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Emma O’Hara

emmaohara123@gmail.com /emma_o_hara_
emmaohara123@gmail.com /emma_o_hara_
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I’m a visual artist based in Cork City, Ireland. Since graduating with honours in Print & Contemporary Practice from Limerick School of Art & Design (BA 2016) I received Cork Printmakers Studio Bursary Award(2016). I undertook a three‐month, Arts Council funded residency at Rimbun Dahan Arts Centre, Malaysia (2022). I’ve had solo exhibitions in Cork Printmakers Studio Gallery (2018), Hang Tough Gallery Dublin (2021), The Lord Mayor’s Pavilion Cork (2022) and SO Fine Art Editions Dublin (2023). I am a member of Cork Printmakers, the National Sculpture Factory and a studio holder at Sample Studios. My work has been acquired by prestigious collections including the OPW and the Crawford Art Gallery.

Emma
O'Hara

Rooted in escapism and personal ecology, my practice manifests through bold, colourful, abstracted dreamscapes realised through paper and clay. Layers of memory, expectation, and reality intersect—where what we once imagined, what we’ve built, and what we’re still figuring out collide.
Through expressive mark-making and fluid, abstract landscapes, I obscure the mundanity of daily life, evoking a dreamlike state of dissociation, longing, and reflection. My recent studio developments have shifted my practice towards exploring personal narratives and exploring the quiet frustrations of adulthood.
Feeling lost and overwhelmed yet seeking escape, my work becomes a reckoning—a space where imagination can thrive despite the constraints of modern society. It incorporates imagery that emerges from unconscious to conscious: memory, emotion, symbols, figures, and shapes that range from wholesome to sarcastic and resentful.
These layered visual languages become landscapes of contradiction and contemplation—expressions of what it means to be both present and elsewhere.

Emma O’Hara
Seek Me Out
2025
Emma O’Hara
Make House Play Pretend
2025
Emma O’Hara
Can't Touch The Fertility Tree
2025

Sample-Studios CLG is a non-profit organisation, incorporated as a company, limited by guarantee and not having a share capital.
Sample-Studios Ltd. is supported by The Arts Council of Ireland, Cork City Council, Rethink Ireland, Community Foundation Ireland, Business to Arts, and Cathedral Credit Union.

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