Kathrine Geoghegan is an artist living and working in Straffan, County Kildare, Ireland.
Kathrine’s practice is concerned with conservation, habitat and the preservation of wild places. With a particular interest in peatlands, she wishes to raise awareness and increase knowledge of the importance of different habitats through her paintings of botanical forms. She describes native plants in their natural habitat, those plants that some might call weeds, so important for biodiversity. What you see in her paintings is an insect’s-eye view of the world.
Kathrine has had 8 solo exhibitions. Her work has been acquired by the OPW for the State Collections, and her paintings feature in corporate and private collections. She has recently accepted an invitation to become a patron of the Irish Peatland Conservation Council.
Kathrine Geoghegan Artist’s CV
March 2015
Solo exhibition ‘Jewelled Wasteland’ at Signal Arts Centre, Bray, Co Wicklow, Ireland
Sept 2015
Residency at Cill Rialaig Artists’ Retreat, Bolus Head, Co Kerry, Ireland
Dec 2015
Solo exhibition ‘Soundings, Beauty from the Depths’ at the Origin Gallery, Fitzwilliam Street Upr, Dublin 2, Ireland
May 2016
Solo exhibition ‘The Native Irish and a few Colonisers’ at the United Arts Club, Dublin 2. Various group exhibitions.
June 2017
Silver & bronze medals awarded for work exhibited in Art in Bloom, Phoenix Park, Dublin, Ireland
July 2017
Exhibited at Cill Rialaig Arts Centre, Ballinskelligs, Co Kerry, Ireland
Sept 2017
Six paintings exhibited at the Great North Art Show at Ripon Cathedral, Yorkshire, UK
Sept/Oct 17
Joya AiR Ecological & Artistic residency, Almeria, Spain
May 2018
Publication in the Cold Mountain Review, literary journal of the Appalachian State University – special edition on themes of Extinction
June 2018
Bronze medal awarded for work exhibited at Art in Bloom, Phoenix Park, Dublin, Ireland
Apr/May 18
Solo exhibition, ‘The Bee-loud Glade’ at Kilcock Art Gallery, Co Kildare, Ireland
Aug 2018
Residency at Cill Rialaig Artists’ Retreat, Ballinskelligs, Co Kerry, Ireland
Nov 2018
Solo exhibition ‘Cúinne an Ghiorria’ at the United Arts Club, Dublin 2, Ireland
June 2019
Bronze medal awarded for work exhibited at Art in Bloom, Phoenix Park, Dublin, Ireland
Nov/Dec 19
Royal Ulster Academy of Arts 138th Annual Exhibition, Belfast, Northern Ireland Dunamaise Arts Centre, Portlaoise, Ireland – Annual Group Show
Sep/Oct 20
Solo exhibition ‘Shifting Sands … a startling evolution’. Dual venue exhibition
Dublin Venue: Warehouse location, Tallaght Business Park. Kildare Venue:
Kilcock Art Gallery, Co Kildare.
Purchase of ‘Bull Island Tangle’ by the OPW for the State Collections.
Oct 2020
Royal Ulster Academy 139th Annual Exhibition, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Dec 2020
Residency Cill Riallaig 1st to 15th December 2020
June 2021
Residency Cill Rialaig 15th to 29th June 2021
Sept/Oct 21
Solo exhibition ‘A Wildflower Meadow’ exhibition at Cill Rialaig Arts Centre, Ballinskelligs
Apr/May 22
Residency at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre
June 2022
Bord Bia Floral & Botanical Art in Bloom: SIlver medal awarded
Sept 2022
Solo exhibition ‘Bogland’ at the City Assembly House, Irish Georgian Society Dublin
Jan 2023
Accepted an invitation to become a patron of the Irish Peatland Conservation Council