Members Presentation meetings give members a much-needed opportunity to present their work to their peers, in a safe and supportive environment. It’s a great way to meet fellow members, share what you are currently working on and to practice speaking about your work. The speakers will be Deirdre Frost and Oonagh Hurley

Deirdre Frost works primarily in oil painting on wood, using imagery from local built and natural environments, reconfigured in order to consider new narratives.

Frost holds a BA (Hons) in Fine Art from MTU Crawford College of Art & Design (2020) and spent part of her studies on Erasmus in the University of Art & Design, Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Recent solo and group exhibitions include Tumbling Earth, Kevin Kavanagh, Dublin (2025), Magic and Loss, Kevin Kavanagh, Dublin (2024), Stories of Art: Selected works from the UCC Art Collection, The Glucksman, Cork (2024), Civilisation Blooming/文明開花, Deirdre Frost and Seiko Hayase, Lavit Gallery, Cork (2024), Field Trip, Lavit Gallery, Cork (2024), Big Crush, Solo Exhibition, Kilkenny Arts Festival (2023), Generation 2022: New Irish Painting, Butler Gallery, Kilkenny (2022). Frost’s work is represented in the collections of UCC Glucksman, OPW State Art Collection, Dublin City University and Cork City Council. Frost is represented by Kevin Kavanagh, Dublin.

Oonagh Hurley is a painter based in Cork. Her work is mainly figurative, investigating the processes of remembering and forgetting. She has exhibited with the Catherine Hammond Gallery since 2014. Her work has been selected for RHA and RUA annual exhibitions 2019, and Boyle Arts Festival 2018. She recently exhibited her ‘Women Unremembered’ series of portraits in The Atrium City Hall Cork (March 2019), in celebration of International Women’s Day and the naming of the new pedestrian bridge after Mary Elmes, one of her subjects in the portrait series. She was awarded the Percent for Art Commission for Cork Opera House in 2020. She has an upcoming Solo exhibition in the Cork County Council Programme in LHQ gallery in County Library in April 2022. She has been a visiting professional artist to first year architecture students (reviews of their brief to design an artist’s residency) in Cork Centre for Architectural Education (CCAE). She works from a studio in Marina Commercial Park, Cork.