Julia Pallone: 'Collage is less scary for me than drawing or painting'

Kinsale-based artist Julia Pallone tells Marc O’Sullivan Vallig about her collage work and being inspired by her family’s search for a permanent home

Julia Pallone traces her interest in art to her childhood in France

It is eighteen years since the French artist Julia Pallone moved to Ireland, settling in Kinsale, Co Cork, where she has become very much part of the creative community.

Pallone is one of four artists – along with Sarah Iremonger, Don Cronin and Stephen Brandes – from the Kinsale/Inishannon area currently showing in the Coalescence exhibition at the Lavit Gallery in Cork.