Eve O'Callaghan

Image of five paintings in a row on a white wall. Irregularly shaped steel frames with very light painted colours inside.

Eve O'Callaghan (b. 1996) is an Irish painter. She completed a BA in Painting and Visual Culture at the National College of Art and Design in Dublin in 2017. Since then, she has worked with and exhibited in several institutions, including Temple Bar Gallery and Studios and the Royal Hibernian Academy. Her work is held in State collections in Ireland and in private collections internationally.

Eve is the recipient of the Bourlet Fine Art Framers' Scholarship for 2022.

Image of studio wall: a shelf with pigments surrounded by sheets of paper with recipes written on each sheet

These paintings consider the structural and visual potential of the most basic elements of a painting: frame, surface and light. Taking cue from traditional material processes alongside a history of abstraction, I aim to question the space between what the artist can manipulate and what exists within the more primitive properties of the materials. These works ask the viewer to look closely and slowly at what lies both inside and outside the frame.