Emer Gillespie | BIO
Solo Exhibitions & Projects
2015 Picture You, Picture Me, Riverbank Arts Centre, Newbridge, Ireland
2011 Home Narratives, RUARED Gallery, Dublin
2008 Trains,The Space, Hove
2008 Domestication, Riverbank Arts Centre, Kildare, Ireland
2007 Domestication, The Basement Gallery, Dundalk, Ireland
2006 Exhaust me, Galway Arts Centre, Ireland
Selected Group Exhibitions & Projects
2017 New Irish Works, Library project, Dublin
2016 Solas Ireland Award show, Fotohof Gallery, Salzburg
2015 Solas Ireland Award show, Gallery of Photography, Dublin
2015 Love will tear us apart, Centre Photographic, Claremont-Ferrand, France
2014 Perugia Social Photo Festival, Perugia, Italy
2014 How One Thing Leads to Another at Houston Centre for Photography
2014 Critical Mass, Cordon Potts Gallery, San Francisco
2013 Fotovisura curated show, PhotoVille, Brooklyn, New York
2013 Encontros da Imagem, International Photography Festival, Portugal
2013 The Space Between; The Lyrical & The Ordinary, V&A Museum of Childhood
2012 Photoville 2012 : FotoVisura's Women in Photography , Brooklyn Bridge Park, New York
2012 Arles Photography Open Salon, Arles, France (exh cat)
2012 Open Now, Gallery of photography, Dublin
2012 Open Now, Belfast Photo Factory, Gallery Nine, Belfast
2012 Shifting Perspectives 2012, OXO tower, Southbank London (exh cat)
2010 The Summer Show Project, Foley Gallery, New York (exh cat)
2011 Shifting Perspectives 2011, OXO Tower, Southbank, London (exh cat)
2010 IPA, best of show 2010, New York
2010 Home Truths, Brighton Photo Fringe 2010
2010 Fresh Faced and Wild Eyed, Photographers Gallery, London (exh cat)
2010 Slide Nite, Photomonth, Krakow, Poland
2009 Shifting Perspectives, OXO Gallery, Southbank, London (exh cat)
2008 XHIBIT 08, Davies Street, University of the Arts London (exh cat)
2008 Artists Film at the Collection, Usher Gallery, Lincolnshire (exh cat)
2007 Strikethrough at The Trafalgar, Trafalgar Square, London. www.strikethrough.org
2006 Max5 Festival, Southwark
2006 Document, Millennium Arts building, NUIG, Ireland (exh cat)
2005 Co-Lab, Tulca Arts Festival, Galway, Ireland
2005 Galway Film Fleadh, short film section, Galway, Ireland (exh cat)
2005 Praxis, Cork City of Culture 2005, Tig Fili Gallery, Cork, Ireland (exh cat)
2005 THE BOOK OF IDEAS, Art scene WAREHOUSE, Shanghai, China.
Publications and features
2014 Shot Through the Heart, The Irish Times, Jan 27th 2014
2014 GUP featured portfolio, May 2014
2014 Frankie Magazine, April, 2014
2014 Feature Shoot, featured portfolio, Jan 2014
2014 Huffington Post, Jan 2014
2013 Lenscratch, portfolio feature, Dec 2013
2013 Love will tear us Apart, Encontros da Imagem
2013 Fundamentals of Digital Photography, Bloomsbury Publishing
2013 F-Stop Magazine; Issue #57
2012 FOAM magazine, Issue #32
2012 Shifting Perspectives Book
2012 Photoworks showcase
2011 SuperMassiveBlackHole, Issue #8
2010 Esquire Russia, November issue
2010 Photovisura, featured work
2010 IPA Annual Book, Printed work
Fellowships, Residencies & Awards
New Irish Works, 2016
Solas Ireland Award, 2015
Critical Mass Top 50 Portfolios, 2014
Top Finalist, Fotovisuara Grant, 2013
Nominated for the Terry O’Neill award 2012
Bar-Tur Award 2011, short-listed
FFWE, Photographers Gallery, 2010
IPA 2010 Award, 1st in People: Family
Chosen as a Shots Young Photographer, 2008
Honourable Mention Recipient of PX3 2008
Artist in residency, Galway Mayo Institute of Technology, 2005/2006
Bank of Ireland student of the year 2005, Cluain Mhuire Art college, Galway
Education
2012 PGCE in post compulsory education, Brighton University
2009 MA Photography, London College of Communications
2007 PG Cert Photography (1st) Central Saint Martins
2005 BA (Hons) Textiles (1st), GMIT, Ireland
2003 BA Fine Art (1st), Galway Mayo Institute of Technology, Ireland