You’ve got to keep working at your practice - that's why we call it a practice - Ciara Rodgers [29]

In this episode of the Warrior Artist Podcast, host Éadaoin Glynn interviews Ciara Rodgers, a visual artist based in Cork City who works from her studio at Backwater Artists Group. She has a BA and MA from Crawford College of Art and Design and works in an expanded drawing practice which includes polaroid photography, installation and performance.  Her work is often site specific, with the defunct and disappearing architecture of the urban landscape as her starting point.

Ciara discusses:

• How the frustration of COVID lockdown forced her to explore new areas in her practice
• Her love of the unpredictability of Polaroid photography
• Her public practice vs her private practice
• Performance drawing
• How the urban environment inspires herHer colour palette inspired by her 1980s childhood
• How she nurtures her practice and balances all her different mediums
• Balancing two teaching jobs with her studio practice
• Taking holidays from social media
• How she handles rejection
• The best advice she received as an art student
• Her advice for emerging artists

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See Éadaoin's work on her website and Instagram.

See Ciara's work on her website and Instagram.

This episode was edited by Podland