Deirdre O'Mahony

Artist Bio

Deirdre O’Mahony has an impressive 30 year track record in making work across sculpture, painting, installation and participatory projects. At the centre of this work is her interest in the politics of landscape, rural/urban relationships, rural sustainability and food security. She has investigated the political ecology of rural places through public engagement, exhibitions, critical writing, and cultural production. From setting up community spaces amongst a charged local conflict to her large-scale paintings produced by tracing the shadows of boulders on Mullaghmore Mountain in the Burren National Park, she deftly considers the role of art in bringing together diverse communities, alternate forms of knowledge, embracing art as a critical space to help us see things differently.

Her most notable and recent exhibitions include the Douglas Hyde Gallery of Contemporary Art, Trinity Collage Dublin (2024) and Butler Gallery, Kilkenny. (2022) O’Mahony has been awarded Arts Council of Ireland Project Awards (2021/2023/2024), Bursary Awards (2024/2023/2022), the Irish American Cultural Institute Prize (2018) and a Pollock-Krasner Fellowship (1995). Her work is in the Arts Council of Ireland and the Irish Museum of Modern Art collections as well as public and private collections. Academic awards include St Martins School of Art, London, (BA); Crawford College, Cork (MRes.) and the University of Brighton (PhD).

Website: www.deirdre-omahony.ie

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