Bio
Michelle Ryan is a Limerick born lens based media artist, based in Co. Clare. Her practice explores topics such as the relationship between space, narrative and internet culture. With a particular focus on factual vs fictional.
In 2016 she facilitated an edition of And then... a spoken word film festival by Liam Gillick for EVA International. Most recently, she has been longlisted for the RDS Visual Arts Awards 2017 and highly commended in the Inspirational arts award 2017. Recent exhibitions include Plinth III curated by Simon Fennessy Corcoran at The Sailor's Home Limerick and the first edition of the Soul Noir Festival in Dublin.
Michelle was previously a member of the Culture Team at Ormston House Cultural Resource Centre in Limerick City.
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Education
2014 - 2017 - BA Hons Fine Art Photography and Lens Based Media, Limerick School of Art and Design.
2013 - 2014 - City and Guild / QQI Level 6 Advanced Photography, Limerick College of Further Education.
2012 - 2013 - QQI Level 5 Photography, Limerick College of Further Education.
2011 - 2012 - City and Guilds Level 4 Computer Aided Engineering, SOLAS Limerick.
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Exhibitions
2018 - K-FEST, Arts festival, Kilorglin Co. Kerry.
2018 - Light Proof, Group Show, Cork Printmakers Print Gallery (part of Cork Photo Festival), Cork, Curated by Brian Mac Domhnaill.
2017 - Soul Noir Festival of Dark Arts, Group Show, Dublin, Curated by Sinead Keogh and Jack Rabbit.
2017 - Plinth III, Group Show of selected graduates of Limerick School of Art and Design, Sailors Home Limerick, Curated by Simon Fennessy Corcoran.
2017 - be.cause, Limerick School of Art and Design Graduate Show.
2016 - From Light, Group Show in conjunction with The Guesthouse, Tom Barry's Pub Cork.
2016 - Seeking Sanctuary, Limerick School of Art and Design Year 3 Group Show. Central Buildings, Limerick, Curated by Maureen Considine.
2014 - Limerick in Focus, Limerick College of Further Education Group Show, Absolute Hotel, Limerick.
2013 - Out of Focus, Limerick College of Further Education Group Show, Southcourt Hotel, Limerick.
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Other
​2016 - 2018 Culture Team Member, Ormston House, Limerick.
2017 - Longlisted, RDS Visual Arts Awards.
2017 - Highly Commended, Inspirational Arts Photography Award.
2016 - Liam Gillick's And Then… project (part of EVA Still the Barbarians), regular contributor and host, Mother Mac's Pub Limerick.
2013 - Thought Tree, Limerick College of Further Education.
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