She was granted research fellowships at The British School at Rome and P.S.I. in New York. A two-year residency at Delfina Studios London in 1988 resulted in her permanent move there until 2002. She returned to live in Ireland, exhibits abroad and works on commissions for both public and private locations.
She has shown at the Venice, Paris and Sao Paolo Biennales and her small sculptures were shown at the Guggenheim Museum in Venice. In 2018 her outdoor sculptures will be shown at E1027 the home designed by Eileen Grey in Cap Martin, France.
Her work can be seen in several public locations in London, Cardiff, Newcastle, Bristol, Wolverhampton, Southampton, Milton Keynes, Dublin, Belfast, Dundalk, Mallow and Cork.
Other privately commissioned works can be seen at Lismore Castle in Ireland, Cass Sculpture Foundation, Chatsworth, Antony House in England and private gardens in France and Spain.
She is a founder director of the National Sculpture Factory in Cork, a former member of the Arts Council of Ireland, a member of Aosdána, and a member of the R.H.A.
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Ms. Eilis O'Connell |
The studio |
Beat them at their own game 1983 |
The Great Wall of Kinsale 1988 |
Secret Station 1992 |
Space Emptied Out 1994 |
Sharp Back 1997 |
Pero's Bridge Bristol, 1998 |
Resistance 1998 |
Carapace 1999 |
Unfurl 2000 |
Appetites of Gravity 2003 |
Edged Camarna 2004 |
Node 2004 |
Pellucid 2004 |
Each Day 2005 |
Five Vessels 2006 |
Slot 2006 |
Circuit 2008 |
Cone T 2009 |
Loop 2009 |
Morphwall 2009 |
Slope 2019 |
The Shape of a Pocket 2009 |
Wingblade 2010 |
Vortex 2011 |
Grown-Mode 2012 |
Apples & Atoms 2013 |
Cone W 2014 |
Billow 2015 |
Sacrificial Anode 2015 |
Curve to Point 2016 |
Carapace 2018 |
Coriolis 2018 |
Unfurl 2018 |
Flung Blue 2019 |
Curve to Point n.d. |
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