Based in West Dublin, Debbie Chapman paints from her studio in Chapelizod beside the Phoenix Park. She exhibits internationally and has work in public, corporate and personal collections such as The Hermitage Medical Centre, Dublin, Waterford General Hospital, IT Tralee and the Naas Courthouse in Kildare.
She uses oil and mixed media on archival paper, wooden panels and canvas. While remaining fluid and versatile in her approach and choice of subjects, a common thread runs throughout the work; an attraction to the often unseen and unnoticed. Unnoticed moments that can either flash or languidly pass before us. Unseen characters that inhabit the spaces and worlds between us. Unnoticed parts of ourselves - but that recently, have revealed themselves a little more often perhaps.
Selected Exhibitions
Aug/Jan’21 Destination - No Longer A Place, Solo Exhibition, The Montenotte Hotel, Cork
Sept 2019 Shorelines Art Festival, Invited Artist, Portumna, Co. Galway
Aug 2018 The Kilkenny Art Gallery, Kilkenny Arts Festival, Group Show
July 2018 Ranelagh Arts Centre, Dublin, Group Show
July 2018 All Ireland Polo Club, Invitational Solo Exhibition
June 2018 Gallery Zozimus, Dublin 'Rainbow' Group Exhibition
May 2018 Ashtown Castle, ‘On Second Glance’ - Solo exhibition. Phoenix Park Visitors Centre, Dublin
Mar 2018 Phoenix Park Art & Creative Explorations Project - Solo exhibition.
Sept 2017 Crescent Arts Centre, Belfast ‘Queeriosity’ International Group Show,
Dec 2015 Still Point Art Gallery, Maine, USA - Juried Show and Publication
Sept 2015 Copelouzos Art Museum, Athens, (invitational) Permanent Exhibit & Publication
Mar 2015 Dublin City University, Juried Group Show, ‘Humans Too’
Nov 2014 Farmleigh Gallery, Dublin, Curated & Exhibited, Project Exhibition, ‘Dereliction’,
Dec 2012 ‘Debbie Chapman, New Works at Tamp & Stitch’, Dublin - Solo Show
June 2012 'Art In Action', Exhibition and Demo., Farmleigh, Dublin
June 2010 ‘Art In Action’, Exhibition & Demo., Townley Hall, Drogheda
Oct 2009 National College of Art & Design, Group Show, ‘Operation Art’, Dublin
June 2009 ‘Art In Action’, Exhibition & Demo., Townley Hall, Drogheda
Nov 2008 Invitational Group Show, Blackrock Hospice, Dublin
Oct 2008 K-Club ‘The Luxury Show’, Straffan, Co. Kildare
June 2008 ‘Art In Action’, Exhibition & Demo., Townley Hall, Drogheda
2007 Ashtown Castle, Solo Show, ‘In Leaving’, Office of Public Works, Dublin
2007 Invitational Group Show, Blackrock Hospice, Dublin
2005 Solo, ‘But for the Grace of Good’, Cocoon, Dublin
2004 Cockleshell Arts Centre, Solo, ‘Coming Out’, Wexford
2002 Fresh Art, Solo, ‘There and Back’, Launceston, Tasmania, Australia
Public Art
Jan 2018 - Dublin City Council project ‘Street Trees Matter’ Collaborative Public Artwork
May 2017 - Dublin City Council funded ‘Storyboards’, Chapelizod, Dublin
2016 - Dublin City Council awarded, Dublin Canvas Commission
2014 - Dublin City Council funded ‘Dereliction’ project and exhibition
2012/13 - Waterford General Hospital, Neo Natal Dept commission (7 pieces)
2009 - Institute Technology Tralee Library & Resource Info Centre commission
2007- ‘The Hermitage Medical Clinic’, Dublin. Commission (8 pieces)
Awards/Residencies
Aug 2019- BMYI, Youth Art Residency & Public Artwork, Clonsilla, Dublin
March 2019 Visual Artist in Prison Scheme, Dochas, Mountjoy Prison, Dublin
2017/2018- Irish Heritage Council Grant, ‘Phoenix Park Art & Creative Explorations'
Feb 2016- NYCI Ringsend Irishtown Youth Cafe 2016 Arts Residency & Collaborative art piece
Feb 2015 - NYCI Artist in Youth Work Residency, OPW Dublin Castle/South West Inner City Network June 2015 - Visual Artist in Prison Scheme, Wheatfield Prison, Dublin
2014- Dublin City Council Arts Grant, Arts Project ‘Dereliction’
2012 - 3rd Place 'Infinity Art Gallery - International Spring Expo 2010
2009 - Finalist 'Aesthetica Creative Works Competition 2009’ (18,000 entries)
