Jessica Daly is a visual artist from Westmeath, currently living in Dublin. Her work is concerned with absence, loss, and the fragility of memory.
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EDUCATION
2025 Master of Library & Information Studies, University College Dublin
2021 B.A. Fine Art Painting, National College of Art and Design
2020 Erasmus exchange, Academy of Fine Arts in Gdansk, Poland
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021 Forward and Back, Mullingar Columb Barracks. Supported by Westmeath Arts Council.
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2024 Conclude, Clancy Quay Studios
2023 Open House Europe Summit: Building Futures Together, Trienal de Arquitectura de Lisboa
2023 Sa Lár, Luan Gallery
2023 Culture Night Exhibition, Clancy Quay Studios
2023 Collective Residue: Off the Clock, Pallas Projects
2022 Westmeath Artists Support Award, Luan Gallery
2022 HALFTONE Print Fair, The Library Project
2022 Regrowing Collective: Pop-up Exhibition, Phoenix Park
2022 Ranelagh Arts Summer Exhibition, Ranelagh Arts
2022 New Beginnings, The LAB Gallery
2021 Positives: Painting in the Pandemic, online exhibition with NTMA Sports and Social Club
2020 Zacznijmy wszystko od nowa [Let’s start everything over], Gdansk Shipyard
AWARDS
2024 Agility Award, The Arts Council
2024 Westmeath County Council’s Creative Ireland Community Grant
2023 Edward James Foundation Short Course Bursary
2022 Thomas Dammann Junior Memorial Trust Award — research grant for project with Drawings and Prints Study Center at the Museum of Modern Art, New York
RESIDENCIES
2024 ART-NATURE Symposium Gabrovtsi, Bulgaria
2023 Clancy Quay Studio Residency, Dublin
2021 Printmaking residency, Stiwdio Maelor, Wales
2021 Graduate residency, Cathy Bacon’s studio, Cork
WRITTEN WORK AND PRESENTATIONS
2024 Interviews with guest artists at Gabrovtsi ART-NATURE Symposium
2024 ‘Conversations with Artists: Veliko Tarnovo’, magazine launched at Clancy Quay Studios with Sara Muthi and Denitsa Milusheva.
2022 ‘Abstract Painting Under Socialism: The Work of Peter Dochev’, presented at the 8th International Interdisciplinary Conference, Bulgarian Cultural Institute, Vienna
2022 The Spenser Spin, collaborative poetry with Jennifer Redmond, Unbound Projects
2022 ‘The AIP/Pages: Creative Web-Design for Online Exhibiting’, an essay responding to Pallas Project’s online, interactive artist pages
2021 Graduate Talks, Ormond Art Studios
2020 ‘Over Nature’, exhibition review commissioned by Luan Gallery
2020 ‘Crowded Thresholds’, exhibition review published by Circa Art Magazine
Collections
Kennedy Wilson
Private collections