Patricia Looby lives and works in Ireland. Her work has been exhibited widely in Ireland in both solo and group exhibitions and is included in several important public and private collections including the Crawford Museum in Cork. Her most recent solo show ‘Harvester’ originated at Temple Bar Gallery and subsequently traveled to several other venues in Ireland. She was invited to contribute to ‘An Leabhair Mor” (the Big Book) – a recent large scale project to create a contemporary illuminated manuscript of recent poetry and art by writers and painters from Celtic countries. Folklore, Alchemy, transformative processes, the role of animals in Celtic, Greek and Egyptian mythology and the myths, legends and lore surrounding them are strong influences on her work.

Patricia Looby will have a solo show of new work at DCP in August 2008.