Lily O’Shea

Lily O’Shea is a visual artist based in Cork, working across sculpture, text, and performance. Through woodwork, Lily develops quasi-sculptural structures that evolve into immersive installations, incorporating video, performance, and reflective texts. Lily’s current work looks at a shifting rhythm of time in contemporary culture, defined by a growing sense of immediacy and uncertainty. This research explores different methods of survival in a fluctuating ideological structure, while emphasizing the need to reclaim and redefine our relationship with
time.

Since graduating from Crawford College of Art and Design in 2020, Lily has exhibited widely, including her debut solo exhibition slow puncture at The Lord Mayor’s Pavilion, Cork (2021). She has participated in residencies at Leitrim Sculpture Centre, The Guesthouse, Backwater Artists Group and 126 Gallery and Studios. Recent work has been featured in Bless The Corners of This House, Bloomers, Cork (2025); The Collision Project, screen service, Dublin (2024); DISTRO: The Reading Room with Muine Bheag Arts, Carlow (2024); and CCA
Introducing at the Centre for Contemporary Art, Derry (2024).

Lily is currently a studio member at Sample-Studios, Cork. Recent recipient of the Visual Arts Bursary 2024 and the Agility Award 2024 and was previously awarded the Creative Practitioner Bursary 2023 from Galway City Council