Ciara Roche is a painter based in Ireland. She makes hundreds of small paintings on paper and some larger paintings on canvas. Her paintings are restless and full of detail, they are an exploration of light and colour, they can be uncanny, they can be off kilter. They are full of tension – between reality & fiction and between desire & disgust.
She makes painting after painting and displays them in a grid like fashion in her studio and sometimes in the gallery.
She is recipient of the 2022 Next Generation Award, numerous Arts Council & ArtLinks Bursaries and won the Éigse Graduate Prize for outstanding work in VISUAL with Carlow Arts Festival in 2020.
