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Darragh O’Connell

County Wexford

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Born Dublin, 1969
 

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Education

2025 Mentoring in RHA, Dublin with Hughie O’Donoghue

2018 / 2019 Foundation drawing, RHA school, Dublin

2017 RHA Master class with Cian McLoughlin

 

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Awards
2024 Shortlisted for AIB Portrait prize 2024, National Gallery, Dublin
2020 Winner of the Ireland-U.S. Council and Irish Arts Review portraiture award, RHA, Dublin
2018 Shortlisted for Zurich Portrait prize, National Gallery, Dublin
 

 

Selected group exhibitions

2025 AIB Portrait prize exhibition, Killarney House, Killarney, Co. Kerry
2024 AIB Portrait prize exhibition, National Gallery, Dublin
2022 RUA annual exhibition, Ulster Museum, Belfast
2020 Annual exhibition, RHA, Dublin
2018 Zurich Portrait prize exhibition, National Gallery, Dublin

 

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Artist residencies

2025 Residencies at Tyrone Guthrie Centre, County Monaghan
2024 Residency at Tyrone Guthrie Centre, County Monaghan
2019 Residency at Cill Rialaig artist retreat, Ballinskelligs, County Kerry

 

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Publications

Interview and article in Irish Independent, Painting those who are close to me is very important. I want to tell my sitter’s story, Niall McMonagle online publication 26th December 2024.

Interview and article in Sunday Independent, Three generations joined by a tender Masculinity, Niall McMonagle printed publication 29th December 2024

Interview and article in Irish Arts Review, Father and Son, Angela Griffith, Pages 56/57, Winter 2020 edition.