Profile
Mary O’Connor is ready for her forthcoming solo show KEEL at So Fine Art Editions, Dublin (scheduled for opening May 7, due to Covid19, now postponed)
Mary’s screen prints and paintings are influenced by the vast landscapes encountered on her travels and conveyed through shapes, space and colours that emerge as non-representational abstract compositions. Cultures, travel, time, memory, flux and colour are essential elements of her work.
Born in Wexford, Ireland, a visual artist, and printmaker living in Sandycove, Co Dublin. She graduated from DIT and was awarded a residency in the Kilkenny Design Centre following this she moved to London, New Zealand and Belize. She has also lived in Kazakhstan for eleven years, a place of vast landscapes and infinite white winters; during her time there she published two books of photojournalism on central Asia. Mary repatriated to Dublin in 2015 and became a member of the Black church Print Studio.
Her work is included in many public and private collections including The Office of Public Works, The Environmental Protection Agency, Wexford County Council Collection, Waterford Beat FM, Wexford VEC Collection, Holles St, The Devlin Hotel, and Citi. She has exhibited in the RHA annual Exhibition, RUA annual exhibitions and Cairde. Most recently she completed four large-scale commissions in Capitol Dock, Dublin, and was recipient of the Galway County Council Purchase Prize at Impressions Biennale 2019.
