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HELEN O'SULLIVAN-TYRRELL

(°London, 1968) is an Irish artist living in Belgium. She is an architect by training and studied painting and life drawing at the BKO (Beeldende Kunst Overijse) art academy. 

 

She was selected for the final of the BP Portrait Award 2015. She was among the finalists of the Belfius Art Prize 2014 and the Hennessy Portrait Prize 2014 and again in 2015.  (see video from 1:35)
 

Her work has been selected for the Royal Ulster Academy annual exhibitions in 2013, 2017 and 2018. Two of her paintings have been acquired by the Office of Public Works for the Irish State Art Collection. She is represented in Ireland by Solomon Fine Art in Dublin

 

"More in things than in people" is the first solo exhibition by
O'Sullivan-Tyrrell at the Green Door Gallery. With this series of small format oil paintings, most on wooden panel, the artist contemplates the objects we choose to surround ourselves with; how "their dogged and contrary existence" speak to our identities and how we curate, and even fabricate, our memories..

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