Trinity College Dublin acquires work by OCG artist Claire Halpin

The Olivier Cornet Gallery is delighted to announce that Claire Halpin’s ‘Prism Panopticon’, oil on canvas, 50x80cm (2014) was recently acquired by Trinity College Dublin for the TCD Art Collections as part of the ‘Provost’s Fund for Contemporary Art’.

We are reproducing here the great text Catherine Giltrap, Curator and Head of the University Art Collections, emailed to the artists whose work was also acquired as part of this fund:

“Artworks in the Collection will be placed on display in various parts of the University - focusing on student areas and places like the Provost's Office for maximum engagement with students, staff, visitors from all walks of life and for all kinds of reasons and purposes. It will like all our existing artworks, live a varied life, being rotated throughout the College, building interesting histories and biographies in themselves with all the people they meet and with whom they will engage - they may find themselves being lent out to external exhibitions one day too. Know that they will live and breathe and move through our campus and that they will impact so many people's lives, this is certain. TCD Art Collection had over 3000 artworks displayed in up to 500 locations at any one time.

Know that your artworks will form a part of how our institution hopes to inspire wellbeing and creative curiosity in generations of people who connect at Trinity.”