Daire O’Shea

Education

2012 - 2016

Limerick School of Art and Design - BA Sculpture & Combined Media 

2016 - 2017

University College Cork - MA Modern and Contemporary Art History, Criticism and Theory

2019 - 2020

Technical University Dublin - MA Professional Design Practice

2025 - present

Ulster University Belfast - PhD Candidate

Jobs

2018 - 2019

Lecturer in Art History and Adult Continuing Education Departments - University College Cork

2025 - 2026

Assistant Lecturer in Sculpture - Limerick School of Art and Design

2026 - present

Assistant Lecturer in Fine Art Practice - Crawford College of Art and Design

Solo/Collaborative Exhibitions

Hot Glue (I) - The Complex, Dublin, 2022

Hot Glue (II) - Platform Arts, Belfast, 2022

As She Climbed Across the Table - The Gallery at 46 Grand Parade (Crawford), Cork, 2019

The Materialists (in collaboration with Sophie Gogh) - 126 Gallery, Galway,  2018

If You Can’t Handle Me at My 2007 Gucci Mane, You don’t Deserve Me at My 2017 Gucci Mane - The Atrium, LSAD, Limerick,  2018

Framing Devices - Limerick City Gallery, Limerick, 2017

Selected Group Exhibitions

In:form - Uillinn West Cork Arts Centre, Skibbereen, 2024

Portals - Luan Gallery, Athlone, 2023

Páipéar - Hang Tough Contemporary, Dublin 2022

Quaranzine - Digital Exhibition, 2020

Winter Open - Rua Red, Dublin, 2018

Homo Ludens -The LIbrary Project, Dublin, 2018

2003 Called and it wants its Nokia Back - Kfest, Kerry, 2018

Soft (In collaboration with Jake Casey) - The Belltable, Limerick, 2017

Public Art Commissions

Luan Gallery Athlone, Westmeath County Council  - Commissioned Public Sculpture, 2023

Grafton Street Area Public Art Commission, Dublin City Council  - Shortlisted Artist, 2023

Published Writing

Helen Hughes Exhibition Essay - The Butler, Kilkenny

Knowldge of Reality: A Critical Response to Helen Hughes’ ‘finding the most forgiving element’

126 Gallery Unset in Stone (Book) 

The Materialists 

UCC MA Thesis 

Differential Specificity in Digital Art:  

A Re-Designing of Rosalind Krauss’ Theory of Differential  Specificity for the Digital Age 

Murze Magazine 

Minimalism in the age of speculative realism: A Radical  Re-Reading of Minimalist Artworks through the Lens of  Object-Oriented Ontology 

Headstuff.org 

Review: The Paradise of the Heart at TACTIC Gallery  

100% Biker 

Young Single, AJS 16 

TACTIC Gallery Exhibition Catalogue 

Ontonaut: A Critical Response to Concretus: Ulterior Objects an Exhibition by Sophie Gough 

Soft Zine 

This is You: Identity Construction in the Age of the Filter Bubble



Contact

E-mail: daire.oshea1@gmail.com

Instagram: @daireoshea