Kathy Prendergast (born 1958), is an Irish sculptor, draftsman, and painter.

Life

Prendergast was born in 1958 in

Dublin Dublin is the capital and largest city of Republic of Ireland, Ireland. Situated on Dublin Bay at the mouth of the River Liffey, it is in the Provinces of Ireland, province of Leinster, and is bordered on the south by the Dublin Mountains, pa ...

. She studied at Manor House School,

Raheny Raheny () is a northern suburb of Dublin, Republic of Ireland, Ireland, halfway from the city centre to Howth. It is centred on a historic settlement, first documented in 570 AD (Mervyn Archdall (Irish antiquary), Mervyn Archdall). The district ...

, and pursued third-level studies at the National College of Art & Design, graduating in 1983. She then went to the

Royal College of Art, London The Royal College of Art (RCA) is a public research university in London, United Kingdom, with campuses in South Kensington, Battersea and White City. It is the only entirely postgraduate art and design university in the United Kingdom. It offe ...

from 1983 to 1986. She won the Best Young Artist Award in 1995 representing Ireland at the

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, having first attended ten years earlier in Paris. Prendergast was also the inaugural recipient of the David and Yuko Juda Foundation Prize. Prendergast is particularly known for her City Drawing project which she began in 1992. She detailed pencil maps of the world's capital cities, now the work is part of the permanent collection of the

Irish Museum of Modern Art The Irish Museum of Modern Art (), also known as IMMA, is Ireland's leading national institution for the collection and presentation of modern and contemporary art. It is located in Kilmainham, Dublin. History Irish art collector Gordon Lam ...

. Her work is held in galleries around the world. She has lived in

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since 1983. Prendergast is a member of

Aosdána Aosdána ( , ; from , 'people of the arts') is an Irish association or academy of artists, each of whom must have produced a distinguished body of work of genuine originality. It was created in 1981 by the country's Arts Council on the initiati ...

Exhibitions

* Unit 7 Gallery, London (1987) * Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin * Camden Arts Centre, London * Memento Metropolis, Copenhagen (1996) * Tate Gallery, London (1997) * Robert Miller Gallery, New York (1998) * Irish Museum of Modern Art (1999)

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