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Drawing is the basis of all my work.It is essential for finding, recording and working out ideas, discovering a subject in an almost tactile sense, as a means of reflection, experimentation and expression. I am currently developing new work in drawing and bronze sculpture. I’m motivated by curiosity and a carnivalesque sense of the world. That childhood feeling for the mysterious and imaginative possibilities of the mundane and commonplace, full of potential for transformation. My practice over the years has involved a variety of disciplines, including performance, set and costume design, digital media, film, animation. The breadth of these experiences and skills underpin the range of my practice and ambitions.Janet Mullarney's hybrid figures and her range of disciplines have informed some of my recent ideas. As has Kiki Smith’s sense of the body in relation to nature and mythology. At LSC I’m working on maquettes and mould making, for large scale sculptures.

Órlaith Cullinane, Hare on a Big Green Wave, Bronze and Stone, 50x35x35cm, 2022
Órlaith Cullinane, Hare on a Big Green Wave, Bronze and Stone, 50x35x35cm, 2022
Órlaith Cullinane, The Quickening of the Muse, work in progress, clay model for Armagh County Museum bronze sculpture proposal, 2023
Órlaith Cullinane, The Quickening of the Muse, work in progress, clay model for Armagh County Museum bronze sculpture proposal, 2023

Órlaith Cullinane began her graduate studies at Chelsea School of Art in London, has a BA Hons in Fine Art from Belfast School of Art, an MSc in Multimedia Systems from Trinity College Dublin and has undertaken extensive post-graduate training in painting, drawing and sculpture. She has been a member of Bridge Street Studios, Dundalk since 2015. She has received bursaries and awards from Arts Council Ireland, Arts Council NI, RHA, FE McWilliam Gallery, Louth County Council (Create Louth) and been awarded residencies in Iceland, France, Italy, Armagh County Museum and Tyrone Guthrie Centre, Annaghmakerrig. Orlaith has exhibited at the Royal Ulster Academy annual show, Belfast; the Cairde Open, Sligo; Society of Women Artists, Mall Galleries, London, and in group shows internationally and held solo shows at the Marketplace Arts Centre, Armagh and Armagh County Museum. Her work is held in private, public and corporate collections in Ireland, UK and USA and she has completed numerous private commissions.

Past Residencies