Celebrate Culture Night in Draíocht with this 90 minute Exhibition Talk and Drawing Tour with artist Michelle Hall.
Join Michelle as she gives a talk on her exhibition (R)OARS followed by a series of informal drawing exercises responding to the exhibition and in celebration of the Autumn Equinox. The artist will be joined by tarot reader Róisín Bohan who will be providing short tarot readings on the night.
Michelle Hall is an interdisciplinary visual artist from Dublin 15. Her practice has been supported by Fingal Arts through the Artist Support Scheme 2014-2017, RHA Residency Award 2017, and a commission for INFRASTRUCTURE, the Fingal Public Art programme 2017-2021. She has exhibited her work in Ireland and abroad, and recent residencies include Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin 2018, and the Centre for the Study of Substructured Loss, London 2017 and Berlin 2019. Hall was awarded the Prague-based StartPoint Prize 2017 and the RC Lewis-Crosby Award at the RDS Visual Art Awards 2016. She received her BA Fine Art from TU Dublin in 2007 and completed the MA Art in the Contemporary World programme at NCAD in 2016. Hall was awarded the Arts Council Film Bursary 2017 and 2020, and a Visual Arts Agility Award in 2021. Hall was one of four recipients of HOMEGROUND: Art, People, Place, Identity Research and Development Mentoring Awards 2020-2021, a Draíocht and Fingal County Council’s Arts Office extended support programme for artists living/working in or from Fingal.
(R)OARS has been specially commissioned by Draíocht, as part of its celebration of visual art in its 21st year.
