Biography
Ruth O’Donnell’s images, which have a contemplative quality, contain references to the interface of art, history, decoration, and narrative with her own life. Educated at NUI, Galway, and the Institut Saint Luc, Brussels, she is also a member of the Graphic Studio, Dublin. Her work has been widely exhibited in Ireland and internationally and she has recently been awarded a residency in the Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris for three months from January to March 2014.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2007 O’Donnell, Áras Éanna, Inis Oírr, Aran Islands
2006 Observations, Lemon Street Gallery, Dublin
2001 New Works, Graphic Studio Gallery, Dublin
Selected Exhibitions & Events
2023 Winter Exhibition, SO Fine Art Editions, Dublin
2022 St Brigid’s Well, Hamilton Gallery, Sligo
2021 Mews Art Gallery, Clogherhead, Co Louth
2021 The Art of Home, Graphic Studio with Simon communities of Ireland, CHQ Building, Dublin
2021 Diamond Point, Blue House Gallery, Schull, Co Cork
2020 Eilís Dillon: language, landscape & legacy Visual Arts Commission, Galway Public Libraries,
2020 A Delicate Blue, Dower House Gallery, Emo Court, Co Laois
2020 The Human Heart Graphic Studio Gallery, Dublin
2020 Among School Children, Hamilton Gallery, Sligo
2020 Eva Gore-Booth, Museum of Literature Ireland
2020 Small Wonders a set of 25 small watercolours for dlr Artworks Home
2020 60 Years of Graphic Studio Dublin, Hyde Bridge Gallery, Sligo
2020 Diamond Point, Graphic Studio Gallery, Dublin
2019 WSI Annual Exhibition, Farmleigh, Dublin
2019 Impressions 2019, Galway
2019 Discoverprint 19, Green Acres Gallery Wexford
2019 Sixth Silk Road International Art Exhibition, Xi’an, China
2019 Perfectly Ordinary, solo exhibition of new etchings, Graphic Studio Gallery, Dublin, and Hamilton Gallery, Sligo
2018 Masters of Contemporary Printmaking, Blue House Gallery, Schull
2018 Mór, Graphic Studio Gallery, Dublin
2018 True Grit, Graphic Studio Gallery, Dublin
2017 Interiors, Blue House Gallery, Schull
2017 Impressions 2017, Galway
2017 Summer Show, Graphic Studio Gallery
2017 Sarah Walker Gallery, Castletownbere
2017 WSI Annual Exhibition
2017 Another Bite of the Cherry, National Botanic Gardens (November) & Hamilton Gallery, Sligo (December)
2016 All is not lost, solo exhibition, Graphic Studio Gallery
2016 Waterbased, Glór, Ennis, Co Clare
2016 Blue House Gallery, Schull, Co Cork
2016 The Connacht Tribune Printworks, Galway
2015 Finders and Keepers, DLR Lexicon Gallery
2015 Water Colour Society of Ireland, Annual Exhibition, winner of the Adams Award
2015 Impressions 2015, Galway
2015 Summer Ensemble, Graphic Studio Gallery
2015 Talk on Sources of Inspiration, National Gallery of Ireland
2015 Session in the Gallery, Tradfest 2015, live printmaking and music event at Graphic Studio Gallery, Dublin with musician Nick Roth and sound artist Keith Lindsay
2014 Portes Ouvertes, Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris
2014 Amárach/Interplay, SO Fine Art Editions, South Anne Street, Dublin 2
2014 Summer Exhibition, Graphic Studio Gallery, Dublin
2013 A Natural Selection, National Botanic Gardens, Dublin
2013 Variations on a Theme, Graphic Studio Gallery
2013 WSI Annual Exhibition
2013 Strumpet City, Graphic Studio Gallery
2013 PRESSED, an exhibition of contemporary print, Dun Laoghaire
2013 DLR Open Submission, County Hall, Dun Laoghaire
2013Limerick Printmakers, Open Submission, Print Show
2013 33rd miniprint exhibition, Cadaqués, Spain
2012 WSI Annual Exhibition
2012 Festival Interceltique Lorient, France
2011 Bienal Internacional de Gravura, Santos, Brazil