Name: Frances Crowe
Born in Waterford, Lives in Roscommon. Ireland.
Education: National College of Art and Design Dublin, Ireland.
Major Group Shows: Selected
2020 Courthouse Gallery and studios, Ennistymon, County Clare. These past few months.
2019 WAR: Working artists Roscommon Group show Roscommon arts centre.
2019 Heallreaf 3 International Exhibition of Contemporary Hand woven Tapestries. Surface Gallery, Nottingham, September 2019. And Espacio Gallery, London 15 th – 26 th October 2019.
2019 Premier International Tapestry exhibition. The Gallery at Queen Elizabeth park Community and Cultural centre, Oakville, Ontario, Canada.
2018 10 th From Lausanne to Beijing fibre art Biennale and symposium. Tsinghua University Art Museum. Beijing, China.
2019/18/17/16 Gathering King House Boyle. County Roscommon. Main Exhibition for the Boyle Arts Festival.
2018 Interconnections 2. King House Boyle County Roscommon and The Blue Egg Gallery Wexford.
2017 Thread Song, Glor Gallery Ennis Co. Clare.
2016 9th From Lausanne to Beijing International Biennale Exhibition and Symposium. Guan Shan Yue Art Museum, Shenzhen, Guangdong Province, China.
2016 Interconnections 1 The Core Centre, Roscommon.
2015 Textiles, paper and glass. Portfolio at Solomon fine arts, Westbury Mall Dublin.
2015 Entwined Memories, Design and crafts council of Ireland touring exhibition. Dublin, Sligo, England.
2015 Heallreaf an exhibition of miniature tapestry. West Dean College, Chichester. England.
2015 Shifting Perspectives Roscommon Visual Arts Forum, During the Boyle Arts Festival.
2015 Expanded Territories Harnessing Creativity, Leitrim Sculpture Centre, Manorhamilton, Ireland.
2015 Lonely Planet Luan Art Gallery Athlone, Co. Westmeath.
2014 Faces Touring Tapestry exhibition. Denmark, United Kingdom and Wexford.
2013 Sea Journeys Touring Tapestry exhibition. Scotland, UK and Denmark.
2013 Woven into Memory Blue Egg Gallery, Wexford.
Recent Solo Exhibitions
2016 A tapestry Journey Keith Nolan’s Photography studio, Carrick on Shannon, Co. Leitrim.
2015 Interwoven Memories Solas Art Gallery, Ballinamore, Co. Leitrim.
2014 Entwined Memories The Dock/ Leitrim Design House, Carrick on Shannon, Co. Leitrim.
2014 Reflections Boyle Community College, Boyle. Co. Roscommon.
2013 Threading Water The Grennan Mill, Thomastown, Kilkenny.
Awards
Individual Artists Bursary 2020/19/18/17/16/15/14: Roscommon Arts Office and County Council.
2016 Culture Ireland travel grant.
2011 Royal Dublin Society National Crafts Competition: First prize winner Tapestry weaving