Hilary Elmes

Hilary Elmes was born in Dublin in 1963 and now lives in Co. Carlow. Since graduating from fine Art painting from the National College of Art and Design in 1988, she has exhibited extensively in Ireland, UK, Germany and Latvia. She has had solo exhibitions at the Linenhall Gallery (Castlebar), Wexford Arts Centre, Nicolas Gallery in Belfast and Hallward Gallery in Dublin. She has shown in many group exhibitions including the annual Cadogan Contemporary, London; Ross Fine Art, Letterkenny; Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin; Oireachtas Exhibition, Dublin; Éigse Carlow; Íontas and Boyle Arts Festival.

A member of the Visual Arts Committee of Éigse Carlow for two years, she exhibited almost annually from 1996 to 2009 either as invited artist or in the Éigse open Selection exhibition. She was also an Invited Artist in Éigse’s thirty-year retrospective, shown at the VISUAL Centre for Contemporary Art, June-August 2010.

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.