𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐫 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐩𝐞𝐭, 2025. Eileen O'Sullivan (@eilo8 ), with credit to maker Niamh McCartan.
Carpet, beads, 145 x 260 cm
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𝐏𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞, 𝐬𝐢𝐭, 2025. Eileen O’Sullivan (@eilo8 ), Co-created with Artist Eimear Murphy
Mixed Media Bench, 46 x 95 x 100 cm
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𝐀𝐫𝐜𝐡, 2025. Eileen O Sullivan(@eilo8 ), with credit to Sewing Technician, Brenda O'Sullivan.
Mixed Media on Wood Frame, 450 x 180 cm
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𝐒𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠𝟐𝟔 | Open Call Exhibition
Curated by Aisling Prior
Wed 04 Mar — Sat 02 May 2026
Ground & First Floor Galleries, Draíocht
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@Draiocht_Blanchardstown
Open Monday - Saturday 10am-6pm
📷 @lighthousephoto.ie
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@aisprior@fingalartsoffice@artscouncilireland@fingalcountycouncil
#DraiochtGallery #Blanchardstown #ArtCentre #Dublin15 #ContemporaryArt
Boxes (2025) oil on canvas, crayon on box. 90 x 66cm
On display at Herman's auction house Rathmines.
The spring Auction Ends 27th April
@hermansauctioneers
Behind the scenes - making the work that is in @draiocht_gallery 's Spring26 show opening tomorrow.
This piece is very tall. It was created to echo the environment in which it was made. While studying in NCAD, I was researching and reflecting on the
place of making in society today. NCAD has been a place of making before it was an art college – coopers, brewers, mechanics. I chose to take the blue doors as the shape of the support for this piece – inspired by the layers of mending and making evident in the layers of paint and visible mending on the doors themselves. I was reflecting on how long the place has been occupied by art students. You can see different ways and places I worked on the piece in NCAD. My mother assisted me with sewing the edges, laying the piece in the garden to do so – the piece too large for the house (I didn't want to get paint on Mam's furniture/floor). I created an expanded painting approach to display the work, creating a frame from which to hang the piece so it mimics the door opening. Institutions of making all have their own politics they carry with them. This work was made to pose a question on the relevance of making in society today; how is a piece made, where is it made and for who or how does it function socially, how does a
place something is made affect how it gains meaning. In my opinion, it is quite an apt subject for an exhibition that places value on works made by new grads, who are from/live in a Fingal.
The show opens tomorrow. Come along. Free to all.
Introducing our 𝐒𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠𝟐𝟔 Artists 📢
Eileen O’Sullivan | @eilo8
Eileen O’Sullivan is a visual artist from Ashbourne, based in Fingal who works within an expanded painting practice. Her current work critically explores the politics of making, mending, and visibility by engaging with material culture, domestic labour, and the aesthetics of repair. Using materials such as oil paint, supplies from the haberdasheries and DIY shops, found objects, and child friendly materials she embraces processes that question hierarchies of skill and labour.
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𝐒𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠𝟐𝟔 | Open Call Exhibition
Curated by Aisling Prior
🥂 Opening Wednesday 04 March. 7pm
Wed 04 Mar — Sat 02 May 2026
Ground & First Floor Galleries, Draíocht
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@Draiocht_Blanchardstown
Open Monday - Saturday 10am-6pm
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@aisprior@fingalartsoffice@artscouncilireland@fingalcountycouncil
#DraiochtGallery #Blanchardstown #ArtCentre #Dublin15 #ContemporaryArt
To do:
Digest what I did when I was in the Draíocht Residency; says the note on my studio wall
I think I'm digesting it.
In @draiocht_gallery I chopped things up.
I like seeing the value in materials. Same as when I was 5, using toilet rolls and butter boxes to create football players and treasure boxes. Why is a 'finished artwork' not a material? When should we allow something to take up space in storage or when should we use it?
