2025
Exhibition Residencies
Residency 16/5/24 - 26/5/24
Lucy Sheridan is a visual artist based in Kildare with a studio in Talbot Studios, Dublin. Lucy’s practice is process-driven, allowing space for the materials to dictate the direction of a given piece, with colour and materials at the forefront. Lucy employs materials like clay, paper mache, and paint to craft a cohesive body of work that can be appreciated as a unified whole.
Each ceramic object is hand-built, ensuring that no two pieces are the same. She uses glaze to decorate these objects, and the final glaze firing often results in surprising colours and tones—sometimes courageously brash and a bit awkward. Embracing failure is an essential part of her creative process.
Lucy embraces the imperfections of each piece—they are not refined objects but rather invite viewers to question their understanding of what constitutes a 'well-made' piece of ceramic work. This playful exploration engages with taste, value, and association.
Lucy Sheridan
Lucy Sheridan is a visual artist. recent exhibits include; Matters of Table (group), Gorey School of Art, 2023; Portals (group), Luan Gallery, Athlone, 2023; Pay no Attention to that Man Behind the Curtain (two person show with Eleanor McCaughey), Complex Gallery, 2022; Crucible (group), Thameside gallery, London, 2022; Oddly Accurate Things (two person show with Eleanor McCaughey), 126 Galway, (2019). Lucy participated in Peripheries POST, Gorey School of Art in 2022/2023 and MASS Correspondence Course 2020/2022. Lucy graduated with a BA in Fine Art from the National College of Art and Design in 2006.
Awards include the Agility Award, Arts Council Ireland, 2023 & 2022; Kildare County Council Arts Act Grant, 2023 & 2022. The DLR Emerging Artist Bursary 2022; Travel and Training award, Arts council Ireland in 2010. Lucy has had residencies in Cill Rialaig, Kerry 2022, 2021, 2017 & 2014; SIM, Reykjavik, Iceland, 2010 and The Guesthouse, Cork, 2011
Past Residencies