Helen Devitt augments her architectural practice and specialised area of conservation and adaptation of historic buildings with her art practice. Helen undertook a degree in fine art at the Crawford College of Art & Design Cork, graduated with first class honours in 2014 and was awarded the CIT CCAD Print Bursary award and an OPW Purchase Prize for printworks exhibited at the Crawford Degree Show, Na hOibreacha, in June 2014.

Working intuitively through a number of media including painting, printmaking, photography and sculpture, the Irish landscape, both natural and man-made, is explored. Her training and practice as an architect for over two decades has informed this exploration and the making of place and a sense of place is re-imagined in her work through surface and material in which a resonance of a culture and history is embedded.

Exhibitions

2022 192nd RHA Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts Annual Exhibition

2021 Winter Open 2021, The Courthouse Gallery & Studios, Co. Clare, (Group Exhibition)

2020 Winter Open and Trasna X 202’, The Courthouse Gallery & Studios, Co. Clare, (Group Exhibition)

2019 The Kenny Art Gallery, Galway City, Main Exhibition

2018 ‘Art & Architecture’, The Lavit Gallery, Group Exhibition. OPW Purchase

2016 The Postcard Show, Sirius Arts Centre, Cobh
Dazzle, Cork Printmakers, Wandesford Quay, Clarke’s Bridge, Cork City
25, Cork Printmakers, The Atrium, Cork City Hall
Liam Ronayne Selects, The Lavit Gallery, Cork

2015 Lie of the Land, Sirius Arts Centre, Cobh

2014 Fledglings, The Lavit Gallery, Cork
Na hOibreacha, CIT CCAD Degree Show, OPW Purchase Prize

2013 Are We There Yet, CIT CCAD 3rd Year Exhibition, Cork