Artist in Community
Funded by Create Ireland and the Arts Council, this 6 week project EngAGED looked at isolation and how to connect people living in rural conditions to explore social contact through a creative process
Works
Boundaries Split Bunnahowna Earth meets Sea
Exhibitions
Joint Exhibitions: July 2022 : “Emergence” ATU Graduate Show, Linenhall Gallery, Castlebar, Co. Mayo March 2022 – April 2022: “Faces and Places” Clew Bay Hotel, Westport, Co. Mayo July 2021 – August 2021: ATU Graduate Show, Customs House Studios and Gallery, Westport, Co. Mayo June 2019 – July 2019: Fine Art Graduate Show, Customs House …
Contact
Email : rosienorton50@gmail.com Website: http://rosienorton.com Facebook: Rosie Norton Instagram : rosfarren
Education
Sept 2020 – 2021 – MA Socially Engaged Art Practices, TUS Co. Limerick Sept 2019 – June 2020 – BA Contemporary Art Practices, ATU Castlebar, Co. Mayo Sept 2018 – May 2019 – Level 6 Fine Art, College of further education, Westport, Co. Mayo
Biography
Rosie is currently working out of the Customs House Studios and Gallery, Westport, Co. Mayo, Ireland. She is also a professional member of VAI and works as a community artist with Mayo Arts Squad. Always having a passion for art she returned late in her career to persue a Level 6 Fine Art Award, from …
Artistic Statement
My work explores land, place, nature – our human condition and where we sit in this. My practice seeks to reposition the socially hidden, through collaborative processes – involving workshops, exhibitions, dialog and creative enquiry to realign our sense of place and belonging in an inclusive universe.
Rosie Norton Visual Artist
Rosie is a socially engaged visual artist exploring place and social inclusion. Since graduating with her Masters in socially engaged art, Rosie has been exploring the right to belong and how this sits in the realm of nature, human rights and links to heritage. Her work explores this question through community work and her own …