A Libertine Feast - Exhibition by Camilla Hanney

In collaboration with Throwing Shapes & Staycity

A Libertine Feast is a new large-scale ceramic installation by artist Camilla Hanney, created as a love letter to The Liberties and presented as part of Culture Date with Dublin 8. Raised in Dublin 8 and returning through the 2026 Clay City Residency, Hanney draws on the area’s rich social history, resilience and enduring sense of community to create a lavish banquet in clay that celebrates the neighbourhood’s legacy of craft, trade and kinship.

Overflowing bottles of Guinness and whiskey, piles of biscuits recalling the old Jacob’s factory, a ceramic suckling pig, platinum-lustre platters and candelabras all come together in a ceremonious feast shaped by local folklore, domestic ritual and culinary memory. Working primarily in porcelain with gold and pearl lustres, Hanney explores themes of labour, loss, time, remembrance and excess, using clay as a way to hold traces of the past. Both intimate and theatrical, A Libertine Feast reimagines The Liberties through a contemporary ceramic lens, where refinement and imperfection sit side by side, and history is transformed into something sensual, strange and deeply felt.

Monday 4 - Sunday 10 May

Free Event

No Booking Required

About Camilla

Camilla Hanney (b. 1992) is an Irish artist living and working in London. She is a Graduate of Goldsmiths University Masters of Fine Art programme (2017-2019) and also Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology (Visual Arts Practice 2010-2015).

Since moving to London, her work has been exhibited by a diverse range of galleries including the South London Gallery in conjunction with Bloomberg New Contemporaries, No. 20 Arts, Muse Gallery, Dora House, Messums, Cynthia Corbett Gallery, The Rosenfeld Gallery and Cromwell Place Gallery. Camilla was the 2019/20 recipient of the Sarabande foundation studio bursary.

She was granted the UK Young artist of the year runner up award at its inaugural award ceremony which was held at the Saatchi . She received the ‘Committee's Choice’ prize at ‘Exceptional’ an exhibition of recent graduate work at Collyer Bristow Gallery and was recipient of the zealous: Sculpture stories prize.

In 2020 she was selected as one of the Gilbert Bayes Sculpture Award winners and was granted the 2020 Irish Visual Arts Bursary Award. Camilla received a Glass lab award in 2021, providing her with a 3 month residency at the Cotswolds Glass foundry. She was recipient of the 2022 Newbury Trust Craft Excellence Award in conjunction with Cockpit Arts and was chosen for the 2022 Artist initiated projects in conjunction with the Irish arts council, granting her a funded solo show at Pallas Project Gallery, Dublin.

Her most recent exhibition ‘A Common Thread’ was held in Linenhall Arts Centre, Ireland. Her work has been featured in articles by Ceramic Review, Crafts Magazine, Elephant Magazine, wallpapermag, Showstudio, Mission Mag and Harpers Bazaar.

More Info

Duration: Opening Hours

Age Suitability: All Ages

Accessibility: Not Fully Accessible

Location: Tailors Hall, 8 Back Ln, The Liberties, Dublin 8, D08 X2A3