Sarah Buckley

sarsbuck@gmail.com /sarahbuckleyartist prism-salmon-ff44.squarespace.com

About the member

Sarah Buckley is a visual artist based in North Cork. She graduated with a BA in Visual Art (Sherkin Island) in 2018 and is currently undertaking a Special Award in Textiles (Level 8) in the Crawford College of art and design. Her work has been exhibited in Ireland and the UK and she received an Arts Council Agility Award in 2021. She has also been appointed as curator for this years EMERGE exhibition by Cork Craft and Design in August 2024.

Education

2022 – 2024: Art Textile: Level 8 Special Purpose award in Crawford College of Art & Design
2014 – 2018: BA (Hons) in Visual Art (Sherkin Island), Dublin Institute of Technology
2003 – 2005: Postgraduate Diploma in Irish and Scottish Studies, University of Aberdeen (Literature and History)
1999 – 2000: Postgraduate Diploma in Irish Heritage Management, University College Cork
1994 – 1998: BA (Hons) in Liberal Arts (English & History), Mary Immaculate College, Limerick

Exhibitions

2024 Soulful Threads – joint show with Claire O’Reilly, West End Arts Studios (October 2024)
2025 Solo show scheduled with Signal Arts Centre, Bray, Co Wicklow (May 2025)
2025 Solo show scheduled with Blackwater Vallery Makers, Fermoy, Co Cork (July-Aug 2025)
2024 Past, Present, Future, Perfect – The National Design & Craft Gallery, Kilkenny
2024 Follow the Red Thread – West End Art Studios, Mallow
2024 Arts Fest 3: Engaging – Arts For All, Belfast
2024 Ariadne’s Thread – Art Textile Special Award final show – MTU CCAD Gallery, Cork
2024 MAKE 2024 Exhibition: Material Line – MTU CCAD Gallery, 46 Grand Parade, Cork
2024 Members Show – Lavitt Gallery, Cork
2023 Small things like these – Cork County Library Headquarters, Cork
2023 In the wings – West End Art Studios, Mallow
2023 Stitch by Stitch – Willow Gallery, Oswestery, Shropshire UK
2023 Summer of Love – Courthouse Gallery, Ennistymon, Co Clare
2022 Culture Night Group Show – West End Art Studios, Mallow
2021 Artform Annual 44 Winter Exhibition – Artform, Dunmore East, Co Waterford
2021 May Festival Art Trail – Greywood Arts, Killeagh, Co Cork (invited artist)
2019 Reality or Dream – West End Art Studios, Mallow (co-curated and exhibited)
2019 AIT Exhibition – Newmarket, Co. Cork
2019 ForM Sculpture Exhibition – Bangor Walled Gardens, Bangor, Northern Ireland
2019 Within these walls – Greywood Arts, Killeagh Co Cork (ladder residency and artist talk)
2018 Art Appliances – Mallow Arts Festival, Mallow (co-curated and exhibited)
2018 A Dialogue with the World: B.A.V.A Graduate exhibition – Uillinn: West Cork Arts Centre, Skibereen and Sherkin Island, Co. Cork
2017 This is not a FAS building – Mallow Arts Festival, Mallow
2017 From Context to Exhibition: The Learning & Development programme, Create – The LAB Dublin

Sarah
Buckley

Working mainly in textiles while also incorporating sculpture and installation, Sarah’s work is a personal exploration of childhood memory, trauma, experience and identity. Playing on emotive motifs of childhood, her work delves into the psychological impact of having two infantile haemangiomas (benign vascular birthmarks). This exploration has led her to expand her curiosity and enquiry into psychic wounds, social acceptance of difference and visual impairment. Interested in engaging discussion around childhood memory and perception, she uses the medium of textiles for its accessibility of understanding, associations of childhood and slow, mediative production. Her exploration of childhood memory, trauma, and identity through the medium of textiles offers a deeply personal yet universally resonant perspective, addressing the complexities of difference and the lingering impacts of early experiences.