about

Natalie Deegan is the creator behind ARTlab tralee. In 1998 Natalie graduated with a B.A. in Fashion Design from NCAD, the National College of Art and Design, Dublin. She is a qualified secondary school teacher, with a Higher Diploma in Art and Design Teaching from LSAD, the Limerick School of Art and Design at the Technological University of the Shannon. Some of her design work was featured in the Irish Times newspaper and on RTE’s Nationwide. She worked for many years as a secondary school art, craft and design teacher and also has much experience working with primary school pupils. She is a fully vetted teacher, registered with The Teaching Council. She has completed workshops with secondary and primary schools all over Kerry for Kerry County Council’s Architecture Kerry Festival for the last four years.

Natalie designs and creates truly individual textile art pieces. She works mostly in appliqué, weaving and felt, media which lend themselves to creating texture, depth and an emotive sensory experience. Responding to her local area of Tralee and the Dingle peninsula, she is particularly drawn to the fascinating vitality and colours of the sea and the ever-changing textures of the land. The influence of the environment is almost always evident in her drawings, textile art, paintings and photography.