BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
Born in England
Lives and works in Mayo in the West of Ireland
Contact: queenjaneosullivan@gmail.com

EDUCATION
2009 BA Fine Art, Galway Mayo Institute of Technology (Castlebar campus)
1992 BA Hons Communication Studies, Dublin City University

SELECTED GROUPS SHOWS
2010 (Mar) The Tinderbox Picture Show, Filmbase, Curved St, Templebar, Dublin
2010 (Feb) M.A.S.S (Music, Art, Sights, Sounds), Tinderbox Creative Network
Hogan’s Pub, Georges St, Dublin
2009 (Dec) Mayo Artists Show, Selected by Veronica Bolay RHA Linenhall Arts Centre, Castlebar, Co Mayo
2009 (Dec) 2009 Miniature Art Exhibition, An Clachan Art Gallery, Gweedore, Co Donegal
2009 (Sept) Lost and Found, Group Show, Mayo County Library, Castlebar, Co Mayo
2009 (Oct) The Inspired Word, curated by Custom House Studios, Westport Arts Festival, Mc Gings Pub, Westport, Co Mayo
2009 (Aug/Sept) Temporary Arts Space Salon Show, The Piece Hall, Hallifax, UK, www.temporaryartspace.co.uk
2009 (Jul/Aug) Multiples cabinet (true + false) curated by artist Nina Tanis, Monster Truck Gallery, Francis St, Dublin, www.monstertruck.ie
2009 (July) GMIT Degree Show, St Mary’s Hall, GMIT, Castlebar Campus
2009 (May) Homemade, curated by Synth Eastwood, Filmbase, Dublin, www.syntheastwood.com
2009 (April) This Must be the Place: Artswap, curated by Sally Timmons & Paul Murnaghan, Monster Truck Gallery, Dublin
2009 (Feb) 126 Members Show, Catalyst Arts, Belfast
2009 (Jan) 126 Members Show, 126 Artists Space, Ballybane Industrial Estate, Galway
2008 (Nov) Whatever One Loves... an installation of drawings, Town Hall Theatre, Kiltimagh, Co Mayo
2008 (July) Badge Art Show, Mantua Art Project, Co Roscommon
www.myspace.com/badgeartshow

MEMBERSHIPS / CONTRIBUTOR

Tinderbox Creative Network www.tinderboxnetwork.blogspot.com
Visual Artists Ireland www.visualartists.ie

COLLECTIONS

Work held in private collections in Ireland, England and Europe.
Public: Mayo Co. Council, Castlebar Co. Mayo
        University College Hospital, Galway


WRITINGS / PUBLICATIONS

2010 Tinderbox zine
Tinderbox zine 2
The Tinderbox Picture Show
2009 Between Reality and the Imagination (The innerworld outside) Poetic form in
Visual Art, BA Fine Art Thesis
2009 Artist’s Book, Self Published (edition of 50)
Ongoing www.janeosullivan.blogspot.com (regularly updated art blog)
www.janeosullivan.com (undergoing reconstruction)
http://theconstantgatherer.blogspot.com/2010/02/jane-osullivan.html
http://hortusnoctis.blogspot.com/2010/03/jane-o-sullivan.html

ARTIST STATEMENT

                ‘the faculty of wonder, like curiosity, can make things     happen, it is time for wishful thinking to have its due’                                                       Marina Warner

 The aim of my work is to access an intimate space located somewhere between the personal and the worldly.

 To this investigation, I use as my starting point a large and ever changing collection of magical (to me) objects, such as old illustrated childrens books , whimsy including ceramic animals and dolls and popular and folk images. These inevitably get lost in the process of making something other from them, but prove as useful for reaching someplace else.

My work is full of an apparently personal symbolism and is rooted in a desire to communicate an increasingly fading space. The use of an intimate scale is a deliberate strategy.

Jane O'Sullivan
Go to BLOG for further illuminations . . .

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