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Cropped-Femme-Enfant. 2019. 143 x 143. Shortlisted Artist for the prestigious John O’Moore Painting Prize in 2019. Inspired by feminist and Surrealist themes. Created while studying with the Turps Painting School, London.
Sunken Dream. 2019. 150 x 2150. Selected for the RHA Summer Annual 2021. Exhibited in the RHA Gallery, Dublin,

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End of Transmission Drawings

Socially Aware Drawings & Paintings

A series of Drawings and Painting works
A series of Drawings and Painting works

Modular Painting

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Melissa O’Donnell is an interdisciplinary artist whose work examines the societal impact of powerful systems and institutional marginalisation through her practice research methodologies and artworks produced with a self-devised De:Coding Framework. By combining cognitive strategies with experimental processes, she explores how we perceive and respond to systemic issues and our navigation of contemporary life and powerful systems. Using repurposed materials, coded visuals, and moving image, her practice invites reflection, public awareness and re-engagement with dominant narratives. The practice seeks to find more positive ways to collaborate with new technologies that visualise research data and better serve societal urgencies and needs. Artworks and media include video, drawing, performance and painting installations.

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Exhibitions

* ongoing since

2026

RHA 196th Summer Annual

Selected Artist Summer Annual Exhibitions

2025

Solomon Arts Gallery, Dublin

Represented Artist, Summer, Spring, Winter Group Exhibitions 2022-2025

2025

Rua Red Arts Centre, Performance Event

'A Speculative Cybernetic Conversation' Artist Performer

2025

Contemporary Art Gallery of Ireland (CAGA)

Selected Artist, Solomon Gallery, Art Evolve

2024

Solomon Arts Gallery, Dublin

Represented Artist, Summer, Spring, Winter Group Exhibitions

2024

Arthology Collective 'Wake Art Event'

Immersive Site Group Exhibition / Artist Performer

2024

Sotheby’s London, Bond St.

Invited Artist & Public Artist Talk Event

2024

Solomon Arts Gallery, Dublin

Solo Exhibition, Painting

2024

Sotheby’s Exhibition RHA Dublin & Paris

Selected Contemporary Irish Artist

2023

Solomon Arts Gallery, Dublin

Represented Artist, Summer, Spring, Winter Group Exhibitions

2023

Sotheby’s RHA Dublin & Bond St Exhibition London

Selected Contemporary Irish Artist

2022

Solomon Arts Gallery, Dublin

Represented Artist, Summer, Spring, Winter Group Exhibitions

2022

RHA Ashford Gallery

'Turning It Over' Solo Painting Exhibition

2022

RHA, Group Exhibitions

Selected Artist Summer Annual Exhibitions

2021

John O'Moore Painting Prize

Short Listed Artist

2019

RHA, Group Exhibitions

Selected Artist

2019

Mermaid Arts Centre

Solo Exhibition, Drawing Works

2018

Signal Arts Centre

Solo Exhibition, Drawing Works

Education

2026

Creative Learning Professional Certificate

National College of Art and Design (NCAD), Dublin

2025

Postgraduate MFA Painting & contemporary methodologies (1st hons)

National College of Art and Design (NCAD), Dublin

2021

Turps Painting Programme

3 yr Painting Mentorship Studies

1992

Undergraduate Visual Arts

IADT, Dublin

Press

2023

Sunday Independent

Finding a Natural Refuge for Growth and Grieving

2022

The Visual Artists

Turning it Over

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