2014
CERAMICS OF EUROPE - 13th Westerwald Prize, Keramikmuseum Westerwald, Germany. FIRST PRIZE: VESSEL
European Parliament Strasbourg, France 2015
K-Hof Kammerhofmuseen Gmunden, Austria 2015
Stadtmuseum Siegburg, Germany 2015

EUROPE & BEYOND, twelve artists in clay, a Peppercanister Gallery Exhibition in Dublin Castle - Picture

CENTRED, Ceramics Ireland, Farmleigh Gallery Dublin

LIFE LINES, GalerieFranzis Engels, Amsterdam

RAW ART FAIR Rotterdam with Galerie Franzis Engels

KunstRAI Amsterdam with Galerie Franzis Engels

ROYAL ULSTER ACADEMY OF ARTS, 133rd Annual Exhibition, Ulster Museum Belfast

LUID EN DUIDELIJK, KuuB, Utrecht

2013
SOLO: SCULPTER LE VIDE: Deirdre McLoughlin, Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris - catalogue

JANUS, Peppercanister Gallery Dublin

THREE CERAMIC SCULPTORS: Deirdre McLoughlin, Sonja Landweer, Cormac Boydell, Fenderesky Gallery Belfast

SCULPTUUR EN ARCHITECTUUR, Oude Kerk, Amsterdam

SPRING EXHIBITION 2013, Peppercanister Gallery Dublin - catalogue

FUTURE BEAUTY, National Craft Gallery Kilkenny

LANDescape International Ceramics, Mark Rothko Art Centre, Daugavpils

2012
SOLO: SHAPING THE VOID National Design & Craft Gallery Kilkenny - curator Ann Mulrooney - catalogue

SOLO: SHAPING THE VOID Wandesford Quay Gallery Cork

Marian Bijlenga - Geert Steyn - Thijs Buit - Deirdre McLoughlin Galerie De Kapberg, Egmond aan den Hoef

2011
transFORM, Ceramics Ireland Farmleigh Gallery, Dublin

Art & Antiques Fair 's-Hertogenbosch with Bruijstens Modern Art

VUE Dublin with Peppercanister Gallery

2010
Royal Hibernian Academy Annual (also 2008, 2006, 2005, 2000, 1996,1992)

SELECT Peppercanister Gallery Dublin

Marian Bijlenga, Kees de Vries, Simon Oud, Ike van Cleeff, Deirdre McLoughlin Galerie Franzis Engels, Amsterdam, with

2009
CERAMICS OF EUROPE 12th WESTERWALD PRIZE , Keramikmuseum Westerwald, Germany - catalogue -

EENVOUD, Museum Nagele

CULTURAL INFLUENCE: from Traditional Expression to Modern Context, Indiana State University, USA.

SOLO Deirdre McLoughlin, Stadsschouwburg Utrecht

2008
SOLO: DEIRDRE McLOUGHLIN Peppercanister Gallery, Dublin

Ceramic Congress & Exhibition VII, Afyon Kocatepe University, Turkey

FAMILIAR FACES, Works by Influential Women Artists from the Patrick J. Murphy Collection, Bourn Vincent Gallery, University of Limerick

WALL AND PLINTH, Peppercanister Gallery, Dublin

2007
GYEONGGI INTERNATIONAL CERAMIC BIENNALE/KOCEF, Korea

IRISH CONTEMPORARY CERAMICS, National Museum of Ireland

Deirdre McLoughlin - Mieke Mens - Marian Smit, Galerie De Kapberg, Egmond a/d Hoef

2006
EUROPEAN CERAMIC CONTEXT, Bornholm

TEN YEARS IN THE MAKING, East–WestCeramics Collaboration IV, University of Hawaii at Manoa.

ART FROM STATE BUILDINGS, Farmleigh Gallery, Dublin

2005
SIAR 50, Irish Museum of Modern Art

IRISH CERAMICS OT THE 21TH CENTURY, National Museum of Ireland

ORGANIC ABSTRACTION, Garth Clark Gallery New York

Deirdre McLoughlin, Marieke Pauwels & Beatrijs van Rheeden, Frank Steyaert Gallery, Ghent

2004
WESTERWALD PRIZE, CERAMICS OF EUROPA 2004, Keramikmuseum Westerwald FIRST PRIZE: VESSEL

Deirdre McLoughlin & Wicher Meursing, SBK, Amsterdam

2003
SOLO: DEIRDRE MCLOUGHLIN Peppercanister Gallery, Dublin

2002
20 jaar Beeldhouwerscollectief ABK, Kasteel Museum Sypesteyn

2000
ARTISTS' CENTURY, Irish Self-Portraits and Selected Works 1900-2000, RHA Gallagher Gallery Dublin

IRISH CONTEMPORARY CERAMICS 2000, Ulster museum Belfast - toured

DRIE BEELDHOUWERS Anneke de Witte – Marianne van der Kooij – Deirdre McLoughlin, Fort Rammekens, Stedelijk Museum Vlissingen

