BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES
Lives and works in Mayo in the West of Ireland

EDUCATION
1992 Dublin City University (BA Hons) Communication Studies
2009 (GMIT) Galway Mayo Institute of Technology BA Degree Art and Design

SELECTED GROUPS SHOWS
1992-2005 Mayo Artists Show, Linenhall Arts Centre, Castlebar Co.Mayo
1999 Wexford Artists Book, Festival Wexford Arts Centre
1999 C.O.E Claremorris Open Exhibition, Claremorris Co.Mayo
2005 Iontas, Sligo Art Gallery, Sligo
2006 8"x 8" Galway Civic Trust, Fisheries Tower, Galway
2006 Oscailt, Charlestown Arts Centre, Charlestown Co.Mayo
2006 The Vending Machine Project, Dublin Fringe Festival (Sept 12-29)
      See www.thevendingmachineproject.org for details
2006 mail art collaborative project with redfox press see links
2007 Catalyst Arts members show 29 Sept-12th October 2007, Belfast
2008 Allotments: members show - Catalyst Arts 8th May - 7th June - Belfast
2008 Badge art show - Mantua Art Project, Co. Roscommon 19th July - 8th August
www.myspace.com/badgeartshow
2008 Group show Town Hall Theatre, Kiltimagh, Co Mayo
21st-23rd November: Whatever One Loves...Is an installation of drawings
2009 126 - 8-31th January, Galway
2009 126 Catalyst Art Show - 3-19th February, Galway
2009 This must be the place: Artswap presented by monster truck gallery,
curated by Sally Timmons and Paul Murnaghan - Irish Museum of Contemporary Art, Dublin (April)
2009 Homemade, a show curated by the art, music and technology collective synth eastwood, Filmbase, Dublin (May 15th) www.syntheastwood.com
2009 GMIT Degree Show (July 15th-21st)
2009 Multiples cabinet (true + false) curated by artist Nina Tanis, Monster Truck Gallery, Francis St, Dublin (July 16th - August 28th) - www.monstertruck.ie
2009 (Group show) September 24th - October (2009) lost and found mayo county library castlebar

Member of V.A.I Visual Artists Ireland
126
Catalyst Arts Belfast

PUBLICATIONS
2009 Degree Show Catalogue

PUBLICATIONS
2008 Between Reality and the Imagination (the innerworld outside) Poetic form in visual art (thesis)

2009 (June) The Innerworld Outside, a book of drawings, self published artist's book in an edition of 50

AWARDS
Awarded a studio residency (early 2110) at custom house studio and gallery westport co.mayo

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

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
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