Augustine O’Donoghue

-Augustine O’ Donoghue is a visual artist based in Dublin. Her work engages with a range of local and global socio-political issues and is informed by her involvement in political activism. O’ Donoghue’s work has been widely presented in solo exhibitions, group shows and film screenings throughout Ireland – in venues such as the Crawford Art Gallery,Limerick City Gallery of Art and Project Arts Centre – and internationally, in countries as diverse as China, Brazil, Canada, USA, France and the UK. She has previously created interdisciplinary projects with diverse communities, including students, refugees, academics, migrant workers, travellers and social organisations across Ireland, Latin America and Africa.

Often working outside traditional gallery spaces, O’Donoghue focuses her artistic agency on the artwork’s embedded interrelationships with its specific locality and communities. In this way, artworks operate within and beyond the art world, thus making visible alterative economies of production and circulation. She has been guest lecturer and invited speaker at various third level institutions and was appointed Artist-in-Residence in the College of Engineering and Architecture at UCD 2020-21. O’Donoghue is codirector of Wexford Documentary Film Festival (est. 2009). She is currently developing a number of projects including public artwork commissioned by University College Cork and Aberystwyth University Wales and for Spectacular Vernacular project curated by Brendan Fox.