Pauline O'Connell is an Irish artist whose multidisciplinary artistic research practice spans theory, film, photography, sculpture, installation, text & sound.

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Pauline O’Connell (b. Dublin 1971) is a visual artist/researcher, curator and educator based in rural County Kilkenny, Ireland and Amsterdam. She studied Fine Art, Mixed Media at Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art Design and Technology (1988-92), and received a 1st class M.A. in Social Practice and the Creative Environment at Limerick School of Art and Design (2012). She is completing a practice-led PhD at the University of Amsterdam, School of Heritage, Memory and Material Culture in 2026.

Her current project, From Hide to Heel (2025- 2027), is a Public Arts socially engaged film project - exploring the intertwined histories of Kilkenny’s agricultural (leather) and industrial
(shoemaking) sectors – commissioned by Kilkenny County Council for their 2024 - 2027 programme and is supported by The Arts Council of Ireland and the Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage.

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Pauline O'Connell is an Irish artist whose multidisciplinary artistic research practice spans theory, film, photography, sculpture, installation, text & sound.

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