The Age & Opportunity Tyrone Guthrie Centre Residency Award, in partnership with the Kilkenny County Council Arts Office, aims to support professional artists aged 50 and above in developing their practice. The residency creates time and space for them to think and reflect on their work. This award was a collaboration between the Kilkenny County Council Arts Office and Age & Opportunity, in association with the Tyrone Guthrie Centre. This opportunity provides one successful artist with a unique environment to focus on their creative practice.
This year, artist Caroline Schofield was successful in receiving the funded week-long residency at the Tyrone Guthrie Centre, which included a small stipend.
On receiving the award Caroline says:
I am delighted to have been awarded an Age and Opportunity Bursary.
This quality time will be used to research ‘working on water in my kayak’ using the lake & environment of Tyrone Guthrie.
About Caroline Schofield
Caroline Schofield is a visual artist whose practice involves working creatively with individuals and groups through a reciprocity of skill sharing, ideas and stories in participatory and collaborative Arts & Health contexts. Recent projects include working with Réalta/Waterford Healing Arts in the South East Palliative Care Centre, Waterford and a residency for the Irish Hospice Foundation in St Luke’s Hospital, Kilkenny.
Her artistic practice focuses on the human body, grief and loss through exploring mark making, drawing and installation. Current work explores the power of water in a series of contemporary drawings using her sea kayak as an easel
Recent exhibitions include ‘I brought the dream of flying’ with artist/puppet maker Corina Duyn at GOMA Gallery of Modern Art Waterford – and shown at Creative Brain Week 2023 – and ‘Into the Weave’ at the Lavit Gallery, Cork. Caroline Schofield has work in both public and private collections.
