Michael Warren

Michael Warren is a unique artist who has carved out his well earned position as one of Ireland’s finest minimalist sculptors. Warren has been making sculptor since the early 1970’s and is know for his inexhaustible ability to create simple and structured works that exist within their own gravitational fields, evoking weight, light and forms that transform the their immediate environments. Warren is known for his extensive career in making public art, most notably in Carlow where his work Catharloch (2001) stands at the Dr Cullen roundabout as well as many other works throughout Ireland. Warren has also been commissioned internationally including Spain, France, Portugal, Andorra, Japan, South Korea, the United States and Saudi Arabia amongst other countries. He was one of the first artists to be made member of Aosdána in 1981.

Michael Warren exhibited at Éigse in 1998.

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.