Artist Biography
Seoidín O’Sullivan is an artist, educator, and interdisciplinary researcher whose collaborative practice brings communities together to protect and reimagine shared ecological commons. Working across a range of creative media, her work explores relationships between people, place, and more-than-human ecologies.
Grounded in participatory and socially engaged art methodologies, Seoidín collaborates with multidisciplinary teams to reveal hidden ecological systems, co-create collective imaginaries, and work towards just multi-species futures in the context of climate crisis. Her practice sits within the field of Critical Ecologies, using creative processes as tools for dialogue, care, and ecological action. Outputs include drawing, installation, video, publications, walks, and pedagogical exchange.
Seoidín lectures in Fine Art at the National College of Art and Design (NCAD), Dublin, where her teaching emphasises embodied practice, experiential learning, collective making, and critical engagement with place. At NCAD, she co-leads the Postgraduate Diploma in Art and Ecology, teaches Sustainable Exhibition Making with the Creative Futures Academy, and also lectures in Critical Cultures and First Year Studies.
Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally. Recent exhibitions include The Sky is Falling (Ormston House, 2024), Corncrake Dollar (EVA International, 2023), and Holdings (Solstice Arts Centre, 2023). In 2023, she was awarded an artist residency at Dún Laoghaire Baths, where she developed Sea Salon, a collective project inspired by the writings of Rachel Carson. She was also a contributor to Mapping Green Dublin (2022), a collaborative research and community mapping project with UCD Geography and Common Ground, focused on mapping Dublin’s urban tree canopy.
Seoidin grew up in Kitwe, Zambia, and later lived in Durban, South Africa, experiences that continue to inform her artistic practice and pedagogical approach. She completed a degree in Fine Art in Durban in 2000, followed by a Master’s in Fine Art at the National College of Art and Design, Dublin (2005–2007). She complemented postgraduate qualifications in Third Level Teaching and Learning (2010) and in International Development Studies (2004).
contact: seoidin(at)gmail.com
Art Practice
Current
2024: The Sky is Falling, Ormston House, Limerick, Ireland
2023: Holdings, Solstice Art Centre, Meath, Ireland
2023: Sea Salon, Dun Laoghaire Baths Studios, Ireland.
2023: CornCrake Dollar, The Gleaners Society, 40th EVA Internationale, Limerick, Ireland.
2022: CREX CREX Research Project with Corn Crake Life and Ormston House
2022: Artist Laboratory research project with Solstice Arts Centre.
2021: Radicle: Creative Ecologies Lab, Digital Hub artist Residency Award
2021: URBAN GRIT, with UCD Geography.
2020: Mapping Green Dublin, UCD Geography and Common Ground.
2020 PLOTS, Mapping Green Dublin with UCD Geography, EPA funded
2018 Next Generation Artist Bursary Award, Irish ArtsCouncil
2018 The Mothership Project, Arts Council Project Award
2017-2018 Hard/Graft: towards community orchards, Citizen Artist Award, Studio 468
