Kilkenny County Council, in association with Age & Opportunity and Tyrone Guthrie Centre, is pleased to announce that the recipient for the week-long residency at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre this year is the visual artist Caroline Schofield
The aim of the residency opportunity is to support a professional artist of 50+ to develop their practice, by creating time and space to think and reflect on their work and to bolster their peer network.
The residency will take place at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre, located in the beautiful, tranquil setting of County Monaghan and will provide an ideal environment to focus on research or the development of new work.
Caroline Schofield
Caroline Schofield is a visual artist whose practice involves working creatively with individuals and groups through a reciprocity of skill sharing, ideas and stories in participatory and collaborative Arts & Health contexts. Recent projects include working with Réalta/Waterford Healing Arts in the South East Palliative Care Centre, Waterford and a residency for the Irish Hospice Foundation in St Luke’s Hospital, Kilkenny.
Her artistic practice focuses on the human body, grief and loss through exploring mark making, drawing and installation. Current work explores the power of water in a series of contemporary drawings using her sea kayak as an easel.
Upon receiving the award, Caroline commented: “I am delighted to have been awarded an Age and Opportunity Bursary. This quality time will be used to research ‘working on water in my kayak’ using the lake & environment of Tyrone Guthrie.”
Recent exhibitions include ‘I brought the dream of flying’ with artist/puppet maker Corina Duyn at GOMA Gallery of Modern Art Waterford – and shown at Creative Brain Week 2023 – and ‘Into the Weave’ at the Lavit Gallery, Cork.
Schofield has work in public and private collections.
