Artist Studio Residency Announced: Joanne Reid

Fingal County Council and Draíocht, Blanchardstown, are pleased to announce Joanne Reid, a Visual Artist from Balbriggan specialising in sculpture, as recipient of the four-month paid residency in Draíocht’s Artist Studio, further to its recent Open Call.

This residency, based in Draíocht’s Visual Artist’s Studio, offers an artist a unique opportunity to develop their practice in a comfortable, practical and supportive environment. It aims to provide time and space for artistic growth and experimentation. This Residency consists of the use of Draíocht’s Visual Artist’s Studio, from September-December 2024, rent free. A fee of €4000 for the 4 month period together with €1,000 material costs are in addition.

About the Artist

Joanne Reid is a visual artist working primarily in sculpture. Her work often begins as a direct response to chance encounters with the materials, objects and spaces that form our built environment. Reid is particularly drawn to the use of building materials, such as steel, plywood, concrete, timber, and plaster in her practice. While her work draws mainly on an engagement with everyday urban contexts, there are also art historical references. Reid is interested in the history of still life and the human desire to copy and remake the natural world around us. Her most recent work plays with a merging of forms from the natural and the built world.

Joanne Reid completed an MA in Art and Research Collaboration (ARC) at the Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Dún Laoghaire, Co. Dublin, (2016). She was awarded the Fingal RHA Studio Residency (2021) and the Basic Space Artist Residency Award (2016). Exhibitions include, Sample Set, Open Studio, Studio 1, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin (2023), Home Bodies, Glandwr, Chapelizod, Dublin (2021), ARTWORKS:Dearly Beloved, Visual Carlow (2019) and Futures, Series 3, Episode 2, RHA, Dublin (2018). Reid is a recipient of the Arts Council Visual Arts Bursary Award (2023, 2022), Agility Award (2021) and the Fingal Artists’ Support Scheme (2022-2024).