artist statement
My work explores coastal structures as liminal spaces where lived experience, memory, and emotion are felt in relation to landscape and atmosphere. Working across painting, photography, and printmaking, I draw on sensory attention and embodied observation to consider how we see, feel, and experience place.
Through layered, translucent, and luminous surfaces, I explore the interplay of material and emotional qualities as fluid and responsive, shaped through process.
The work invites slow looking, creating space for reflection on perception, presence, and our relationship with the natural world.
artist bio
Aisling Burke O’Connor is an Irish artist based in Limerick, working primarily in painting, alongside photography and printmaking. A graduate of Limerick School of Art & Design, her work is characterised by layered, translucent, and luminous surfaces developed through an intuitive, process-led approach. She has exhibited at The People’s Museum of Limerick and The Hunt Museum Café.
Curriculum Vitae
Education/training:
2025 - 2026: BA in Fine Art Painting, Limerick School of Art & Design
1997 - 2000: BA in Graphic Design, Limerick School of Art & Design
Selected solo exhibitions:
2025 - Is Breà Linn Ár Mbinse Gorma, Virtual Reality Gallery, Berlin
2025 - Coup D'oeil, The People’s Museum of Limerick, Limerick
2022 - Perspectives: Responses After Lockdown, The Treaty City Brewery, Limerick
2021 - The Right Thing: Responses to Lockdown, The Hunt Museum, Limerick
Selected group exhibitions:
2025 - Annual Open Exhibition, Súil Gallery, Ennis
2023 - Futuropia: A Vision of Tomorrow, touring exhibition (Ireland & Europe)
2023 - A Train from Sligo to Dublin - Part of the One of Many Project, The Belltable, Limerick
2020 - 2020 Vision, Outdoor Exhibition, People’s Park, Limerick
2019 - Poets & Painters Exhibition, CB1 Gallery, Limerick
Art fairs:
2023 - Art Source, Dublin
Selected collections:
PBC BioMed, Shannon
Fines Opticians, Limerick
Awards:
2025 - Limerick Creative Communities Small Grants Scheme 2025
2022 - Limerick City and County Council
2021 - Limerick City and County Council
Selected press:
2025 - Tara Cusack, The Limerick Leader
2025 - Richard Lynch, I Love Limerick
2022 - Jody Coffee, The Limerick Post
Professional membership/work:
2019 - : Visual Artists Ireland, Dublin
2024 - : Ormston House, Limerick
2024 - : Member of WISE: Artists & Older People Network, Dublin
2024 - 2025: MART Digital Membership Programme, MART Gallery & Studios, Dublin & Galway
2023 - 2024: Art Teacher & Facilitator, Art Club, Nicholas St., Limerick
2021 - 2021: Art Teacher & Facilitator, Athlunkard Nursing Home, Co. Clare