Lesley-Ann O Connell

Education

2014 | Masters in Fine Art Painting | National College of Art and Design, Dublin

2008 | BA Hons Degree in Fine Art Painting | National College of Art and Design, Dublin              

2004 | Art, Graphics and Printmaking | Ballyfermot College of Further Education, Dublin

Solo Exhibitions   

2022:  Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin 8

2019:  MIDNIGHT SWIM, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin 8

2015:  SURFACE IN MOTION, Pallas Projects/Studios, Dublin 8                  

Selected Two-Person

2009:  THE WANDERING IMAGE, w/ Sanja Todorovic, NCAD, Dublin 8

Selected Group Shows 

2021:  SURVEYOR, Solstice Arts Centre, Co. Meath

2020:  SURVEYOR, Solstice Arts Centre, Co. Meath

2019:  SILVER, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin 8

            SURVEYOR, Solstice Arts Centre, Co. Meath   

            IRISH ART NOW: CONTEMPOARY ART AUCTION IN SUPPORT OF PALLAS PROJECTS/STUDIOS, Dublin 2

2018:  CHRISTMAS SHOW, Custom House Studios, Co. Mayo

             ISLAND LIFE, Custom House Studios, Co. Mayo 

             ISLAND LIFE, Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, Dublin 8

             SURVEYOR, Solstice Arts Centre, Co. Meath

2017:  VISIBILITY, Dunamaise Arts Centre, Co. Laois  

             CLAREMORRIS OPEN EXHIBITION, Claremorris, Co. Mayo

             CAIRDE VISUAL, The Model, Sligo   

              SURVEYOR, Solstice Arts Centre, Co. Meath 

2016:  PALLAS PROJECTS/STUDIOS 20^TH ANNIVERSARY AUCTION, Dublin 2      

             SURVEYOR, Solstice Arts Centre, Co. Meath

             YOUNG, SO Fine Art Editions, Dublin 2 

2015:  EIGSE, Visual, Carlow       

             LACUNA, Taylor Gallery, Dublin 2     

             PANORAMA, Pallas Projects/Studios, Dublin 8                                 

             WET 15, Hive Emerging, Waterford         

2011:  VIS A VIS, Galway Arts Festival, The Niland Gallery, Galway                    

2010:  PRETTYVACANT, Ilac Shopping Centre, Dublin 1 

2008:  GRADUATES SHOW, Lemon Street Gallery, Dublin 2

Group Shows

2014:  MASTERS GRADUATE SHOW, NCAD, Dublin 7                          

             MOTLEY, Hendron’s Collider and Satellite, Dublin 1 

2013:  STRANGER STRANGER, The Complex, Dublin 7                                    

             FIRST AWAKE MOMENT, Pallas Contemporary Projects, Dublin 8

2011:  CHRISTMAS SHOW, Monstertruck Gallery, Dublin 2

2008:  DEGREE SHOW 08, NCAD, Dublin

Awards

2017 | Painting Prize Recipient | Claremorris Open, adjudicator Tom Morton, contributing editor, Frieze 

2008 | AXA Ireland Purchase Prize | NCAD Degree Show

Residencies

2023 | Joya Air, Almeria, Spain (forthcoming)

Collaboration 

2020:  Outside In, Instagram Takeover, Solstice Arts Centre

2019:  DHR Communications for CSR Ireland, The Liberties, Dublin 8

Text

2019: Midnight Swim, Ingrid Lyons https://www.kevinkavanagh.ie/exhibitions/14-lesley-ann-oconnell-midnight-swim/overview/

Features 

2020: Surveyor 2020, Catherine Marshall

2020: What Lies Beneath, Niall Mac Monagle, Sunday Independent

2015: Back to the De Lorean and on to the Future, Aidan Dunne, The Irish Times

2014: Who’d be an artist these days? Aidan Dunne, The Irish Times  

2014: See the Future MFA/ADW 2014, Barry Kehoe

2011: Making it all look simple in Galway, Aidan Dunne, The Irish Times

2009: Contradictions in an abandoned house, Aidan Dunne, The Irish Times 

2008: Graduating with Sophistication, Aidan Dunne, The Irish Times

Talks

2019: Kevin Kavanagh Gallery, in conversation with Kathy Tynan for Midnight Swim

2018: Custom House Studios and Gallery, artists in conversation with Kevin Kavanagh for Island Life

2013: Pallas Projects Studios, in conversation with Michael Hill, Ingrid Lyons and Kathy Tynan for First Awake Moment

Video

2019: DHR COMMUNICATIONS COLLABORATION

                https://youtu.be/Q8JQrXamPKM

Collections 

AXA Insurance Ireland 

OPW

IMPACT/ FORSA 

Private Collections