I went to a talk in @firestationartistsstudios recently by @always_under_construction_hrm called "Waste Not, Want not". So energizing! One thing hit a nerve with me in the talk - an artist who remelted his past bronze works to make a new one. Onno Ponies' series "Undesirable Art Objects (Doorknobs). He used bronze door knobs originally commissioned for the Intercity trains, that were often subject to being ..'relocated'.. as a raw material. "Challenging conventional ideas of artistic permanence and exploring a new cycle of material transformation." (Pg.74 of Harriet Rose Marley's 'Waste Not, Want Not' Incomplete Manual for artists, technicians and Workshops) In 2019 I had a giant Curtain piece displayed in the Solstice art centre. Instead of continuing to carry the artwork around, from studio to studio, I decided it was time to cut it up. This question that Harriet raises - where do we source our materials from in something that I had been engaging with for my masters journey, from a side angle.
The residency gave me time and space to do what I needed to do. (in the video the sign above my head aptly cropped to "magic, space, art" ). For some reason cutting felt like what I needed. Chopping, reorganising, selecting, stacking.
At the same time, I was in Draíocht, I applied for a job in the Rediscovery centre.
I'm now the assistant manager of the Rediscover Paint department - in the Rediscovery Center in Ballymun, the national center for the circular economy. I'm surrounded by a whole building of people who care about where material comes from and where it goes.
Request:
If you have any of those Panda images saying you put things in the wrong bin - will you send them to me please? I think I want to paint inside the viewfin
ARTFORM AT THE DUNMORE
Artwork by (from left side): @eilo8 (invited), @julie.cusack (tutor at Artform, invited), @lizzie_kinsella (selected), @neildunnestudio (selected) is on view in Artform Winter Exhibition - @thedunmored6 Rathmines Dublin 6.
Guest-selector @ciara.roche . Curating by @biglook.art . Instal by @sideways_cowboy .
Exhibition is OPEN as per opening times of thedunmore.ie until the end of January. For enquiries: [email protected].
All artwork is available to view & purchase online at gallery.artform.ie/
(For this and other two Artform Winter shows please see links in @artformdunmoreeast IG bio.)
Presents for loved ones - an artwork that reminds you of them. A handy person who's shed is a magical place, the friend you always meet for coffee, your boss who you love but have no idea what to get.
Art.
Prices from 40€
#shoplocal #artforchristmas
A few colour studies made to figure out colour palettes. I think they'd add a nice bit of life to a white wall!
Link in bio
#shoplocal #giftideas
(Gimme some money for more art materials tanx XOXO )
Works on paper available on my website in time for Christmas presents. I'm pulling original drawings and paintings that are stacked in folders that would be lovely to see hanging.
Prices include postage.
Will post to Ireland.
Link in bio
I'll put more up during the week too!
Fingal County Council Arts Office in partnership with the RHA announce Eileen O’Sullivan, a visual artist based in Fingal, as the recipient of the RHA School Studio Award.
This prestigious award provides one professional artist a funded studio space in the RHA for one year beginning at the end of October 2025.
Eileen O’Sullivan is a visual artist based in Fingal who works within an expanded painting practice. Her current work critically explores the politics of making, mending, and visibility by engaging with material culture, domestic labour, and the aesthetics of repair. Using materials such as oil paint, supplies from the haberdashery and DIY shop, found objects, and child friendly materials she embraces processes that question hierarchies of skill and labour.
Eileen holds an MFA in Fine Art Painting from NCAD (2025) and a BA in Fine Art Painting and History of Art. She has exhibited widely, including recent shows at the Royal Hibernian Academy Annual, Rua Red, and Trinity College Dublin, as well as international festivals like Zeitgeist Berlin. Awarded the Arts Council Agility Award and the RHA Evans Painting Prize, she has also completed residencies at Draíocht and Cill Rialaig. She was shortlisted for the Hennessy Craig award in 2022. Alongside her studio practice, Eileen is active as an art facilitator and has contributed to programmes with organisations such as the National Gallery of Ireland, and Creative Ireland.
See https://www.fingal.ie/arts for further information
#FingalArts #FingalCountyCouncil #RHA
Thank you to everyone who popped in yesterday for Eileen's 𝐎𝐩𝐞𝐧 𝐒𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐨 which marked the end of her two-month residency with us in our Visual Artists Studio.
@eilo8@fingalartsoffice@artscouncilireland@fingalcountycouncil
#Draiocht #Blanchardstown #ArtGallery #ArtCentre #Dublin15 #FingalArts #Fingal #ArtistSupport #VisualArts #ArtistResidency #ArtistStudio #ContemporaryIrishArt #StudioLife #Process #Painting #CommunityArt
