Lara Quinn: Cork artist inspired by the legend of Lilith
Crawford graduate Lara Quinn was the winner of the Lavit Gallery Student of the Year Award.
Lara Quinn was probably the only one surprised when she won a slew of awards for her degree show at the Crawford College of Art and Design in 2024. Her work - an installation of paintings and sculptural objects - was inspired by the legend of Lilith, who appears in Hebrew and Mesopotamian mythology as the first woman on Earth. Moulded from the same clay as Adam, she was said to have been cast out of Eden when she refused to obey him.
“I was looking for a mythological figure that I could project myself onto,” says Quinn, “and Lilith kept coming up. She was the subject of my thesis as well.”
