Siobhan Cox-Carlos is an Abstract Artist based in the West of Ireland. She graduated from GMIT and Limerick School of Art & Design with a B.A Fine Art (Hons). She is best known for her contemporary, innovative colour use and composition. Her work is often inspired by her native Co. Roscommon, Ireland, where she finds inspiration in the hedgerows, flowers and grasses. Siobhan intends her art to be an uplifting and immersive experience, inviting the viewer to contemplate her exploratory and energetic use of colour and subject matter.
Selected Solo Exhibitions:
Carnival: Hambly & Hambly, Enniskillen, August 2019; Cass Art, Islington, London, April 2018 and Boyle Arts Festival July 2018 Glas: City Hall, Providence, Rhode Island, March 2018; Genesis: Sol Art Gallery, Dawson St., Dublin and Solas Art Gallery Ballinamore; Meadowfield: Roscommon Arts Centre.
Selected Group Exhibitions include:
Enlighten, Hambly & Hambly Summer Exhibition, Enniskillen June - ongoing;
Imagine, Online Exhibition (due to Covid Pandemic) Hambly & Hambly, Enniskillen May,2020 - May 2021
Christmas Online Fair, Luan Gallery, December 2020
Hambly & Hambly, Summer Exhibition 2019;
Boyle Arts Main Exhibition, King House, July 2017;
Boyle Arts Festival, RVAF Group Show, July, 2015.
Juried shows with Lake Worth Art League, Florida Spring 2013.
Collections:
Siobhan’s work is held in Roscommon County Council Civic Collection, OPW State Art Collection, National Cancer Screen Service (for which she was awarded a % for Art Scheme in 2010), Holles Street National Maternity Hospital, Dublin and the Dept. of an Taoiseach.
Her work is also held in private collections nationally and internationally.
Education & Professional Development:
2003-2004: Limerick School of Art & Design, B.A.Fine Art (Hons.)
1997-2003: Galway/Mayo Institute of Technology, Diploma Art & Design
Awards:
Multiple Artist’s Bursaries for Materials and New Work by Roscommon County Council -
2018 Tyrone Guthrie Award (Roscommon Arts Office)
Numerous residencies in the Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Co. Monaghan and in the Cill Rialaig Art Project, Co. Kerry.
Three month Arts Residency in the Las Olas Arts Centre, Fort Lauderdale in 2004/5.
ARTIST'S STATEMENT
SIOBHAN COX-CARLOS, B.A. (Fine Art)
Siobhan Cox-Carlos is a painter, known for her use of vibrant colour and love of texture and pattern. Cox-Carlos was awarded an honours degree from Limerick College of Art & Design(2004)
"My work is mainly influenced by my love of nature, in which I am immersed in my native Co.Roscommon, Ireland. I find inspiration in the hedgerows, flowers and grasses growing wild in my surroundings and am equally appreciative of the beauty beyond my local landscape. I intend the viewing of my art to be an uplifting experience and use a vibrant range of colours, textures and patterns.
Above all I hope that the viewer will forget all of what is going on in the present turbulent times and experience even a moments joy and happiness in the presence of one of my pieces"