About

BIO

Sophia O’Sullivan is a visual artist from Wicklow, based in Dublin, a member of Graphic Studio Dublin, and trained as a printmaker, graduating with an honours BA from the National College of Art and Design. 2019. Sophia's work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, with a practice focused on intaglio etching, collagraph, mono-print, and digital processes.

Awards include: The Stop Showcase Award from Outset Gallery (2023). Selected exhibitions include; The Stop, Galway (Solo), Graphic Studio Gallery, Royal Hibernian Academy, Royal Ulster Academy, Woolwich Contemporary London Outset Gallery, Studio 10, Charlemont Square, The Copper house Gallery, ‘Common Spaces’ 3fe (Solo).

ARTIST STATEMENT

Memory and personal recollection are central themes in her work. The act of remembering parallels the artistic process — both rely on our senses, intuition, and interpretation to reconstruct past experiences. Her work explores this interplay, drawing from impressionism’s ephemeral moments and abstraction’s conceptual depth.

Sophia’s work examines the relationship between transience and permanence. Through printmaking, she creates recollections, impressions, and abstractions of memories and lived experiences that evoke a deep connection to place and nature. Her prints serve as interpretations of fleeting moments — both internal and external — exploring sensory perception, memory, belonging, and the intersection of personal and collective experience.

Her process is highly experimental, involving a continuous, intuitive cycle of layering and reworking. Removal and reduction play a significant role, and her engagement with multi-plate etching reflects a desire to capture how memories can be vivid, fragmented, or reimagined—conveying the essence of what once was or what could have been.