Siobhán O’Callaghan is a Dublin-based artist. Her work centres around connection in various forms – shared experiences, intimacy, how we relate to our environment. She is mindful that the environments in which we live help people make sense of their belonging in a larger culture and community. Relationships and communication take centre stage in her paintings, drawings and sculptures, and the process of their making.
The artist moves in the space between the classical, representational artworld and the more conceptually-driven contemporary artworld. Through her practice she endeavours to create a conversation between these two – in her experience, sometimes disconnected and polarised – realms. Her work responds to the figurative tradition and considers what it is to carve out space in the canon as a woman.
Siobhán graduated from NCAD in 2015 with First Class Honours in Fine Art & Visual Culture. She continued her training at Florence Academy of Art. Exhibitions include Cumainn / We Gather, Ballaí Bána Gallery Belfast, RHA Annual Exhibition (2021, 2022, 2023), Utopia Dystopia, dlr Lexicon (2019), and Caoláit, Burren College of Art (2019). Her work is supported by the Arts Council, dlr Arts, and recently through a residency at Áras Éanna Arts Centre on Inis Oirr.
View all exhibition artwork below:
In Fabric I
Oil on canvas 40 x 40
In Fabric II
Oil on canvas 40 x 30
In Fabric III
Oil on canvas 60 x 50
Sitting in the Afternoon
Oil on canvas, framed 66 x 66
SOLD
Of Isabella II
Oil on canvas 70 x 70
Torso I
Oil on canvas 40 x 40
Of Andrea II
Oil on canvas 60 x 40
Of Isabella I
Oil on canvas 40 x 20
Mara
Oil on canvas 80 x 45
Shannice
Oil on canvas 90 x 45
Giclee Print, edition of 5, 85 x 42
Andrea
Charcoal and white chalk on
hand-toned paper
framed, 100 x 53
Fabiola
Charcoal on paper
framed, 97 x 50
Torso III
Charcoal on paper
framed, 35 x 25
Angelo
Charcoal and white chalk on
hand-toned paper
framed, 52 x 40
SOLD
Nicco
Charcoal on paper
framed, 40 x 28
SOLD
Torso II
Charcoal and white chalk on
hand-toned paper
framed, 38 x 40
Corner Reflections
Oil on canvas 100 x 110
Milkmaid
54 x 42cm unframed/74 x 61cm framed
charcoal and white chalk on hand-toned paper
Isabella
oil on canvas
90 x 45cm