ARTIST BIOGRAPHY
Alan Raggett (b.1977, Kilkenny, Ireland) is a visual artist, living, and working in Kenmare, Co. Kerry
Raggett is a fully committed and energised professional with a strong track record as a practicing artist, art collections coordinator and project manager, working for 25 years in the arts industry in Ireland, alongside curators and other artists to bring exhibitions to domestic and international audiences
Working primarily in oil paint, Raggett’s work is ambitious, original, and distinctive. It deals mainly with the abstraction and retelling of the source image. Images, found and self-documented, are retold by means of collage, rephotographing, cropping and manipulation. These manipulated images become the starting points for his paintings where he explores ideas of repetition, contemporary landscape, and storytelling
He has exhibited regionally and nationally, and his work is held in private collections worldwide.
Selected Solo Shows
March 2024
GRILSE GALLERY
-be good if you can-
Killorglin, Co. Kerry
2016
UNDERTOW
Kilkenny Arts Office, 5 Dean St, Kilkenny
Selected Group Shows
2024
Salon du Kerry, Crane Visual, Cork
‘Bucolica’ Open call, Mount Congreve Gardens, Waterford.
K-FEST, Killorglin, Co. Kerry -KFEST ART PRIZE Finalist 2024
2022
Grilse Gallery , Killorglin, Co Kerry
2021
COURTHOUSE GALLERY
Open Call | Winter Open. Courthouse Gallery, Ennistimon, Co. Clare
ARTFORM
Open Call, The Annual 44, Waterford. (Invited artist)
2020
RUA RED
Winter Open “Hindsight is 2020”, Rua Red, South Dublin Art Centre, Tallaght, Dublin 24
COURTHOUSE GALLERY
Open Call | Winter Open. Courthouse Gallery, Ennistimon, Co. Clare
2019
LEGACY
30th Anniversary of the Boyle Arts Festival, King House, Boyle, Co. Roscommon.
2018
ARTFORM
Annual Contemporary Art Fair, Waterford.
2017
ALTERNATIVE KILKENNY ARTS
Kilkenny Arts Festival, The Goods Shed, Kilkenny
40 THE QUAY
40 The Quay, Waterford
2007
CONVERSE
South Tipperary Art Centre, Clonmel, Tipperary
2007
NEW WORKS
Blackbird Gallery, Kilkenny
Residencies
2023
Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Annaghmakerrig, Newbliss, Co. Monaghan.
2018
Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Annaghmakerrig, Newbliss, Co.Monaghan.
2017
Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Annaghmakerrig, Newbliss, Co.Monaghan.
2008
12-week residency at Pisac Arts Centre, Pisac, Peru.
Bursaries
2022
Agility Award round 2 2022
PLATFORM 31 artist scheme 2022, Kerry.
Fingal County Council, Artist Support Scheme 2022.
2021
Agility Award Round 2, 2021
2020
Fingal County Councils Artist Support Scheme 2020
2019
Artlinks Bursary 2019, emerging artist award.
2017
Kilkenny County Council, Tyrone Guthrie Bursary.
2013
Council of National Cultural Intuitions Conservation Training Bursary
2011
Professional Development Award, ArtLinks Bursary Programme
2008
Arts Council of Ireland, Travel and Training award
Education
2012/14
MA Preventive Conservation, Northumbria University, Ellison Place, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 8ST, UK
2000-04
HND Fine art painting and drawing, Kilkenny School of Art and Design, Ormond College, Kilkenny, Ireland
1995-96
NCVA in Animation and drawing studies, Ballyfermot Senior College, Ballyfermot, Dublin 20, Ireland