2017 The Smart Museum, Chicago with Sweet Water Foundation recreation of Seating System
2017 The Tree Line Project, Making great Art Work Award, curated by Oonagh Young and Mary Cremin
2015 TULCA: Sea Change, County Education Commission: Orchard System
2015 Artist in resident with The Life Line Project funded by Dublin City Arts Office
2015 CONNECT Trinity college commission for evolution of 'Seating System' : Affinity Space
2015 Artist Armada, The South Docks Festival, Dublin
2014 The Quiet Rebel, performance for Site Work closing event curated by Jonathon Carroll
2014 Floating Dialogues, Forecast Commission for Graignemanagh town funded by Leader Partnership
2014 Sharing Architecture Project the redesign of a Bus Shelter working with CIT student Bus Users.
2014 Seeking The Village Art project with asylum seekers living in Direct Provision, Broadcast Gallery DIT
2014 Dialogues of the Possible group show, Mermaid Arts Centre
2013 Action All Areas group show at Irish Museum of Modern Art, Kilmainham
2013 ((O)) Clonlea Studio’s curated by Teresa Gillespie and Lee Welch
2013 The Producers collaboration with Graceland’s, Gradcam’s the food thing and SCR Community Garden
2013 Seating System IETM Festival, Project Arts Centre Gallery
2012 Seating System Dublin Art Book Fair, Temple Bar Gallery and Studio
2012 Field Work Exhibition, workshops and publication The Red Stables Gallery.
2012 Loose Structures The Drawing Project, IADT, Dun Laoghaire
2012 TRESPASS, Dublin Biennial, The Docklands
2011 ART 21, Inside the Artists Studio, TinT Gallery, Thessaloniki Greece
2011 The Beuysian Swimming Club, Essomenia, The Peoples Park, Dun Laoghaire
2010 Collective Dreaming a project I curated with artists responding to Community Garden, Exchange Gallery
2010 Mapping Flight Leitrim Sculpture Centre, Ireland
2010 TRESPASS (5 film works) TULCA Arts Festival ‘Living on the Edge’ Galway, Ireland
2009 TRESPASS exhibition at The LAB (5 March- 18 April 2009), Dublin, Ireland
2009 TACTIC at The LAB, March, Dublin, Ireland
2008 TRESPASS Minimal Gallery, Chaing Mai, Thailand
2008 TRESPASSThe White Space Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand
2007 SCR Community Garden Project: while artist in residence at Studio 468
2007 Not there, Here: NCAD MA show, The Digital Hub Dublin
Publications
2020 Hard/ Graft: Conversations on Planting a Commons with Ciaran Smyth published by Common Ground
2020 Earth Writings, Maynooth Geography
2019 The Mothership Project, Satellite Residency Findings
2019 Citizen Artist publication by Common Ground 2013 ‘Slow Visibility’ Artist Pages published by Fugitive Papers
2012 The Red Stables Summer School ‘Field Work’ published by Dublin City Council Arts Office
2011 ‘Collective Dreaming’ The Exchange Gallery published by The Exchange Gallery
2010 TRESPASS (Dublin Works) published by TRESPASS
2009 TRESPASS (works made while resident at The Land Foundation)
2006 Drawings for Artist Pages Book Project: Pallas Heights Studios, Dublin
Awards
2018 Next Generation Artist Bursary Award, Irish Arts Council
2017 Citizen Artist Residency Award with Studio 468, Common Ground
2017 Chicago Hyde Park Residency Award with IMMA and CREATE
2017 Irish Arts Council Project Award, The Mothership Project, toward Parent Friendly Residencies with Cow House Studios
2017 Artist Participation Bursary Award, Irish Arts Council
2017 Hyde Park Arts Centre, Chicago, International Artist Residency, supported by IMMA and Create
2016 Artist Bursary Award, Irish Arts Council
2015 Artist in The Neighbourhood Project funding, Dublin City Arts Office
2014 Cork Sharing Architecture: Bus Shelter Project
2013 Dun Laoghaire Arts Council Project Award
2012 Dun Laoghaire Arts Council Artist Bursary Award
2010 Arts Council Visual Artist Bursary Award
2010 CREATE Artist in Community Scheme Project Award ‘The Nomadic Mapping Project’
2009 Arts Council Project New Work Award, ‘TACTIC’
2008 Arts Council Participatory Bursary Award
2007 Arts Council New Work Project Award for ‘TRESPASS’
2007 Artist in the Community Research Award, CREATE/ Irish Arts Council
2000 Cum Laude in Fine Art, Natal Institute of Technology, Durban
Residencies
2017 Hyde Park International Residency Award, Chicago with IMMA, CREATE and Sweet Water Foundation
2017 Citizen Artist Award, Studio 468, Common Ground
2016 Residency at Irish Museum of Modern Art and Grizedale Arts http://www.grizedale.org/
2013 Studio 468, artist Residency Award
2010 Artist Studio Residency TBGS
2009 Artist Research Residency ‘Airfield Trust’
2009 Artist Incubation Space Award for‘TACTIC’ (art and activism), The LAB
2008 Artist Residency Award at Rikrit Tiravanija’s ‘The Land’, Thailand in July and August
2006 Studio 468, Artist Residency Award, Common Ground, Rialto