Eilís O'Connell

Eilís O'Connell was born in Derry, Northern Ireland, in 1953. She studied at Crawford School of Art, Cork (1970-74), Massachusetts College of Art, Boston (1974-75) and again at Crawford (1975-77). Her awards include those from the GPA for Emerging Artists (1981); the British School at Rome (Arts Council of Northern Ireland Fellowship, 1983-84); the PS1, New York (Arts Council Fellowship, 1987-88); and the Royal Society of Arts (1998). In 1996 she had sculpture residencies at the Centre du Sculpture, Montlieu, France, and Delfina Studios, Manilva, Spain. While O'Connell has exhibited widely, with numerous solo and group ...