MARTINA O’SHEA

Born in Kerry, Ireland (1982)  lives and works in London 


EDUCATION

2023 City Lit, Award in Education and Teacher Training, City and Guilds level 3-4

2021  MA Fine Art, City and Guilds of London Art School, UK

2003  BA in Fine Art Painting, Limerick School of Art and Design, Ireland

2001  Academie Der Bildenden Kunste - Munchen, Germany


SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS / TWO-PERSON SHOWS

2023    Hard Drives Soft Walks at Chemist Gallery, London https://chemistgallery.com/Hard-Drives-Soft-Walks-1

GROUP EXHIBITIONS 

2025   Glitches, Blips and Bugs Vienna Contemporary Art Space

2025   Sanford Vitrine, notice board curatorial project, Deptford, London

2024  Southwark Park Galleries // Annual Open 2024

2023   Corpus, Hypha Studios, Farringdon, London https://hyphastudios.com/corpus-curated-by-yasmin-noorbakhsh-jennifer-nieuwland-and-ieva-ansaberga/

2021   MFA Degree Show, CGLAS London

2021 The Useful and Beautiful Project, William Morris Gallery

2021   This Year's Model, Studio 1.1 Gallery, London http://www.studio1-1.co.uk/past-shows-2021/

2021   Poem Atlas, Rhodes art gallery, Greece

2020   Life on Venus, The Tub, Hackney, London

2020   Model Village, The Swiss Church, Curated by Hot Desque- Lizzy Drury and  Neena Percy Covent Garden, London  https://www.hotdesque.xyz/model-village

2019   Salon 19, Four Corners Gallery, London

2019   Rough Print, North London Darkroom, London

2013   Over the Hill Lee Miller’s House, Farley Farm House, Sussex  https://www.farleyshouseandgallery.co.uk

2011   Mill-Co Project, Dalston, London

2009   Hop Skip, Hackney Wicked, London

2008   Space Invaders, Hackney Wicked, London

2003   BA degree show, LSAD, Ireland 

2001   Interm show, Academie Der Bildenden Kunste - Munchen, Germany


AWARDS/RESIDENCIES/COMMISSIONS/TUTORING

2024 - present Visiting Tutor, City and Guilds of London Art School, London

2023 - ongoing  Mentor for Arts Emergency  https://www.arts-emergency.org 

2018  London Creative Network, Four Corners, London https://spacestudios.org.uk/london-creative-network/ 

2017  Residency at Ljosmyndaskolinn, School of Photography in Reykjavik, Iceland

2001  Erasmus Scholarship Fund,Akademie der Bildenden Künste München 


PUBLICATIONS

2023  Hard Drives Soft Walks collaborative zine available at Chemist Gallery https://chemistgallery.com/ 


ARTICLES AND REVIEWS

2023 Hard Drives Soft Walks zine, available from https://shop.clairederouenbooks.com/

2022 Visual Poetry in the Anthropocene: Sculpting & Materialising Language as a Social, Ecological and Feminist Gesture - PHD thesis of Astra Papachristodoulou

2021 Text-Isles anthology (Guildford Poem Atlas)

CURATORIAL PROJECTS/TALKS/LECTURES/PERFORMANCES

2025   The Blue Rectangle - Pool Poetry, London Fields Lido (upcoming September)

2025   Collaborative performance with Sveta Grigorjeva for the European Poetry Festival -       The Poetry Society (upcoming June)

2025   Artist Talk for Masters students at City and Guilds of London Art School

2025   Sound performance at Bait West organised by White Noise, London

2025   TACO - RTM radion broadcast https://taco.org.uk/RTM

2024 Collaborative performance with Lisa Kiew at the Rich Mix, London

2023.  Collaborative dream performance with Agnes Scheidewind at the Rich Mix London      European Poetry Festival

2022   Artist Talk Foundation at City and Guilds of London Art School

 2021   Collaborative performance  with Vanessa Onwuemezi  https://www.amant.org/residents/17-vanessa-onwuemezi and Maria Celina Val https://mariacelinaval.com at The  European Poetry Festival, London

2017   Artist Talk at Ljosmyndaskolinn, Reykjavik, Iceland https://ljosmyndaskolinn.is

2013   Artist Talk at Photo Forum – www.photo-forum.org

2008   Curated Group show ‘Space Invaders’ for the first Hackney Wicked Festival

OTHER RELATED EXPERIENCE 

2023-2024   Guilder and Mosaicist at Mathew Bray and Matthew Collins 


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