Open Studio
with Lorna Corrigan

Lorna Corrigan will open her studio to the public on Thursday 25th September from 2pm - 3pm.

Lorna has been Artist-in-Residence for the month of September, where she has been developing a new body of work, inspired by the museum environment and the Butler Gallery collection.

Visit our Garden Studio to see Lorna's artistic process and artworks in stages of development.

Lorna Corrigan’s Artist Residency is part of a supported, inclusive and accessible artist-led residency programme at Butler Gallery, where a selected artist from KCAT Arts Centre has the opportunity to develop a new or existing body of work in the museum context.

About the artist:

Lorna Corrigan has been a member of KCAT studio since 2004. She has exhibited internationally, including at the Galleria Art Kaarisilta Helsinki Finland, Art Brut Biennale Hengelo the Netherlands, Gallery Prabbeli Wiltz Luxembourg, Goetheanum Dornach Switzerland and Freight Gallery Fremantle Australia. She has also shown extensively in Ireland, including at the F.E. McWilliam Gallery Banbridge, Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre, Riverbank Arts Centre Newbridge, Crawford Art Gallery Cork, Butler Gallery Kilkenny, Laois Arthouse and Jennings Gallery University College Cork. Lorna features alongside her KCAT colleagues in the documentary Living Colour (2011) by Wildfire Productions. Her work is also featured in several publications, including The Engagement Project KCAT 2014-2020 (2020), Perceptions: The Art of Citizenship (2016), Art & Inclusion: The Story of KCAT (2009), Visible Visions (2004), IWTK (2015) and the retrospective catalogue Lorna Corrigan (2023).