about me

ALANNAH BATES
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// Irish | Éireannach //

Practice spannning sculpture, installation, CGI, poetry and XR technologies (VR, AR, 3D modelling)

ALANNAH BATES CV

(b.) Republic of Ireland (based.) North of Ireland | https://www.alannahruth.org/ |

IN PRODUCTION

NOV 2025- MAY 2026

[in production] FIONNUALA, MY LOVE | Funded by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland

EDUCATION

2024. MFA | Belfast School of Art | First-Class Distinction.

2021. BFA | Limerick School of Art and Design | Sculpture and Combined Media

| First-Class Distinction

EXHIBITIONS (SELECTED)

2026. [group] Blink | PSsquared| Belfast.

2025. [group] A Common Longing | Reference Point | London

[group] The Earth, The Cosmos, And Us | a4sounds | Dublin

2024. [group] elsewhere | MFA Degree Show | Belfast School of Art

[group] pact.xiv | Arts For All | Belfast

2023. [group] cohere | Queens Street Studios | Belfast

2022. [screening/ exhibition] Dog Days | Alalímon Galeria | Barcelona

[group] HOMELAND | Roscrea Castle, Damer House, Tipperary

[screening/ exhibition] one hundred years | IndieCork Film Festival | Cork

2021. [online exhibition] LSAD Virtual Degree Show | online

2020. [group] Mixtape | South Tipperary Arts Centre | Tipperary

AWARDS // BURSARIES // RESIDENCIES // STUDIO MEMBERSHIPS

2025. Home Residency | Digital Artists Studios | Belfast

Support for Individual Artists Programme | Arts Council of Northern Ireland

2024. Agility Award | Arts Council of Ireland

Longlisted for RDS Visual Arts Awards

Studio Member | Flax Arts | Belfast

FEATURES AND PUBLICATIONS

2026. Digital Arts Studios // PSsquared.