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
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