Discipline: Visual Art

Geraldine O'Reilly

Discipline: Visual Art
Region: Dublin, IRELAND
MacDowell Fellowships: 1991

Geraldine O'Reilly is a visual artist and printmaker. She is a graduate of the National College of Art and Design, Dublin. She was awarded a Fulbright scholarship to New York in 1989 to research Irish emigration to America for her exhibition “Journal.” She has had many solo exhibitions and shown in selected group exhibitions throughout Ireland, the U.S., Australia, France, Belgium, Sweden, England, and Poland. A former board member of Graphic Studio Dublin and elected chairperson in 2008. In 2004 she was elected to Aosdana for her contribution to the arts in Ireland. In October 2011 she was commissioned by Offaly County Council to produce artwork based on exploring the Grand Canal. She completed a commission for Dublin City Council Arts Office as part of their public art programme in January 2013. She was selected to make work for an exhibition celebrating 400 years of the Franciscans in Louvain, Belgium and Ireland’s presidency of the EU.

Studios

Mixter

Geraldine O'Reilly worked in the Mixter studio.

Built in 1927–1930, the Florence Kilpatrick Mixter Studio was funded by its namesake and designed by the architect F. Winsor, Jr., who also designed MacDowell's original Savidge Library in 1925. Mixter Studio, solidly built of yellow and grey-hued granite, once had sweeping views of Pack Monadnock to the east. The lush forest has now grown…

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