Colette Nic Aodhd - Ár n-Oidhreacht: Fragments of Our Past - artworks

Colette Nic Aodha has exhibted her works with UachtarArts and collaborated with artist Kathleen Furey, historians Dr Mary Clancy and Dr Caitríona Cleer for the Resonance exhibition by Artspace. Colette is pursuing a PhD in the English department of NUI Galway on the work of Anglo-Welsh visual artist and poet, David Jones. Colette has Masters degrees in both English literature and Modern Irish and studied bookmaking, drypoint and copper engraving at the National College of Art and Design, Dublin. She has fifteen publications, her new collection of poetry and art, Réabhlóideach, is published by Coiscéim, Dublin, 2020. Her art, a copper engraving, Óglach, featured in the Art Trail during The Clifden Arts Festival 2021. These nine artworks are a mix of copper engravings, drypoint, watercolour, pen and ink, and monoprints. Colette based her recent collection of Irish poetry and visual artwork on revolutionary figures and these are portrayed in large monoprints which also feature text. Those not included in this are based on and influenced by the life and work of David Jones, his interest in all things Celtic. Colette is influenced by Jones’s unique use of text as art and his adaption of both modernist and late modernist aesthetic. DM Colette directly if interested in purchasing any of her featured work. - cnicaodha@icloud.com*Images photographed by Didier Riva

Once and Future King, monoprint, 30 x 36 cm. © Colette Nic Aodha

Players Please, Copper etching, 36 x 38 cm. © Colette Nic Aodha

Óglach, copper etching, size 36 x 38 cm. ©Colette Nic Aodha

Ancestors: Y Goddodin, drypoint, 30 x 34 cm © Colette Nic Aodha

Fuinneog 3, monoprint, 90 x 60 cm. © Colette Nic Aodha

Réabhlóideach 2, monoprint, 84 x 64 cm. © Colette Nic Aodha

Réabhlóideach 3, monoprint, 84 x 64 cm ©Colette Nic Aodha

Fuinneog 2, monoprint, 90x60cm ©Colette Nic Aodha

© Colette Nic Aodha

2021 december volume two © liveencounters.net

Colette Nic Aodha has exhibted her works with UachtarArts and collaborated with artist Kathleen Furey, historians Dr Mary Clancy and Dr Caitríona Cleer for the Resonance exhibition by Artspace. Colette is pursuing a PhD in the English department of NUI Galway on the work of Anglo-Welsh visual artist and poet, David Jones. Colette has Masters degrees in both English literature and Modern Irish and studied bookmaking, drypoint and copper engraving at the National College of Art and Design, Dublin. She has fifteen publications, her new collection of poetry and art, Réabhlóideach, is published by Coiscéim, Dublin, 2020. Her art, a copper engraving, Óglach, featured in the Art Trail during The Clifden Arts Festival 2021. These nine artworks are a mix of copper engravings, drypoint, watercolour, pen and ink, and monoprints. Colette based her recent collection of Irish poetry and visual artwork on revolutionary figures and these are portrayed in large monoprints which also feature text. Those not included in this are based on and influenced by the life and work of David Jones, his interest in all things Celtic. Colette is influenced by Jones’s unique use of text as art and his adaption of both modernist and late modernist aesthetic. DM Colette directly if interested in purchasing any of her featured work. - cnicaodha@icloud.com