Órla Kelly
Apr — May 2022
Creative Development of The Toddler Take Over
Ciara Foster took up the studio residency for six months from mid December 2004.
Ciara is a textile artist who specialises in embroidery and now works in a variety of media such as grass and straw sculpture, drawing and painting. In her sculptural work Ciara uses natural and recycled materials made in response to the environment and often abandons them to decompose back to where their origins.
Foster graduated with a BA in Design specialising in textiles in 1998 and an MA in design specialising in textiles in 2003. She has exhibited widely including the Knit and Stitch show at the RDS 1996 and 2003, Sculpture and Context 2004 the MCAC open submission Textile Art Exhibition 2004. In June 2004 she spent a one-month residency at the Hall Farm Centre for Arts and Education in Vermont, US.
