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Pamela Hardesty
Lecturer
Fine Art & Applied Art
BIO
AREAS OF EXPERTISE: FINE ART AND APPLIED ART IN THEORY AND PRACTICE; TEXTILES HISTORY, THEORY, AND TECHNIQUE; MAKING AND MATERIALITY, SPIRITUALITY
Pamela Hardesty, BFA, MFA, Irish/American; Her education evolved from an academic focus on art theory at the University of Chicago, to fine art in textiles at the California College of the Arts.
She has exhibited widely in glass, metal, paper, plaster, stone, cloth, and thread throughout Ireland and internationally, notably in London, Shanghai, Kaunas, Beijing, Krakow, Graz, Como, Helsinki, and Tokyo; with a 2018 solo exhibition in Norwich Cathedral, UK. Her work is in many public collections, including the Office of Public Works and University College Cork.
Pamela passionately promotes the culture of making and particularly of textiles practice, as a published writer, and as a lecturer instigating many exchange projects in textiles, particularly with Baltic universities; as founder of Cork Textiles Network; in her active years of Textiles Education and Research in Europe; and currently, as creator of annual CCAD MAKE Symposia since 2014, bringing eminent makers and academics to Cork for dialogue and connection.
RELATED COURSES:
BA (HONS) CONTEMPORARY APPLIED ART
