Claire Langan

Clare Langan  was born in Ireland in 1967. In 1989 she received her First Class Honours Degree in Fine Art from the NCAD, Dublin and completed a film workshop at New York University in 1992. Her film Metamorphosis, in 2007 won the Principle Prize at the Oberhausen International Short Film Festival, Germany. Clare Langan’s work has been shown worldwide, solo exhibitions include: The ice above, the fire below, and other works (2007-2009), Limerick City Art Gallery, New Work, Fenton Gallery(2008), Cork, and Solo Exhibition at Miguel Marcos Gallery, Barcelona (2008). In 2003 Langan presented “A Film Trilogy” at the Museum of Modern Art New York and the RHA, Dublin. She represented Ireland at the 25th Bienale de Sao Paulo, Brazil 2002 and the International 2002, Tate Liverpool for the Liverpool Biennial. Clare Langan’s practice is characterised by a crossover between photography, film and painting. Langan uses painterly techniques to alter and enhance her photographic images, such as hand painted filters and lens attachments. Her work is in the collections of the Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA), Dublin Institute of Technology, University College Dublin, University College Cork as well as many other private collections. Langan represented Ireland at Sound and Visions, Art Film and Video from Europe, Museum of Modern Art Tel Aviv in February 2009.

 

Clare Langan exhibited in Éigse in 2000.

Art collection

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Origins

Set up in 1992, The Carlow Art Collection is a voluntary community initiative that has been surrounded by goodwill and generosity from the people of Carlow. It has expanded into a diverse collection of work with artists from around the world. CAC became a fully registered charity in 2018. The home of our art collection is in Carlow College. The Carlow Art Collection is free to view in the front halls of Carlow College, Monday to Friday, and in the garden every day of the year.

Today

The art works in the permanent collection include painting, print, drawing, sculpture, sound, photography, live art, film and activism, with more to come. The collection and CAC projects reflect a broad range of art by over thirty artists, many of whom visited, exhibited, engaged with or lived in the area.

Our Goal

The CAC is deeply indebted to the artists who contribute to the collection, to its board members past and present, and to the many people and organisations that support it technically and financially. The Carlow Art Collection will continue to expand on the ideas of what art is and what an art collection can be, and become.