Mary O’Connor

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Biography
Mary O’Connor is a visual artist who makes paintings, screen prints, and large-scale wall murals using bold abstract geometric designs and a strong colour pallet. Wexford born, Mary now lives in Dun Laoghaire, Dublin.

She studied visual communication and 3D design at DIT in Dublin, and painting at Chelsea College of Art, London, and in New Zealand. She has also lived in Belize and Kazakhstan, a place of vast landscapes and infinite white winters; during her time there she published two books of photojournalism on central Asia.

Mary’s paintings and prints are influenced by her surrounding, the landscapes encountered on her travels are conveyed through shapes, space and colours that emerge  as  non-representational abstract compositions. Cultures, travel, time, memory and flux are essential elements in her work.

Her work is included in many public and private collections including The OPW, The Environmental Protection Agency, Holles St. Hospital collection, and CITI

Solo Exhibitions
2024 Ten, SO Fine Art Editions, Dublin
2023 Transpose, Wexford Library, Wexford festival Opera, Wexford
2023 Stacks, The Pigyard Gallery, Wexford
2021 The Box at The Wexford Hub, Wexford festival Opera, Wexford
2020 KEEL, SO Fine Art Editions, Dublin

Selected Exhibitions
2024 / 2021 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London
2024 / 2023 / 2022 / 2021 / 2019 /2018 Royal Hibernian Academy, Annual Exhibition, Dublin
2024 Abstract Boundaries presents ‘Play area’ curated by Claire Provost and Decoy
2024 Bucolica, Mount Congreve Gardens, Curated by Artform
2024 District 13 Art Fair, Drouot, Paris with SO Fine Art Editions
2024 Monochromatic, curated by Catherine Daunt and Peter Brennan, Graphic Gallery, Dublin
2023 / 2022 / 2018 – 137 / 141 / 142 Royal Ulster Academy, Annual Exhibition, Belfast
2023 / 2022 Art Riddler, Shortlisted for the Art Riddler Award
2023 Small things like these curated by Emma Dwyer, LHQ Gallery, Cork
2023 Ballinglen Museum of Art, first Biennial Exhibition, Ballycastle, Mayo
2023 The Lido Open 2023, Margate, Kent UK selected by Charles Williams
2023 Block Party, Charlemont Square curated by Al Maser
2023 Mermaid Twenty One, Selected exhibition celebrating 21 years
2023 Chaos / Order curated by Ann Mulrooney, dlr Open Exhibition
2023 First Impressions, curated by Shane O’Driscoll, Blue House Gallery
2023 Ceadogan ‘Island’ Exhibition. Charity auction in aid of Peter McVerry Trust
2022 Rally, Group Exhibition at Glovebox Gallery, Dublin curated by Ronan Dillon
2022 Wide Open Space, Wexford County Council and Mairead Furlong Collection curated by Eamonn Maxwell
2022 Cape Sacred, West Wales Art Centre and The National Opera House, supported by Culture Ireland, curated by Wex Art Fest
2022 Concrete x Canvas, Outset Gallery Galway curated by Tom McClean
2022 Emerging Practice, Curated by Donna Romano, 40 years BCPS
2022 CAIRDE Visual, The Hamilton Gallery, Sligo
2022 Shortlisted Beep Painting Prize
2022 The works we thought we had, Limerick City Museum curated by Dr Matthew Potter and Maurice Quillinan
2022 Paipear, Group Exhibition, Hand Tough Contemporary, Dublin
2022 / 2020 Paintbox Wexford
2022 / 2020 / 2019 / 2018 / 2017 So Fine Art Editions, Winter Exhibition, Summer Exhibition, Dublin
2021 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London
2021 Invited to Hit The North Wall Mural Festival, Seedhead Arts, Belfast
2021 Cherrywood Art Commission
2021 HOST, Group Exhibition, The Dean Art Studios, Dublin and The Vault Studios, Belfast
2021 / 2019 Artform Summer exhibition series
2021 / 2019 / 2018 / 2017 / 2016 Greenacres Wexford festival Opera, Wexford
2020 / 2019 Over Nature, Curated by Valeria Ceregini. Luan Gallery, Athlone. The Courthouse Gallery, Ennistymon. Regional Cultural Centre, Letterkenny. OPW Rathfarnham Castle, Dublin. St Lukes Crypt Cork, Sample Studios. Roe Valley Arts and Cultural Centre, Limavady
2020 Pandemme Pop Up
2020 / 2019 / 2018 / 2017 / 2016 Halftone, Photo Ireland
2021 / 2020 / 2019 / 2018 Discover Print, Greenacres, Wexford
2020 / 2019 / 2018 44 The Quay, Waterford

Selected Awards / Residencies
2024 TOP TEN, Time Out Magazine review of the RA Summer Exhibition London by Editor Eddy Frankel
2024 Residency and Fellow of Ballinglen Museum and Arts Foundation, Co Mayo
2024 Prints purchased by the Imperial Charity UK for Hammersmith Hospital, London
2023 Painting purchased for DLR County Council Municipal Collection
2022 Artlinks Bursary Award funded by Wexford County Council Arts Office
2022 Look Up (UK)
2021 Agility Award funded by The Arts Council Ireland

Collections
IPUT; OPW, Office of Public Works; DFA, Department of Foreign Affairs; Imperial Charity UK, Hammersmith Hospital London, UK; Business to Arts Collection; The Leinster Art Collection; Dun Laoghaire Rathdown County Council Municipal Collection; Ballinglen Arts Foundation Museum Collection; Environment Protection Agency; The Devlin Hotel, Collection; The Dean Hotel, Cork; The Dean Hotel, Galway; Wexford County Council, Municipal Collection; Galway City Council Collection; Beat FM Waterford; Holles St. Hospital, Dublin, Collection; Ferry Carrick Hotel, Wexford; VEC, Wexford; Deloitte, Almaty; Grolsch, Almaty; Citi Bank, Almaty; Shymbulak Ski Resort, Almaty; Belize Audubon Society;