Co Donegal, July
2011: Joyce Exhibition, Castle Keep, Maynooth, Co Kildare, June
2010: The Big Egg Hunt, invited artists, various venues, Dublin
Printmakers in Residence, Le Chéile at Cill Rialaig, Urban R etreat Gallery, Dublin. Jul-Aug Impressions 11, Framewell Gallery, Thomastown, Co. Kilkenny. June
2009: Hopkins at The General Stores …artists respond, Monasterevin, Co. Kildare. July
2008: Bog 50x 70, Éigse Fringe, Carlow. June, The Factory, Capel Street, Dublin, March
Trace, 10 to12 artists, Pallas Contemporary Projects, Dublin. June
Le Chéile, Graphic Studio Gallery, Dublin. Mar
Taispeántas Chlub Chonradh, Dublin, Dec


Commissions and Collections:
Dublin Bus, commissioned work.
OPW, Irish Rail, Kildare Co. Council Municipal Collection.
Private and Public Collections in Ireland, England, France, Spain, Portugal, Bulgaria, Canada, U.S.A., Bermuda, and Australia.

Publications:
2026: Ar an Imeall, Limited edition art book, launching November 2026
2024: Unravelling an Icon. Celebrating and Remembering Brigid and her Legacy. For Sult and Brigid 1500
2022: Life Goes On, Marking the withdrawal of the British Army from Ireland in 1922. For Kildare Decade of Commemorations
2021: VAI newsletter, (2021, 2009 and 2008)
2020: Silence: Broadstone Shed, commissioned by Dublin Bus for limited distribution
2018: LPS 20th Anniversary Exhibition Booklet
2016: Little Stories Little Prints, Limited Edition Publication to accompany exhibition
2011: Le Chéile at Cill Rialaig, Le Chéile Australian catalogue
2009: Le Chéile mid-term publication