Ciara Rodgers

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About Ciara Rodgers

https://ciararodgers.com Instagram:@ciaraarodgers Ciara Rodgers is a visual artist and academic based between Cork and Waterford and works across drawing, installation, performance, and Polaroid photography. Her practice explores the entanglement of body and building, tracing how power, gender, and capitalism shape our physical and psychological experience of space. Through walking and material reconfiguration, she constructs fragile yet defiant assemblages and situations that expose the quiet contradictions and resistances embedded within urban environments. Looking between what shelters, confines or controls, Rodgers’ work occupies the threshold between the poetic and the political, the embodied and the architectural. She holds a First-Class Honours MA in Art & Process from MTU CCAD (2018). A studio member of Backwater Artists Group and Cork Printmakers, she was awarded a Visual Art Bursary from the Arts Council of Ireland in 2020 and an Agility Award in 2021. Her work has been exhibited widely in Ireland and internationally, and often unfolds through collaboration and site-responsive research. Solo presentations include Folly | Façade at GOMA, Waterford (2024), Green Mouth at SIRIUS, Cork (2023), A City of Beautiful Nonsense at Studio 12, Cork (2022), Monuments II at Garter Lane, Waterford (2020) and Monuments of Abandoned Futures at LHQ Gallery, Cork County Council (2019). Ciara Rodgers currently lectures on the BA (hons) Visual Art programme at SETU Waterford where she is engaged in a practice as research PhD.