Madigan holding one-day spring art exhibition

Ballyalla-based artist Carmel Madigan is holding her one-day spring art exhibition in Dromoland Castle on Sunday, March 21.
Carmel represented Ireland at the Florence Biennale in 2009 and she is currently working towards her first exhibition with the Amsterdam Whitney Gallery in New York this coming May. She will also be exhibiting back in Italy later in 2010.
Carmel was born and grew up on the edge of the Atlantic Ocean on the Loop Head Peninsula. In her paintings she strives to simplify the complicated and she paints the fierce and angry ocean. Rocks feature strongly in these works.
Having graduated from the University of Limerick with a degree in business, Carmel worked in a number of different industries including the US multinational company Tellabs Ltd, before setting up her own graphic design agency.
She later took her creativity and need for self-expression a step further and began capturing images on canvas and paper.
Carmel’s work has been collected both nationally and internationally by corporate and private collectors, including Bank of Ireland, the Irish Department of Defence, Invesco Ltd, Dromoland Castle, Ross Hotel Killarney and the Maldron Hotel.
Carmel has exhibited widely throughout Ireland in a series of one-man shows, in Dublin, Cork, Galway, Killarney and annually in her flagship solo exhibition at Dromoland Castle.
She was also selected to exhibit at the Greystones Arts Festival on two successive occasions. In 2006, she exhibited at Sala Barna, Barcelona.
In 2009, Carmel was highly honoured by an invitation from the Florence International Selection Committee to represent Ireland at the seventh International Biennale dell Arte Contemporanea in Florence in December 2009.
Carmel has just recently returned from this stunning show of 650 exhibiting artists from 72 countries worldwide.