1999
SOLO: DEIRDRE MCLOUGHLIN Peppercanister Gallery, Dublin

1998
DE HORTUS ALS LUSTHOF, Amsterdams Beeldhouwers Kollektief, Hortus, Amsterdam

1997
Showcase, Crafts Council London,

Sonja Landweer & Deirdre McLoughlin, Galerie Amphora, Oosterbeek

Irish Contemporary Ceramics, Dublin - Sligo - Limerick - Belfast

1996
SOLO: Galerie Maas, Rotterdam

INNOVATION FROM TRADITION - Irish Art, EU Buildings, Brussels

1994
SOLO: RECENT WORKS Deirdre McLoughlin, Green on Red Gallery, Dublin

1993
SOLO: RECENT WORKS Deirdre McLoughlin, Ulster Museum Belfast and Limerick City Gallery of Art curator Michael Robinson

CIAS Members’ Collections, Irish Museum of Modern Art

1992
NEW ACQUISITIONS, The National Self- Portrait Collection of Ireland, University of Limerick

SOLO: Galerie Maas, Rotterdam

1991
CONFIGURA 1, Kunst in Europa, Erfurt, Germany

ESPACE ’91, Gallagher Gallery, Dublin.

1990
CONTEMPORARY ARTISTS FROM IRELAND, Austin/Desmond Fine Art, London

SOLO: Galerie Ram, Arnhem

1987
FOUR CERAMIC ARTISTS, Sonja Landweer, Cormac Boydell, Deirdre McLoughlin & Marie Foley Fenderesky Gallery, Belfast

1986
OB'ART Paris

1984
SOLO: SCULPTURE Gallery Beni, Kyoto

INDEPENDENT ARTISTS, Municipal Museum Kyoto,

1982
EVA, Sixth Limerick Exhibition of Visual Art

1974
LIVING ELEMENTS Jim Galligan - Michael Lee - Anthony O’Brien - Deirdre McLoughlin, Neptune Gallery, Dublin

Public Collections

Icheon World Ceramic Center, Korea

National Museum of Ireland

Ulster Museum, Belfast

Keramikmuseum Westerwald, Höhr-Grenzhausen, Germany

Museum het Princessehof, Leeuwarden, Netherlands

Frank Steyaert Museum, Gent, Belgium

Arts Council of Ireland

Limerick City Gallery of Art, Ireland

St. Patrick’s Seminary, Carlow, Ireland

Allied Irish Bank

Farmleigh House, Dublin, Ireland

Ofﬁce of Public Works, Ireland

National Self-Portrait Collection of Ireland, University of Limerick

Hunt Museum, Ireland

Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

Lotte Reimers - Stiftung, Diedesheim, Germany

About

I graduated with a BA in Humanities from the University of Dublin,Trinity College. In 2021 promoted by Patrick J Murphy I was awarded with an Honorary Doctorate / Honoris Causa for my life’s work as a visual artist.

In a studio on the Keizersgracht in Amsterdam a lump of clay and an invitation to make something was, I did not know it then, to be my future. Between times in the studio making forms to an end I did not comprehend I acted in short movies taking classes in the Stanislavski method.

The events in Northern Ireland in 1981 galvanised my mind to clarity. I realised the shapes I was making in the studio were a language of expression. As a composer finds sound, a painter colour and a writer words I found form in clay and it was what people called art and was necessary. There was no choice but to commit myself and to this end I went to Kyoto where the Sodeisha Group the best in my field were based. I lived and worked there for three and a half years with a rough studio on the edge of Kiyomizu. Honing my coiling skills under the eye of Tosai Sawamura the elder, I was deeply inspired by the works of Hayashi Yasuo and Arioka Susumu - both artists put me on my mettle. With an introduction from Regina Altherr to Gallery Beni Kyoto I held my first solo exhibition in 1984. I then travelled throughout China from Hong Kong to Kashgar visiting areas of interest in the ceramic field - Liling, Jingdezhen and cultural sites amongst which the far end of the Great Wall, the Bezeklik Caves, Terracotta Warriors…

I’ve acted as external examiner, given workshops, lectured and taken part in international symposiums.

I’m based in Amsterdam with a studio in Xpositron, an eco friendly facility on the edge of town.
Everything I know is in my art work, I don’t always understand what I know.

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