Mairead O'hEocha
Mairead O'hEocha makes paintings which re-interpret landscape, still-life and domestic interiors. Her work offers a form of ambiguous time travel through art history and her own lived experiences. The work exhibited is part of a series started during the extended period of confinement of 2020-2022 and the restrictions imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic. The paintings appear like a glass calendar to mark points in time. Featuring various objects, a crystal globe, a teacup, a spider in a bell jar, they each act out different scenes as the table below floats in and out from the facts and furnishings of its surrounds. Light glares throughout the works to allow the paintings respond to space, colour and form on their own terms.
Mairead O'hEocha
Altar for Slippery Rocks, 2024
Oil on Board
65 x 80 cm
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Altar for Slippery Rocks, 2024
Oil on Board
65 x 80 cm -
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December Cloud, 2023
Oil on Board
80 x 65 cm -
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April Seance, 2023
Oil on Board
80 x 65 cm -
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Flower, Bird, Shell. 2024
Oil on Board
65 x 80 cm
Biography
Mairead O’hEocha is an artist based in Dublin. Recent solo exhibitions include: Light Spells Enter, P420 Gallery, Bologna, 2023, The Pane Fly’s Tune, mother’s tankstation Ltd., London, 2023; Tale Ends and Eternal Wakes, Temple Bar Galleries and Studios (2019-2020); the Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin (2011 & 2015). Her work is held in the collections of the Irish Museum of Modern Art, the National Gallery of Ireland, the Arts Council and the Office of Public Works. She is a graduate of National College of Art and Design, Dublin and Goldsmiths, University of London. Her work is represented in a number of exhibitions and publications that have explored contemporary painting practices, including: Slow Painting, Hayward Gallery Touring Programme, UK (2019-2020); A Painter’s Doubt, Salzburger Kunstverein (2017) and Vitamin P3: New Perspectives in Painting), published by Phaidon, 2016. She was elected to Aosdána in 2020. She is currently a resident of The Villa Concordia, Bamberg, Germany until March 2025. Forthcoming: Solo exhibition of new works at The Model, Niland, Sligo in July 2025.
