Join visual artist Andrea Kavanagh as she demonstrates creating botanical hanging plaques using plaster. Andrea will showcase her process using clay and local wild plants to create a mould for casting into plaster. She will explain the importance of local cultivated and wild flora to her practice and how she sometimes incorporates them in her delicate ceramic installations.
Andrea will hold a workshop of the process in October if you would like to try your hand at creating your own plaque.
About the artist
Andrea Kavanagh, a visual artist based in Rathfarnham, Dublin who graduated NCAD in Visual Arts Practice 2019. An award winning artist, whose sculpture is informed by her observations of the natural world around her and particularly observing its ephemeral and fragile nature. This fragility is echoed in the use of porcelain clay which has led to an exploration of the hanging of her sculptural works. Her work ranges from site specific installations to gallery exhibitions and commissions. Andrea has exhibited in many group exhibitions in Dublin and around the country and a highlight was being awarded The ESB Moran Award for Outstanding Sculpture at The 192nd RHA Annual exhibition for her work “Inner Sphere” in 2022. She was also shortlisted for The RCSI Irish Times Art Award 2022. Andrea has received Arts Council of Ireland funding in 2022 and 2023.
