Mairead O’hEocha; Solo Exhibition
Tue. 8 Jul. – Sat. 20 Sep. 2025
Opening Sat. 5 Jul.
Curated by Michael Hill
Mairead O’hEocha’s recent paintings cast an array of extraordinary and everyday tabletop scenes: birds invading a garden lunch; an octopus in a trophy room; a fake loaf of bread at the tenement museum. Tables float in and out from the facts and furnishings of their surrounds. The artist’s new works consolidate a variety of recurring themes: how to depict ‘the natural world’ and our relationship with it, sensory encounters, and digital space.
The exhibition will span four galleries in The Model, and include several new large-scale oil paintings. A small number of recent works from international exhibitions will add to this overview of the artist’s practice. The selection will specifically incorporate scenes of display, from museum dioramas to arranged flower bouquets, referring to a cabinet of curiosities or salon d’automne.
Artist Biography
Mairead O’hEocha’s solo exhibitions include P420, Bologna (2023); mother’s tankstation London (2023, 2018); Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin (2020); mother’s tankstation Dublin (2016, 2012); The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin (2014, 2011), Butler Gallery, Kilkenny (2011).
Her work has been represented in a number of international group exhibitions and publications that have explored contemporary painting practices, including Slow Painting (curated by Gilly Fox and Martin Herbert), Hayward Gallery Touring Programme, UK (2019-2020), 6th Biennial of Painting HDLU, Zagreb (2021), Salzberger Kunstverein (2017), and Vitamin P3: New Perspectives in Painting (published by Phaidon, 2016). Other important group exhibitions include Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin; National Gallery of Ireland; The Glucksman; Cork; Broad Art Museum, Michigan.
O’hEocha’s work is included in the collections of Irish Museum of Modern Art, National Gallery of Ireland, Hugh Lane Gallery, Trinity College Dublin, Arts Council of Ireland, Office of Public Works, AMC Collezione Coppola.
Recent residencies and awards include Moly-Sabata / Fondation Albert Gleizes, Sablons (2025); Arts Council of Ireland Project Award (2024); Internationale Künstlerhaus Villa Concordia, Bamberg (2024); Cité internationale des arts, Paris (2023); BigCi, Sydney (2016).
www.maireadoheocha.com
Michael Hill is Programme Curator at Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin, and one half of the curatorial team that represented Ireland at the 59th Venice Biennale 2022, and Irish Tour 2023. He is former Curator and Curatorial Assistant at The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin; and his independent curatorial projects include Weatherproof, Chicago; Dada Post, Berlin; and Pallas Projects, Dublin.
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