Helen O’Shea
7 Sidneyville Bellevue Park North Cork T23DC1F Ireland
Mobile 353 87 2640649
Education
2019 - 2021
Masters of Arts by Research MTU Crawford College of Art and Design Cork
2016 - 2017
Contemporary Applied Art BA Honors Degree Crawford College of Art and Design Cork,
2009 - 2012
Fine Art Textiles Crawford College of Art and Design Special purpose award,
2007 - 2008
Professional Arts Course Coláiste Stiofáin Naofa FETAC 7,
2006 - 2007
Creative Textiles Course Coláiste Stiofáin Naofa, FETAC 6,
Prior to this date, I initially trained as a Chef then I worked for the City of Cork Vocational Education Committee as a Catering and Arts and Crafts tutor for 20 years.
Residencies
2017
Cill Rialaig Artists Village, Ballinskeillig Co. Kerry
2015
Textílsetur Íslands, Icelandic Textiles Center
2014
Crawford College of Art and Design, Mentoring Programme
Awards
2019
Future Makers Awards and Supports, DCCOI
2018
Faculty of Business and Humanities Postgraduate Scholarship 2018. CIT Crawford College Art and Design
2017
Shortlisted for RDS Crafts Award
Lavit Gallery Longlisted Visual Arts Award RDS
Morgan P Doyle Award
Cork Craft Design
Longlisted Visual Arts Award RDS
2015
Arts Council Travel and Training Grant
2014
Long Note Award CTN
2013
Highly Commended,Textile Design Braintree District Museum UK, by Mary Schooser.
Publications
2018
Irish Arts Review Spring 2018 p 62
2017
Crafts Magazine for Contemporary Craft Nov/Dec 2017 p.23
Selected exhibitions
2021
CONJURING FORM. PORTFOLIO: Critical Selection Doneralie House Curated by Alice Stori Liechenstine.
CRAFTING A DIFFERENCE represented by Ting-Ying Gallery at SoShiro Gallery London Curated by Brian Kennedy.
2020
BALANCING RELATIONS James Barry Exhibition Centre MTU
LAND OF SOME OTHER ORDER Lavit Gallery Curated by Paul McAree
2019
THREAD: Contemporary Textiles Rheged Center, Penrith, Cumbria
Art in the Anthropocene Long Hub Room Trinity Dublin
SeaFest Cork, Sea-Fisheries Protection Authority
2018
DIALOGUES THROUGH TIME placing contemporary craft in the context of the 18th Century Wildt’sches Haus in Basel. Curated by TRESOR’s Artistic Director Brian Kennedy
Identity Westival 2018 Westport
20 Triskel Church Cork
Tales Alliance Frances Cork
Myth Gallery Noorus, Tartu Estonia
2017
Discovery Tresor Contemporary Craft Fair Basel Switzerland.
SKIN NAHK ODA Travelling exhibition Tartu Estonia, Cork Ireland and Vilinus Lithuania.
Crossover Project Boras Sweden.
Emerge Cork Craft Month Wandesford Gallery.
Fledgelings Lavit Gallery Cork.
RDS Craft Awards.
2016
PLAY Cork Craft Month Wandesford Gallery Cork.
2015
Textílsetur Íslands, Icelandic Textiles Center Gallery, Blónduós Iceland.
Mentoring Programme residency with the Crawford College of Art and Design - Exhibition at the Wandesford Gallery Cork.
Scythia 7th Mini Textile Exhibition Ukraine.
2014
Legacy The Atrium City Hall Anglesea street Cork. Collaborative exhibition Chinese and Irish Artists.
Summer in Macroom Invited artists from Cork Textile Network in collaboration with Cork City Arts Office.
2013
Selected for Irish Wave 4, a range of Exhibitions in China curated by Fion Gunn.
Woven into Memory Selected for this collaboration between Blue Egg Gallery and Wexford Arts Center. The Power of Craft Wadensford Gallery, invited to respond to the collection in the Cork City Museum.
2012
OPENING Graduation group show Fine Art Textiles Crawford College of Art and Design.
Selected for Irish Wave 3, a range of Exhibitions in China...
Instruments of Pleasure National centre for the Performing Arts, Beijing.
Hidden Meanings Yan Chao Collection Gallery, Guomao, Beijing.
Telling Tales Irish Centre Shanghai, Shanghai.
Knit & Stitch RDS show grounds CTN retrospective Juried show.
2011
Then & Now Leahy and Associates Architects,4 Camden Quay Cork Group Show Juried by textile artist Deirdre Nelson.
Tread softly Cork Public Museum,CCOI (Crafts Council of IRELAND)Selected by Ann Mulrooney Curator of the National Craft Gallery.
2010
Movement and Repetition Stroud International Textiles Exhibition, The Subscription Rooms Stroud, England - Juried Show.