Bio
Serena Caulfield is an artist who makes paintings. Primarily working in oil pain(t), she was once asked by another artist "Why are you like this?!" and is still trying to figure it out by making silly little (and big) pictures. Somewhere amongst the layers of stories and life experience, art histories and local mythologies, imagination and future concerns, past traumas and current frustrations, lies the answer. Or at least a fleeting attempt to pin one down. Or multiple narratives, that seem to change on an ongoing basis. Sometimes they get covered up, and more often they are revealed, sometimes in one brushstroke. What is important, we eventually discover, is the here and now... AND THE PAINT! The paint is important.
Though Serena lives and works beside the sea in rural Co. Wexford Ireland, she has exhibited widely. Recent group shows include 'Place' a collaboration with Ceadogán Rugmakers at The City Assembly House, Dublin; 7 Rue Froissart, Paris with The Black Chip; Growth of the Soil @ Kristin Hjellegjerde, London; Land(e)scapes at Art-Seen, Nicosia, Cyprus; Mythos, with Catherine Hammond Gallery, Cork, Ireland;, Spring and Summer Exhibitions with Solomon Fine Art, Dublin; WIDE OPEN SPACE, at Wexford Co. Council Buildings; BEEP Painting Biennial, Wales; GENERATION2022: New Irish Painting, Butler Gallery, Kilkenny; and Zurich Portrait Prize, at the National Gallery of Ireland and Crawford Art Gallery.
Solo exhibitions include Dream Baby Dream, Solomon Fine Art Dublin, (2024); The Remnants and the Ruins, RCC, Letterkenny (2024); Not somewhere else but here at Wexford Arts Centre, (2023) and Convergences at Ballina Arts Centre (2023). She is currently working towards her second solo exhibition with Solomon Fine Art, Dublin, in Summer 2027.
Awards include The Arts Council of Ireland Visual Arts Bursary, Platform 31 Artist Award, Artlinks Visual Arts Bursary and an Arts Council Agility Award. Serena has an MA in Fine Art from NUA, Norwich, UK (2009) and a BA from Gorey School of Art and Wexford Campus School of Art and Design, IT Carlow.
Her work is held in private, public and corporate collections nationally and internationally.