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Lisa O’Sullivan

lisa.osullivan@gmail.com /lisaosull_art
lisa.osullivan@gmail.com /lisaosull_art
About the member

Lisa O’Sullivan is a visual artist and musician based in Cork city. She is a recent graduate of MTU Crawford College of Art and Design with a First Class Honours in Fine Art. (2024) She works across a variety of media including Printmaking, Drawing, Sound, Video and photography.

Lisa was awarded a Crawford College of Art and Design Graduate Residency award in Drawing for 2024/2025. Other awards include Cork Printmakers Bursary Award for 2024/2025 Sample studios & Backwater graduate membership awards & MTU ‘Ar Scath a Chéile’ exhibition award. She was also longlisted for the RDS Visual Arts Graduate award.

Her work explores the interconnectedness between humans and nature through a lens of folklore & ritual. Her background as a musician is central to this investigation and she is interested in the potential outcomes of incorporating both elements into her practice.

Education

  • BA Hons Degree Fine Art – MTU Crawford College of Art & Design
  • Higher Diploma Irish Heritage Management – University College Cork
  • BA Hons Degree English Literature & History – University College Cork
Exhibitions

  • 2025 ‘Ar Scath a Chéile’ Graduate Group Show,  MTU James Barry Exhibition Centre
  • 2024 Sample Studios MTU Crawford College of Art & Design Graduate Showcase – Lord Mayor’s Pavillion, Fitgeralds Pk
  • 2024 MTU CCAD Lest We Salt the Earth – Degree Show
  • 2023 Cork Printmakers To The Power Of_ MTU CCAD – Printmaking Group Show
  • 2023 James Barry Exhibition Centre, MTU – Chrysalis – CCAD Third year Group Show

Lisa
O'Sullivan

Using elements of print, drawing, photography, sound, video & performance, my work draws inspiration from folklore and ritual. I am interested in mapping a territory where landscape, ceremonial acts and the marking of time meet, finding new resonances in old practices as a way to navigate the current climate and ecological crises.

My work looks at folklore & myth as a lens for exploring the metaphysical space between nature and humans. It considers how environmental and ecological collapse require urgent re-engagement with old forms of knowledge and wisdom in an effort to reimagine better ways of co-existence with nature. I examine how ritual and reconnection to the natural world during an unprecedented time of failing systems and global uncertainty, might act as tools of transformation. Central to the work is an investigation- questioning if re-enchantment with nature through folklore could be a potent agent for resistance, change and renewal.

Lisa O’Sullivan
Lisa O’Sullivan
Lisa O’Sullivan

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