'There were a lot of tears': Cork art project with a women's shelter
Ciara Roche, artist, with one of her pieces at the Glucksman.
Ciara Roche has a thing about painting people; she’d simply rather not. Her artworks, in oils on canvas or paper, are modest in size and tend to focus on slightly lonesome places – offices, bedrooms, petrol station forecourts – and they are always devoid of human beings.
“If you put in people, it’s like a barrier to the viewer,” she says. “I’d rather there was space to imagine yourself in the painting.”
