Maria’s practice engages with the constant development within the urban environment. Often working on large scale to emphasise the overwhelming sense of space, Maria uses many layers of different media and gestural mark-making to echo our densely complex and chaotic world.
Her work is continually changing and evolving generating a sense of energy that reflects our contemporary cities, using mainly collage, photo-shop, paint, ink, charcoal and graphite.
Through the work she aims to explore the relationships between built environments and the people and systems that inhabit them.
Her main interests are in constructivism, futurism, contemporary and historical social networks, complex patterns and mark-making.
Maria's work is represented by Agora Gallery, Chelsea NYC
Current Project
Maria is currently based in Venice where she was awarded a three-month residency with the ScuolaInternazionale di Grafica. She is focused on creating a new body of work which will discuss the uncertainty and indecision in life that ultimately leads us down different paths. This body of work will deal with the ambiguity of what has been and what is to come. She believes that in life people find themselves at certain crossroads, points of contemplation, and it is their resolutions in these situations that determines their individual existence and evolution. Her work is a complete reflection of her own personality, where each line is a record of her own state of mind, indecision, progression and intersecting thoughts: It is in a constant state of change.
2014 BA (Honors) degree in Fine Art Crawford College Cork.
2010 Art, Crafts and Design St. John’s College Cork.
2009 Leaving certificate Bruce College Cork.
· Photoshop workshop
· Powerpoint Presentation
· Print making course
· Sketchbook workshop
· Life Drawing course
2015 ‘Portals of Perception’ Agora Gallery, Chelsea NYC
2014 Group Exhibition The Doorway Gallery, Dublin
2014 Emerging Artist Exhibition St. Patrick’s University Hospital, Dublin
2014Annual Fledglings Exhibition Lavit Gallery, Cork
2014 ‘Cache of the seas’ Joan Clancy Summer Exhibition. AnRinn, Dungarvan.
2014 ‘Na hOibreacha’ CCAD Degree Show Crawford College, Cork
2013 ‘Are we there yet?‘Half Moon Street, Cork.
CIT Purchase Prize
Joan Clancy Summer Exhibition Award
ScuolaInternazionale di Grafica, Venice Italy (1 November,2014- 31 January, 2015)
Murray, Peter: “Among those names stand out are…Maria Catherine O’ Sullivan”,Irish Examiner; ‘Na hOibreacha’ Art Review, 11 June, 2014
Dunne, Aidan: “Maria O’ Sullivan’s seething, crowded cityscapes are Strong”, Irish Times; 21 June, 2014