Annette Hennessy is from Cork now living in North Antrim. She is a sculptor who has worked internationally, and on public sculpture commissions throughout Ireland. She has broad experience in working with wax and bronze particularly in figurative sculpture.
Anette was a former Executive Member of the Association of Artists in
Ireland. She has also a good deal of experience in devising and running Children’s Art Workshops. Her work is in both private and public collections throughout Ireland.

EDUCATION
1976-82 Crawford College of Art and Design, Cork: Foundation; Diploma; Post Graduate Study Year in Fine Art; Principles in teaching Art.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1988 Triskel Arts Centre, Cork.
1991 Triskel Arts Centre, Cork.

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1987 “Cork Artists Collective Show”, Crawford Art Gallery, Cork.
1989 “Four Cork Artists”, Riverrun Art Gallery, Dublin.
1990 “Cork Artists Collective Selected Show”, Irish Life Gallery, Dublin. “Southern Artists Show”, Cork Arts Society, Lavitts Quay, Cork.
1991 “E.S.P.A.C.E.”, R. H. A. Gallagher Gallery, Dublin.
1992 “Aer Rianta Homecoming Festival”, Cork Airport.
“Expo 92”, Irish Pavilion, Seville, Spain.
1993 “Aer Rianta Gateway to Art Festival, Dublin Airport.
Eurothreshold”, Exhibition as part of Eurovision Song Contest, Millstreet, Cork.
“Eigse”, Carlow Arts Festival.
“Cork - Krakow Cultural Exchange”, Pryzmat Gallery, Krakow, Poland.
1994 “The Green Show”, as part of Songs of the Reaper Theatre Festival, Project Art Centre, Dublin
“Woman, Image, Text,” University College Cork.
“Southern Artists”, Cork Arts Society, Lavitts Quay, Cork.
“Siolru”, Celebration of the National Maternity Hospitals’ Centenary, RHA
Gallagher Gallery, Dublin.

1995 Cork Arts Society, Summer Show, The Lavitt Gallery, Cork.
I.A.A. Congress Exhibition, Tclaxcala, Mexico.
1996 C.A.S.E., The Lavitt Gallery, Cork.
“The Figurative Show”, Vanguard Gallery, Macroom, Cork.
1997 Aer Rianta “Gateway to Art” Exhibition, Dublin Airport.
2000-01 “Icons of Identity”, Thematic Exhibition, Ulster Museum, Belfast.
2002 “Strictly Personnel”, Engineroom Gallery, Belfast.
“Cork Graduates Show”, Tigh Fili’, Cork.
“Sculpture At Kells”, Kells Mill, Kells, Co. Killkenny.
2006 Kinsale Arts Week, KAW Gallery, Kinsale.
2007 Through Irish Eyes, Exhibition, Beijing Institute of Graphic Art, China. (Eight Bronze Sculptures). Curated by Fion Gunn and supported by Culture Ireland, The Irish Arts Council, and The Irish Embassy in Beijing.

RESIDENCIES, COMMUNITY ART PROJECTS, AND SYMPOSIUMS
1989 “Wexford Movement Month”, Wexford Arts centre.
1989-90 Artist - in - Schools, Triskel Arts Centre, Cork.
1992 “S.S.I. Brick Symposium”, Kingscourt Brick Factory, Co. Cavan.
1993 Mahon Community Art Project, Cork, in association with Triskel Arts Centre.
1994 Art Workshops/BusProject involving Community Groups in Mahon and
Knocknaheeney, Cork.
1995 Skibbereen Famine Symposium, The Work House, Skibbereen, Cork.
1997 “ Meitheal” Irish Artists in the Artists Museum, Lodz, Poland, Residency and Exhibition.
2000-06 Children’s Workshops in Schools, Art Centre & Environmental Centers in N.I.

COMMISSIONS
1990 “Woman and Child”, Bronze, Douglas Court Shopping Centre, Cork
1994 “Seekers of Knowledge”, Bronze, University College Cork.
1995 Installation, ‘Famine Yesterday & Today’, U.C.C., Cork.
“Man With Birds”, Bronze, Cork Co. Council.
1996 Installation, ‘Famine Yesterday & Today’, Tufts University, Boston, U.S.A.
1997 Awarded “St. Patrick’s Commission, The Hill of Tara. Commission never placed.
2000 Short-listed Artist for Buckingham Street Memorial Commission, run by the Fire Station Artists Studios, Dublin.
2006 Ballysally Community Art Commission, Co. Antrim, N.I. (in collaboration with Brian Connolly.)

AWARDS
1993 Arts Council Travel Bursary for Travel to Krakow, Poland
1994 Arts Council Community Arts Award.
1997 Arts Council Art Flight

TEACHING EXPERIENCE
1982-88 Part time Art Teacher, Mayfield Community School, Cork.
1989-90 School Visits as part of the Artists into School Scheme, Triskel Arts Centre, Cork.
1992-97 Waterford Regional Technical College, Art Dept., Visiting Lecturer.

MEMBERSHIP
Artists Association of Ireland, Sculptors Society of Ireland, National Sculpture Factory.
1989 - 91/1993 - 97 Executive Member, Artists Association of Ireland.