Caoimhe Kilfeather
Caoimhe Kilfeather’s work is predominantly sculptural and often generated through experimental and intuitive processes alongside more directed research and reading. The histories and legacies of vernacular architecture, humankinds’ ritualistic tendencies as well as the imprint of landscape on human subjectivity are subject matters which inform her work.
Exhibitions sometimes take the form of an environment – with the creation of a ‘new place’. Such installations have a reflective presence; they are sparsely appointed with crafted objects that are charged with thoughts, memories, and other associations. Kilfeather employs processes as diverse as weaving, casting, carving and photography and materials as wide ranging as glass, bronze, iron, plaster, paper, silk, wood, and coal. This broad range of materials and processes is reflective of the world to which the work is addressed and derived from.
Her work is held in numerous collections such as the National Gallery of Ireland, Irish Museum of Modern Art, the Arts Council and Office of Public Works. She lectures in Sculpture & Combined Media at the Limerick School of Art and Design.
Selected solo exhibitions include experiments in living, St Carthage Hall, Lismore Castle Arts (2022); an occasional dream, Oono, Mexico (2021); evening and season and weather and history, Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin (2016); this attentive place, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin (2014). Recent group exhibitions include Sentients, Alte-Westend-Apotheke:Glandwyr, Munich (2024), This Rural, Lismore Castle Arts (2023); Shaping Ireland, National Gallery of Ireland (2021), Dublin and Shades, Serum, Denmark (2021).
