• Joy #5: a (sort of) retrospective exhibition by Deirdre O’Mahony consisting of an interview, found objects, artworks’ traces, ephemera, sounds.

    This is the fifth and final instalment of 17(joy) at Lombardi Kargl, Vienna, titled: ‘A (sort of) retrospective exhibition by Deirdre O’Mahony consisting of an interview, found objects, traces of artworks, ephemera and sounds’. “This is an amalgamation of the two art legacies that fascinate me the most: land-oriented practices and hardcore conceptualism, with a…

    April 19, 2026
    Art, Ecology, Everyday Life, Farming
  • Two people watching a large film with an image of two trees

    Rememory: the 25th Biennale of Sydney curated by Hoor Al Qasimi

    The 25th Biennale of Sydney is curated by Hoor Al Qasimi and connects the delicate space between remembering and forgetting. By engaging with Rememory, artists will highlight marginalised narratives, share untold stories, and inspire audiences to rethink how memory shapes identity, belonging, and the creation and celebration of new communities and connections. Deirdre O’Mahony’s film The Quickening is…

    April 19, 2026
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  • Upcoming Exhibition The Quickening

    The Douglas Hyde Gallery of Contemporary Art announces The Quickening, a powerful new artwork by ground-breaking artist Deirdre O’Mahony. Gallery 1 & 2 The Douglas Hyde Gallery of Contemporary Art, Trinity Collage, Dublin.   29.03.24 — 23.06.24 Bringing together urgent conversations, original music and moving image, The Quickening responds to issues facing farming, food production…

    March 23, 2024
    Art, Ecology, Farming, Food production
  • Two people performing a song on a riverbank

    The Song of the Farmer and the Dung Beetle

    A new work commissioned by Ecoshowboat called The Song of the Farmer and the Dung Beetle, was performed live on the shores of the Barrow by vocal artist and performer Siobhan Kavanagh and multidisciplinary artist Michelle Doyle. Deirdre has been engaging with farmers in the region, looking at soil health and regenerative agriculture as strategies…

    August 12, 2023
    Art, COLLABORATIVE ART, Ecology, Farming, Food production, Music, New Project, Performance

  • Field Exchange: MODEL PLOT

    In 2022, Brookfield Farm will play host to Field Exchange, one of 15 projects taking place all around the country that are being funded by the Creative Climate action fund through Creative Ireland. These projects will work with communities to empower people to make real changes about how they interact with the environment. In between,…

    November 15, 2021
    Farming, News

  • Awards 2021

    Deirdre O’Mahony’s artwork is supported by Visual Arts Bursary and Agility Award (2021) from the Arts Council of Ireland. She is also Parity Studios residency artist at the Earth Institute, University College Dublin and received the Fire Station Artist Studios 2021 Sculpture award.

    August 24, 2021
    News, Uncategorized

  • Sustainment Experiments: The Plot at VISUAL Carlow

    The PLOT at VISUAL Carlow is a new public artwork by Deirdre O’Mahony made with collaborators from The Loy Association of Ireland as part of the Sustainment Experiments project. Originally planted with potatoes, the plot is now sown with Sainfoin.  MORE

    May 27, 2021
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