Beata Daly

Beata Piekarska-Daly is a Polish-born and an Irish-based visual artist, who is environmentally and socially engaged through her multidisciplinary art practices (i.e. painting, environmental installation, video, photography and performance).

From 2008 the artist has been living and working in one of Dublin’s university where she explores the value of art in the educational and university context. She was a founder and director of Abbey Studios, established in 2016. Daly’s most current exhibitions include: Over Nature, a group touring exhibition across Ireland; Summer School on Cultural Diversity and Collaborative Practice Residency, a partnership between Create and Counterpoints Arts; TESLA, a locally based video-sound installation and winner of the 1st Prize in Painting Category and the Grand Prize winner during Polska-Eire Festival, 2019.

Beata Piekarska-Daly has moved between painting, installation, experimental education and ephemeral installation since she graduated from the multi-media department of the Institute of Fine Arts in Zielona Gora near Poznan, Poland in 1999. Her thesis "New Awareness in the Vehicle of Art" was based on the work and practice of Jerzy Grotowski and caused a stir in the Final Exam Panel as j...

2008-2009 Oxford University, GB, Continuing Education, Understanding Modern Art.

2004-2005 Trinity College Dublin, TRIARC, IE, History of Art in Irish Context.

1994-1999 University of Zielona Gora, PL, Fine Arts Education, Master Degree.

1990-1993 Radom College of Education, PL, Diploma in Multimedia Education, B.A.

Selected Solo Show

2019 20th of March, TESLA: paintings, video and sound installation. Environmental and ephemeral one day neighbourhood event in Dublin 8,(IE).

2018 Jan, AT THE BORDERLAND exhibition @Black Box, Green Room; Belfast,(NI/GB).

2017 September, Notes from the Heart of the City - Curatorial Project,(IE).

2017 (05/05-01.06) Illumination in Purkinje Shift, Gallery Project M @MottAttoM, Geneva,(CH).

2013 NEST workshop for young children and Land Art installation. Trinity College,(IE).

2012 KANTOR Land Art in Trinity College Dublin, IE.

2010 Trinity Visual, Oisin Gallery, Feeder Reviewed by Seán Kissane at the opening,(IE).

2009 FEEDER - Land Art in Trinity College football/rugby/cricket ground,(IE).

2008 BOOK Land Installation, Trinity College,(IE).

2006 Our Believes, Waterstones Gallery, Dublin,(IE).



Selected Group Show

September 2019 - June 2020 OVER NATURE - Touring group exhibition curated by Valeria Ceregini:

* 7 – 29 Sep 2019, Roe Valley Arts & Cultural Centre, Limavady (Northern Ireland, (GB);

* 17 – 26 Oct 2019, Sample-Studios, St Luke's Crypt, Cork (IE);

* 14 Nov – 21 Dec 2019, OPW – Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin (IE);

* 6 Feb – 7 Mar 2020,R.C.C. – Region...