SACHA HUTCHINSON ARTIST

Education
2010 BA in Fine Art and Design, CCAM at GMIT, Galway

Continuing Education
2023 Artform Waterford Plain air landscape painting, Dave West 
2023 Artform Waterford Portrait painting, Brian Smyth
2020 Engage Studios: Lino cut, Jonathan Brennan
2020 Galway Arts Centre: Portrait painting with oil, Caitlyn Rooke
2019 Florence Academy Stowe: Portrait painting, Toby Wright.
2019 St Ives School of Painting: Inside outside, Alice Mumford.
2019 Just Art It: Monoprint, Lino cut, Dry point
2018 St Ives School of Painting: Where sea meets land, Gary Long
2017 Norfolk school of painting: Master oils, Martin Kinnear 

Solo Exhibition
2021 'Forget Not' Anton's Galway 

Group Exhibitions
2024 Corrandulla Arts Trail, April to August
2023 Terra Firma Oughterard Courthouse Arts Programme
2023  'Salthill Reverie' Galway Arts Festival / Saolta Arts
2022 Coastal Birds Galway Aquarium
2021 British Art Prize Exhibition (shortlisted for prize) 
2021 Joint Exhibition at Renzo Café, Galway
2021 Cruinniú na mBád KAVA Exhibition, Kinvara, Co. Galway
2020 'Staying Local' Group exhibition at Anton's Café, Galway
2019 Two artists one exhibition, Joint Exhibition with Geraldine O’Rourke, at Renzo Café, Galway.
2019 A5 Exhibition KAVA Kinvara.
2016 Summer Exhibition at An Ceardlann, Spiddal Co. Galway
2010 CCAM Graduate Degree Show. Juried/Curated Exhibitions
2019 Poems for patience, University Hospital Galway, Saolta Arts
2018 Canvass to Canvas, Women of the West Galway Public Libraries
2010 Visual Arts Awards Exhibition, RDS, Dublin

Featured Illustration

2022 An Aitiuil - An Anthology September 2022
2022 Drawn to the Light Press October 2022
2022 Skylight 47 - Poetry Journal Spring 2022 

Published Writing
2023 Vox Galvia 
2023 Skylight 47
2022 The Storms issue 2
2021  How to Heal The Earth, Silver Birch Press
2021  Lothlorien Poetry Journal
2021 Drawn to The Light Press
2021 Pendemic
2020 Impspired volume 3
2020 Live Encounters  
2019 The Curlew, Dreaming the wild, poetry journal collected by UK national libraries
2018 Ropes NUI Galway
2018 Skylight 47.

Shortlisted Black Eyes Publishing  UK/ Gloustershire Poetry  competition 2022
Winner of Poetry for Patience- Cuirt/ Saolta Arts 2022
Featured Poetry Reader 'Over the Edge' literary event Nov 2021 
Shortlisted for Over the Edge New Writer of the Year in 2019  

Memberships
VAI Visual Artists Ireland
KAVA Kinvara Area Visual Arts
126 Artist-Run Gallery & Studios

Other Achievements
Founder Member:
The Hare's Corner Collective 2020
Art Exploration Group 2019
Founder Member: 6x6 Art Group
2017 Organiser Art Auction of Irish Artists at Educate Together National School, Newcastle.
Anatomy demonstrator: Sheffield University
Junior Training Officer: Spiddal Sailing Club
Commodore: Spiddal Sailing Club
Organiser: Medical Western Ophthalmic Group- medical education

Other Qualifications
Specialist in Medical Ophthalmology
MB.BCH. BAO LRCPI. SI. FRCSI. Ophth.