Welcome to Granary Collective
About Us
We were founded in 2021 by The National College of Art and Design, and have been located in Dublin collectively and across Ireland individually. As a collective we are young and upcoming fine art printmakers. Our talented artists work extremely hard to help cultivate the inner creatives into our Artist Collective.
Meet the Artists
Granary Collective
Anna Carey
My practice draws attention to universal, ubiquitous topics dealing with the natural world, and natural-scientific phenomena. I entwine scientific knowledge, natural intelligence and spiritual intuition together in my art in a poetic and thoughtful approach. The inextricable symbiosis between humans and the natural world, and seeking the ultimate union that overrides all individuality and identity, are just a handful of my inquiries explored and revered within my art practice. Through a long-term, ever-evolving and intensive research project using nature as an organic reservoir of intelligence, further studies in scientific-geological fields and ancient spiritual disciplines and texts, I am continuously exploring new ways of questioning and understanding ultimately what is still unknown to modern science; Reaching new ways of connecting with where we have originated and evolved from. I believe in the importance of understanding our world on this subtle level, beyond the physicality, using the formless body of art to tell it.
Catherine Ward
Catherine Ward is a Dublin based multimedia artist who works predominantly through paint, print and sound to attempt to communicate the complexities of emotion as well as the ephemerality of the human experience in an emotionally raw and vulnerable way. Her hope is to create a space through her art for the open exploration and discussion of the parts of ourselves that we avoid.
Cillian Quearney
Cillian is a 22 year old printmaker from Dublin. His piece “What is real?” Inspects the blurred lines between reality and fantasy by projecting stills from photorealistic video games over collaged photographs from his local area. Throughout lockdown Cillian has focused on his own struggle with escapism and wanted to use this piece to provoke a conversation about escaping reality.
Edie Scott
Edie is a printmaker from Carlingford, Co. Louth. Edie dives into the exploration of her perceptions, movement, embodied experience and feelings of self influenced on world concerns. She tracks the movement of the light through the cracks and dapples of the trees to represent these emotions. Her own perceptions have been spewed due to the uncertainty of the world right now and stuck in a loophole of Groundhog Day. “There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in” -Leonard Cohen
Hazel Harte
Getting outside is good for the soul, especially during times like these. Therefore I like to try to expand the walls and means we have through my artwork.
My work focuses on the places in life which are often overlooked. The uninteresting and veiled. My aim is to share my discovery of the beauty found in unusual places.
I like to discover through making and follow the path my new finds lead me. The deeper I delve into the snubbed, the more inspiration I seem to find. I feel that often the challenge in life is to see beyond the distractions; to capture the unique itself, and that is exactly what I like to try and do, through following trails and paths not usually taken.
Helen Casey
Being an artist and a strong admirer of Biology, I've always enjoyed the natural linkages between the scientific study of life and the visual study of life as an inspiration for Art. Much of my work before now has been seeking inspiration around natural and organic forms in nature, such as trees. Nature is the ultimate source of all creation. I was driven to explore the natural forms and often unnatural growths of the human body, the human brain and the disease Alzheimer’s, through personal familial experience.
When I was thinking about how Alzeihmers affects the brain I couldn't help but compare it to how Ivy affects trees. Ivy clings on to trees and works its way up to the canopy looking for light; however in doing so it blocks important connections that the tree needs in order to photosynthesise properly. It doesn't kill the tree but simply disrupts its daily functions. Similarly in Alzheimer's the connections in the brain are blocked not allowing for all the information to get through. In turn, disrupting day-to-day activity.
Julie Cleere
Do they know or do they want to know what lies behind the walls of the institution? I like to
question preconceived ideas which are held in relation to this. My work offers an
opportunity to reflect on what is understood by an institution and what it represents.
Through peeling back the layers slowly and carefully one can develop an understanding of
the different structures which encompass the institution.
Through the use of video, photography, cyanotype and print one can distinguish clear lines
which surround us by the use of layers, colours and projections. The initial charcoal drawing,
photographs, and impressions I make reflect the process of growth and development
through reflection and understanding of events and situations I encounter.
For this particular piece of work I have focused on St Canice’s Psychiatric Hospital, in
Kilkenny. I have looked at how people in the past entered, lived, prayed and died within the
hospital. My intention is to give a voice to those who are gone but not let them be
forgotten.
Michael Flavin
Michael Flavin is a print dominant visual artist from Dublin, Ireland. Although his studies centre in print, his practice covers a wide range of media.
His work predominantly deals with the distortion and portrayal of the human figure as an outlet for depicting his emotions and feelings in a physical and visual form, while simultaneously unlocking and exploring elements of his own internal monologues and sense of identity. In this way he hopes to permit a certain vulnerability to enter his work and allow others to both relate to his work as well as attach their own personal context to it.
Rúairí McCarthy Griffin
My name is Rúairí McCarthy, I'm a student in the national college of art and design and I'm in my second year of studying fine art print. I practice in intaglio etching, both hard ground and soft ground methods, and mono printing. I'm starting to broaden my skill for screen printing snd digital work.
