We’re very happy to spotlight the Tea Houses’ current artist-in-residence Edwina Bracken. Edwina is a painter based in Kilkenny city. Her current work presents stratified, abstract views of the Irish landscape, overlaid with imagined features of the virtual networks that govern our lives. The work seeks to explore the liminal moment between the material culture of the past and our existence in the digital world. This series of paintings will be exhibited at the Waterford Healing Arts Trust in the summer.
Edwina has exhibited in Ireland and Britain. She has participated in a number of practical and teaching residencies in the US, UK and Australia. Her first solo show entitled Remote Proximities in Edinburgh was listed in the top ten exhibitions in the UK to see, by Artist News. This show travelled to Aberdeen and to the RHA Gallery, Dublin with Hillsboro Fine Art. Further notable exhibitions include the Royal Scottish Academy Summer Shows, Generation Scotland at Paisley Museum and Irish Art in the UK, Westminster Hall, London. Edwina has an MLitt in Painting from the Glasgow School of Art and BA Hons from the National College of Art and Design in Dublin.
Her work is held in private collections internationally, including the HRH Prince of Wales Collection at Dumfries House Estate, and has been featured in various UK television, print, and online media.
Stay tuned for our upcoming open studio event, announcing soon!
- Image of Edwina Bracken infront of Gameplan, oil on board (2021/22).
- Image of Tea House studio.
- A Liminal Moment, oil on board (2024).
