Join us for an illustrated talk as part of the Basic Talks programme.
Join us for a talk with artist Sarah O’Brien. Sarah O’Brien (b. Cork, 1980) lives and works in Kinsale, Co.Cork. She is a graduate of the BA Painting in Crawford College of Art and Design, Cork, the MFA Painting from NCAD, Dublin, and the PgDip Third Level Learning and Teaching from DIT.
Her recent selected shows include: To Dawn Precious, Glovebox Dublin (2024), Stories of Art, Glucksman Gallery, UCC (2024), FRONTS/ BACKS, The Complex, Dublin (2023), WE CAN DANCE, West Cork, (2021), NEW LIGHT, Glucksman Gallery, UCC (2020), RHA OPEN 2020 (Invited Artist).
Sarah O’Brien’s work can be found in the collection of the OPW and has been funded by the Arts Council of Ireland as well as the RHA.
Sarah O’Brien’s studio research includes folk art, shamanic and ‘outsider’ art traditions.
Free, book or come on the day subject to availability.
Basic Talks is a series of talks with leading contemporary practitioners, taking place at the Hugh Lane Gallery. Curated by Basic Space in partnership with Hugh Lane Gallery, BASIC TALKS is a platform for lectures, workshops, presentations, and performances. Speakers include artists, curators, writers, and critics who will generate discourse on producing, framing and exhibiting art. BASIC TALKS is a collaboration between Basic Space and the Hugh Lane Gallery, exploring alternatives in the dissemination of contemporary art and its discourses.
