Body-positivity artist Clíodhna Doherty: ‘We should make every vacant and abandoned building a canvas for artists’

The Limerick painter on funding, disassociation and the things that inspire her

Artist Clíodhna Doherty

Saoirse Hanley

Body positivity artist Clíodhna Doherty is a graduate of the Belfast School of Art and a Newry native. Her work largely focuses on the female form. In May, she presented her ‘Emily’ painting at the International Fine Art Cannes Biennale, which took place during the Cannes Film Festival.

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