Orla Barry is an Irish artist who works in a variety of media: performance, video, text and sound. She also runs a flock of pedigree Lleyn sheep on the south coast of Ireland.Orla Barry Bio
She is lecturer at the Institute of Technology, Carlow and a former Advising Researcher at the Jan Van Eyck Academie.
Biography She lived for 16 years in Brussels and now lives and works in County Wexford in the South-East Ireland where she runs a flock of pedigree and Lleyn sheep.
She has had performances at Performatik 17,Performatik 17 Brussels, Dublin Theatre Festival,Dublin Theatre Festival the Project Arts Centre,The Project Arts Centre Dublin; Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels (BOZAR), Brussels, the South London GalleryThe South London Gallery and the Tate Modern, London; If I Can't Dance,If I Can't Dance De Appel, Amsterdam; and The Playground Festival,The Playground Festival Leuven.
She has also had solo shows at Mu.Zee, Oostend (with Els Dietvorst), Crawford Art Gallery, Cork. ARGOS Centre for Art and Media,ArgosARGOS Centre for Art and Media Brussels. Temple Bar Gallery and StudiosBreaking Rainbows Orla Barry and Mother's Tankstation, Dublin; Cultural Centre of Belém (CCB), Museu Colecção Berardo, Lisbon with ; Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst (S.M.A.K.), Ghent; Camden Arts Centre, London; and BOZAR, Brussels. She has been awarded the prize of the Palais de Beaux Arts in the Prix de la Jeune Peinture Belge in 2003 and was short-listed for the Glen Dimplex Prize in 1999.
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