Deirdre O’Mahony has an impressive 30 year track record in making work across sculpture, painting, installation and participatory projects. At the centre of this work is her interest in the politics of landscape, rural/urban relationships, rural sustainability and food security. She has investigated the political ecology of rural places through public engagement, exhibitions, critical writing, and cultural production. From setting up community spaces amongst a charged local conflict to her large-scale paintings produced by tracing the shadows of boulders on Mullaghmore Mountain in the Burren National Park, she deftly consider the role of art in bringing together diverse communities, alternate forms of knowledge, embracing art as a critical space to help us see things differently.

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Image: Deirdre O’Mahony, The Quickening Production still (2023). Photography by Tom Flanagan. Commissioned by The Douglas Hyde Gallery of Contemporary Art, Dublin.