SINEAD BARRETT

Sinéad Barrett is a Cork-based visual artist and Programme Coordinator with Sample-Studios. She has over twenty years of experience in working in the education and business sectors in partnership with organisations locally, nationally and internationally and she is on the Management Committee for Cnoc Buí Arts Centre. In 2014 she returned to education to study Fine Art, graduating from Crawford College of Art and Design in 2019. She was awarded the CIT Presidents Prize for outstanding studentship and she also received a Crawford College of Art and Design Graduate Residency award for the Materials Store for 2019/2020. She was also awarded the Sample-Studios Graduate Curatorial Residency Award 2019/2020. She is very active in her own artistic practice, having secured numerous exhibition opportunities since graduating and her work is held in both public and private collections. She received an Arts Council Visual Arts Bursary in 2021 and is on the  Arts Council Peer Panel 2021-2026.