Caoimhe Dalton
Smiling woman holding a dead bird (ghost)
Monotype (reworked ghost print), 22 x 18cm, €310
Biography
Caoimhe Dalton is a visual artist and printmaker whose practice focuses on hands-on, manual processes such as intaglio printmaking, lithography and painting. She graduated with Honours in Fine Art Printmaking in the National College of Art and Design, Dublin and studied Fine Arts for a year in Academie Minerva, Groningen, the Netherlands. Caoimhe also studied academic drawing and painting in the Barcelona Academy of Art. Caoimhe has been a member of Black Church Print Studio in Dublin since winning the 1st prize John Kelly RHA Award in 2019. She recently won the Print Network Ireland’s Print Purchase Prize and now has work in the permanent collection of Limerick City Gallery. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and is held in public and private collections.
Statement
My prints and paintings trouble ideas of ritual and the ‘otherworldly’. The figurative work is informed by Irish folk practices and beliefs, from odd cures and superstitions to old games and ghost sightings. I collect people’s strange stories of drinking from holy wells or being licked by a woman who married a man of the same surname. These stories inspire my prints, paintings and drawings.