Pauline O’Connell

Pauline O'Connell is an Irish artist whose multidisciplinary practice spans theory, film, photography, sculpture, installation, text and sound. She studied sculpture and photography at IADT, graduating in 1993 and holds a first-class Master’s Degree from Limerick School of Art in Social Practice (2012). She is finishing her practice-led PhD at The University of Amsterdam, School of Heritage, Memory and Material Culture, The Netherlands with a thesis titled ‘Paradox Not Paradise, The Rural as Site of Representational Struggle’.

Throughout her thirty-year career, she has engaged with micro-histories and personal narratives, often presenting her projects within the communities and contexts from which they emerge. Her work aims to create spaces where new subjectivities can surface, bridging the gap between art and lived experience. These projects have been exhibited and commissioned nationally and internationally, in London, Paris, Vienna, throughout the USA, and in Ireland exhibited in galleries, fields, crossroads and community halls.