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Artist statement

 

My work explores themes of location, land, time, geopolitics and the concept of labour across a variety of mediums including sculpture, installation and image making. My practice is particularly interested in the relationship between art and labour.

 

Location and materials heavily inform my practice. I unite these elements by using the landscape itself to make work, grinding rocks into pigments, paints and dyes. This transformation between states, from fixed landscape to fluid paint, really interests me. My work is rooted in an exploration of material, land and history; in what charges a space. The earth holds knowledge, stories and memories, and I see the rock I use as these moments solidified. By using these materials, I can invite the voices and experiences of the land into my work. 

 

Working with land means that ideas of ownership/belonging, division and environmental change are always in circulation. My work considers how landscapes are shaped, claimed, and reimagined, and always gives thought to the political, social and environmental histories of the material itself.

 

I have been primarily creating works from the Irish landscape, working with sites I know and connect with, with land that is charged with everything that has used it, cared for it and moved through it.

 

​Education

2024 - 2026, Turps Banana Studio Programme 2024/25/26, London.

 

2023-2024, Internship, Galeria Madragoa, Lisbon, PT.

 

2019-2023, First class honours BA (Hons) in Art, Institute of Art, Design and Technology, Dublin.

 

Awards

2023, IADT BA Art Student of the Year.

 

2023, IADT Pallas Projects Mentorship Award.

 

Collections

OPW State Collection

 

Upcoming Exhibitions

2026, Anaglypta 2026, Safehouse, London.

 

Group Exhibitions

2026, Herman's Autumn Exhibition, Herman's Gallery Dublin.

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2026, Turps Leavers exhibition 2026, Turps Gallery, London.

 

2026,  And I want a pony, AMP Gallery, London.

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2025, Spirit of Ireland Auction, Irish Arts Centre, New York.

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2025, Abstract Art, Open Gallery, Halifax.

 

2025, Hypernormalisation, Safe House, London.

 

2025, Land/Sea/Sky, Fronteer Gallery, Sheffield.

 

2025, A Hundredth Link in a Chain, Outhouse Gallery, London.

 

2024, Ardgillan Gallery Summer Exhibition, Ardgillan Castle, Dublin.

 

2024, ARTSFEST3, Arts For All, Belfast.

 

2023, MHC Annual Art Exhibition, Mason Hayes & Curran, Dublin.

 

2023, Small Things Like These, LHQ Gallery, Cork.​

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2023, Exchanges, Joint exhibition by Áine Osborne and Vanessa Zelek, DIVA, Dublin.

 

2023, On Show On Tour, Selection of work from graduate class of 2023 of IADT, Lexicon, Dublin.

 

2023, On Show, IADT Graduate exhibition, IADT, Dublin.

 

2023,  Tooth, curated by Annie Laing and Tilly Morris, DIVA, Dublin.

 

2023, In The Making, IADT student exhibition, Pallas Projects/Studios, Dublin.

 

2022, DIVA opening exhibition, curated by Annie Laing and Tilly Morris, DIVA, Dublin.

 

 2021, Dublin Art Book Fair 2021: Manual, curated by Lisa Godson, Temple Bar Gallery and Studios, Dublin. 

Áine Osborne is an Irish artist currently working between Dublin and London. She has completed a BA in Art in IADT with first class honours (2023), and is currently participating in the Turps Banana Studio Programme, London. The artist has always had an interest in materiality, storytelling and landscape. Áine’s work explores themes relating to the natural world, the passing of time and the relationship between art and labour. She explores these themes experimenting with scale, material and abstraction. The OPW State Collection has recently acquired work of Áines. Recent exhibitions include Hypernormalisation, Safe House (2025), Ardgillan Gallery Summer Exhibition, Ardgillan Castle (2024), MHC Annual Art Exhibition, Mason Hayes & Curran (2023), IADT student exhibition In the Making: Butter, Pallas Projects (2023) and, On Show, IADT (2023).